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Title: From piece to whole : reconstructing Greco-Roman sculpture
Other Titles: Archaeological fragments and other sources of information
Authors: Bonanno, Anthony
Keywords: Malta -- Antiquities
Archeology -- Malta
Sculpture, Classical -- Conservation and restoration
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Heritage Malta Publishing
Citation: Bonanno, A. (2018). From piece to whole : reconstructing Greco-Roman sculpture. In M. Abdilla Cunningham & G. Vella (Eds.), Archaeological fragments and other sources of information (pp. 20-23). Malta: Heritage Malta Publishing.
Abstract: Although the medium I have chosen to discuss, sculpture, is an artistic one and involves by its own nature strong elements of aesthetics and iconography, I shall deal with it also from the archaeological perspective. This distinction between these two disciplines was brought to the fore in my mind by a recent article in an Italian archaeological magazine which commemorated a man who rightly deserves to be considered the founder of ancient Classical art history, namely, Johann Joachim Winkelmann (1717-1767). Winkelmann set down and published the first history of Greco-Roman art in 1764. The authors of the article declared him to be the first archaeologist and to have introduced the archaeological method in the study of ancient art. At first I found this attribution questionable since it is nowhere recorded that he was ever involved in archaeological field work, but then I realized that this attitude is, or was, quite standard in continental academic circles, as opposed to AngloSaxon ones. I should have known better since I had my professional training in both of them, having studied in the lstituto di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte Antica of the University of Palermo and at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/54092
ISBN: 9789993257530
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