Drawing the Greek Vase

by Meyer, Caspar; Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia

• ISBN13: 9780192856128
• ISBN10: 019285612X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-09-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Caspar Meyer, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center, New York,Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews

Caspar Meyer is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. His research focuses on the cultural dynamics of craft production in the Aegean city states and among the mobile pastoralists of Eurasia. Another area of interest is the history of the instruments and media which archaeologists have developed to aid the transformation of artefacts into written explanations. He previously taught in London and held research fellowships at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris. He is editor of W86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture.


Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. She has published Truly beyond Wonders: Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios (OUP 2010) and many articles on religion, travel, and the body in the Greek world of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. She also works on the reception of Classical material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, and has edited The Classical Vase Transformed: Consumption, Reproduction, and Class in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (OUP 2020) with E. Hall.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
2. Why Drawing Still Matters: Connecting Hands and Minds in the Study of Greek Vases, Caspar Meyer
3. Winckelmann's Elegant Simplicity: From Three to Two Dimensions and Back Again, Amy C. Smith
4. The Graphic Medium and Artistic Style: Thomas Hope (1769-1831) and Two-Dimensional Encounters with Greek Vases, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
5. The Flattened Greek Vase, Milette Gaifman
6. Images of Greek Vases as a Basis for a Scientific Archaeology: Investigating the Archival Legacy of the Gerhard'scher Apparat's Drawings, Marie-Amélie Bernard
7. Volume and Scale: Adolf Furtwängler and Karl Reichhold's Hervorragende Vasenbilder and the Study of Visual Narrative on Late Fifth-Century Vases, Katharina Lorenz
8. Drawing as an Instrument of Connoisseurship: J. D. Beazley and his Late-Nineteenth-Century Forerunners, Athena Tsingarida
9. Drawing the Greek Vase: A British Museum Illustrator's Perspective, Kate Morton
10. Drawing vs Photography: On the Gains and Losses of Technical Innovation, Nikolaus Dietrich
11. The Use of Photographs in the Trade of Greek Vases, Vinnie Nørskov
12. Afterword, Caspar Meyer