Antiquity in print: visualizing Greece in the eighteenth century

Preview   In this learned and wide-ranging book, Daniel Orrells provides a fascinating study of eighteenth-century representations of Greek art in print. The interest in Greek art and the construction of the classical Greek ideal in this period were not, Orrells shows, the result of a straightforward material turn, but emerged out of complicated debates … Continue reading Antiquity in print: visualizing Greece in the eighteenth century