[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture: December 3, 2013

Dimitri H. Gondicas gondicas at Princeton.EDU
Tue Nov 26 13:08:55 PST 2013




PRINCETON UNIVERSITY



Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies





Lecture





Patricia Fortini Brown

Department of Art and Archaeology


Between Observation and Appropriation:
Venetian Encounters with a Fragmentary Classical Past




Classical remains were typically available to Renaissance observers only as fragments -- imperfect, partial remnants of a lost civilization. Marble gods and goddesses survived without heads and arms, and a colonnade overgrown by fig trees, ivy and brambles was only a suggestion of a once-intact temple. This paper examines the representation of such fragments by travelers, artists, architects, and antiquarians in the early modern period and explores the range of meanings and interpretations afforded by their indeterminate, incomplete status.

Patricia Fortini Brown is Professor Emerita at Princeton University, where she taught in the Department of Art and Archaeology, 1983-2010, and served as chair, 1999-2005.  She has published extensively on the art and culture of Renaissance Venice.  Her books include Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio (1988); Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past (1996); Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (1997); and Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (2004).




Tuesday, December 3, 2013

4:30 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103



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