The beholder's tale : ancient sculpture, Renaissance narratives

Author

Barkan, Leonard

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Representations. 1993, Num. 44, 133-166, 8 ill.

ISSN

0734-6018

Abstract (en)

Asserts the importance of decipherment as a fundamental hermeneutic activity in relation to Renaissance visual culture, and examines the interpretation of ancient sculpture of unknown subjects in Italy in the 16th c. Focuses on the example of the Sleeping Ariadne (Rome, Vatican, Musei Vaticani), which was first called "Cleopatra" or "Sleeping Nymph," and received its present identification only in the 18th c.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Italy
• Sculpture
• Ancient [art]
• Culture
• Italy
• 1400-1600
• Interpretation
• Hermeneutics
• Ariadne
• Vaticano, Musei Vaticani||Roma (ITA)
• Renaissance
• Art

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Italie
• Sculpture
• Antique (art)
• Culture
• Italie
• 1400-1600
• Interprétation
• Herméneutique
• Ariane
• Vaticano, Musei Vaticani||Roma (ITA)
• Renaissance
• Art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00348818

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