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Unearthing the Past by Leonard Barkan

Unearthing the Past by Leonard Barkan. The Arch of Septimius Severus. Built in 203 For victories over the Parthians. The Arch of Septimius Severus debris and detritus from more than a thousand years. Torso Belvedere. Unearthed in the 1430s

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Unearthing the Past by Leonard Barkan

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  1. Unearthing the PastbyLeonard Barkan

  2. The Arch of Septimius Severus • Built in 203 • For victories over the Parthians

  3. The Arch of Septimius Severusdebris and detritusfrom more than athousand years

  4. Torso Belvedere • Unearthed in the 1430s • Early 1500s before it was recognized as a valuable work

  5. Torso Belvedere Sculptor: Apollonios, son of Nestor

  6. Tiber • Unearthed 1440s • Re-interred • Unearthed again in 1512

  7. Apollo Belvedere • Unearthed 1490 • Vatican Museum

  8. The Others “A trove of statues” were unearthed in September 1514. These depicted various wounded and dead soldiers.

  9. Two other [much copied] statues, however, not unearthedRome’s otherpopulation • Left is the Sleeping Ariadne • To the right is the Marble Faun by Praxiteles

  10. The Knowledge of Art History • Pliny (23 AD to August 25, 79) • Wrote Naturalis Historia • Died in Mt. Vesuvius eruption

  11. Mt. Vesuvius EruptionArtist’s rendering Actual View

  12. Other writers that were influenced by Pliny and that influenced the arrival of the Renaissance • Petrarch (1304) • Ghiberti (1378) • Alberti (1404) • Landino (1424) • Vasari (1511) Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

  13. Of the Unearthed, the Greatest:Laocoön“..superior toany paintingand anybronze”- Pliny

  14. Unearthing theLaocoön • Unearthed January 14, 1506 • Recognized by the famous architect, Giuliano da Sangallo • Also there were his son, Francesco, and Michelangelo

  15. Laocoön’s beginnings Pliny (improbably) attributed the work to three sculptors working together: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus

  16. Art and Language Ekphrases [The stories behind and descriptions of the artwork] and Tropes [The use of parts or poses of the artwork to represent the prior ekphrases in a future artwork]

  17. Ekphrasis of theLaocoön The sculpture shows the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents. Laocoön was killed after attempting to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse by striking it with a spear. The snakes were sent by Athena, and were interpreted by the Trojans as proof that the horse was a sacred object. Which, of course, meant doom for the city.

  18. Tropes Signs • Signifier • Signified Deconstruction

  19. FragmentsConnecting to the past • Pope Julius II asked Michelangelo to finish the Torso Belvedere and the Laocoön. • Michelangelo refused. • They are beautiful just the way they are. • Several of the works of Michelangelo are unfinished or defaced by him.

  20. Other Fragments Pasquino - unearthed in April, 1501

  21. Reconstructionsof the Laocoön • 1510 Donato Bramante and Raphael run a contest. • The winner was Jacopo Sansovino. • Baccio Bandinelli creates replica and does another arm. • 1532 Montorsoli executed an arm. • 1540 Could have been Michelangelo.

  22. Other Reconstructions Pasquino immediately became a place where dissent could be posted anonymously. Messages are usually written in first-person. At times the statue is dressed for festivals or to represent the target of the dissent. This is still done today.

  23. Re-assimilations Re-assimilations

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