Selected Topics in Classical Art II: Perception and Reception of Greek and Roman Antiquity in Continental and Mediterranean Europe

Taking the principal artistic achievements of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman civilizations as its obvious point of departure, this lecture course is also intended to highlight the manifold manifestations of the pivotal impact of the Classical tradition on European architecture, sculpture and painting of the later periods. The specific content of the course – to be announced in advance prior to the beginning of the pertinent semester – is variable. Within the time frame of one academic year, it shall accordingly focus on a more narrowly defined topic selected by the lecturer from among several alternatives; a single semester's course may thus examine: ;(A) any Greek or Latin (classical or postclassical) literary or non-literary source text (or a series of textual testimonies) which demonstrably left a lasting mark on the past and present reception and perception of the Classical tradition in Western Europe; (B) one or more outstanding patrons of the arts, antiquarian scholars or collectors of antiquities; (C) a select number of typologically, stylistically or iconographically related paintings or sculptures with the underlying aim of comparing and critically assessing past and present methods and interpretive strategies of classical scholarship in the field of visual studies.

Reference Books for Basic Orientation
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture, ed. G. Campbell, I – II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. COBISS.SI-ID - 48273250
Künstlerlexikon der Antike, ed. R. Vollkommer & D. Vollkommer-Glökler, I – II. München: Saur, 2001 – 2004. COBIS.SI.ID- 19244386
The Classical Tradition, edd. Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most & Salvatore Settis. Cambridge, Mass. – London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. COBISS.SI-ID - 67860737

Sources and Documents:
Der Neue Overbeck: Die antiken Schriftquellen zu den bildenden Künsten der Griechen, ed. Sascha Kansteiner et al., I – V. Berlin – Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. COBISS.SI-ID - 55026786
J. J. POLLITT, The Art of Greece, 1400 – 31 B.C.: Sources and Documents, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. COBISS.SI-ID - 11823970 J. J. POLLITT, The Art of Rome, c. 753 B.C. – 337 A.D.: Sources and Documents, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. COBISS.SI-ID - 60265314

Special Topics: A Selection
LADENDORF, Heinz. Antikenstudium und Antikenkopie: Vorarbeiten zu einer Darstellung ihrer Bedeutung in der mittelalterlichen und neueren Zeit, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1958 (Abhandlungen der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, XLVI/2). COBISS.SI-ID - 39433216
POLLITT, J. J. The Ancient View of Greek Art: Criticism, History and Terminology. New Haven – London: Yale University Press, 1974. COBISS.SI-ID - 40290861 Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana, ed. Salvatore Settis, I – III. Torino: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1984 – 1986 (Biblioteca di storia dell'arte, Nuova serie, 1 – 3). COBISS.SI-ID – 164467203, COBISS.SI-ID – 90131459, COBISS.SI-ID - 90135555
Francis HASKELL – Nicholas PENNY, Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture : 1500 – 1900, New Haven – London: Yale University Press, 1990. COBISS.SI-ID - 335982
Jean SEZNEC, La survivance des dieux antiques: essai sur le rôle de la tradition mythologique dans l'humanisme et dans l'art de la Renaissance, Paris: Flammarion, 1980 (cf. IDEM, The Survival of the Pagan Gods: the Mythological Tradition and its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art, tr. Barbara F. Sessions, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). COBISS.SI-ID - 4905480