Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past: Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism

Author:   Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.668kg
ISBN:  

9780192845665


ISBN 10:   0192845667
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Introduction 1: 'A Neoclassical Dream and an Archaeologist's Nightmare': Piranesi's Colossal Candelabra in the Louvre and Ashmolean Museum 2: Candelabra in Antiquity, their Rediscovery, and Reception 3: Making Antiquity Materially Present 4: Animal Features 5: Animation, Immersion, and the Revival of Antiquity 6: Movement, Animation and Intentionality Conclusion: 'Antiquity is only now coming into Being'. The Origins of the Style Empire and the Turn towards the Object, 1770-1820.

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Caroline van Eck studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, and classics and philosophy at Leiden University. She obtained a PhD in aesthetics at the University of Amsterdam in 1994. She has held teaching positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Groningen, and Leiden, where she was appointed Professor of Art and Architectural History in 2006. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Warburg Institute and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art at Yale University, a Visiting Professor in Ghent, Yale, York, and the Ecole Normale Supérieur in Paris, and in 2018 held the Panofsky Chair at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. In September 2016, she was appointed Professor of Art History at the University of Cambridge. She delivered the 2017 Slade Lectures in Oxford.

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