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From the Call for Papers and ArtHist.net (which includes the Call for Papers in German). . .

Visualizing Antiquity: On the Episteme of Early Modern Drawings and Prints — Part II: Find and Display / Fragment and Whole
Bildwerdung der Antike: Zur Episteme von Zeichnungen und Druckgrafiken der Frühen Neuzeit — II. Fund und Aufstellung / Fragment und Ganzes
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich, 31 January 2024

Organized by Ulrich Pfisterer, Cristina Ruggero, and Timo Strauch

Proposals due by 1 September 2023

Francesco Moratti, Egyptian Queen or Princess, watercolor and gouache (Paris: BnF, Dép. des Estampes et de Photogrqphie, FB-19-PET FOL, Fol. 1; gallica.bnf.fr).

The academy project Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, hosted at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (thesaurus.bbaw.de) and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich (zikg.eu), are organizing a series of colloquia in 2023–2024 on the topic Visualizing Antiquity: On the Episteme of Drawings and Prints in the Early Modern Period.

The significance of drawings and prints for ideas, research, and the circulation of knowledge about ancient artifacts, architecture, and images in Europe and neighboring areas from the late Middle Ages to the advent of photography in the mid-19th century will be examined. The second colloquium will explore how the various states and contexts of ancient objects, in the broadest sense, between their discovery and their ‘final’ display, were captured and documented in images. This concerns representations of diggings as well as of archaeological sites and the beginnings of excavation documentation as well as efforts to record fragmented find states and reconstructions. For ancient architecture (and certain sculptures), some of which have always been visible, the problem arises of how to deal with additions, alterations, missing parts, and how to evoke the original state. Which image media and image modes were chosen to face these challenges? Which aspects should be documented? And how do these antiquarian representations relate to other subject areas and visualization intentions? Later study days will focus on “Fake News? Fantasy Antiquities” and “Collectors, Artists, Scholars: Knowledge and Will in Collection Catalogs.”

Solicited for the second colloquium are papers in English, French, German, or Italian, 20 minutes in length, ideally combining case study and larger perspective. Publication in extended form is planned. Travel and hotel expenses (economy-class flight or train; 2 nights’ accommodation) will be reimbursed according to the Federal Law on Travel Expenses (BRKG). Proposals (max. 400 words) can be submitted until 1 September 2023, together with a short CV (max. 150 words) to thesaurus@bbaw.de keyword “Episteme II.”