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Articulating the Antique
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2003-04-10
Date Submitted: 2002-10-16

Papers are invited for a conference session on the subject of 'Articulating the
Antique' at next year's annual conference of the Association of Art Historians
in London, United Kingdom, 10th-13th April.

This session considers the relationship between painting and the arrangement of
sculpture in pictorial space. What does the articulation of sculptural sources
in a painting reveal about the intentions of the artist, the expectations of
patrons and the general cultural situation? Such themes that might be explored
include the following: the array of sculpture in religious scenes such as the
baptism of Christ to communicate theological ideas; the use of relief sculpture
such as sarcophagi by painters to convey abstract ideas such as sleep and
death;
the relationship between classical literature such as Ovid and sculptural
figures in paintings; the relation between sculpture collections and figures in
paintings; the creation of a tradition of articulation of the antique from the
Renaissance through to Poussin, David and beyond. Papers are welcomed with
subject proposals relating to art of all periods.

Contact information:
David Packwood,
Dept of Continuing Education,
University of Warwick,
UK
0121 2360811
Email: david.packwoodtesco.net