Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: Drawing the Greek Vase

Editor list: Meyer, Caspar; Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia

Publication year: 2023

Pages: 167-186

ISBN: 978-0-19-285612-8

eISBN: 978-0-19-194642-4

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856128.003.0007

Title of series: Visual conversations in art and archaeology

Abstract: 

This chapter explores how the different approaches to illustrating Greek vases in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries impacted the study of ancient visual narrative. It examines the scholarly treatment and visual presentation of two vessels by the Meidias Painter and his circle in Adolf Furtwängler and Karl Reichhold’s seminal 1904 Hervorragende Vasenbilder. The discussion establishes how, in contrast to earlier documentations of these vessels, Furtwängler and Reichhold firmly emphasized in their texts and illustrations the materiality of the vessels as a support for the figure scenes. The analysis establishes how their approach fostered a concern with questions of form and style in subsequent studies. The chapter concludes by demonstrating how Furtwängler and Reichhold’s focus on classification and style prevented their contribution from fostering scholarship on Greek visual storytelling akin to the seminal works of Carl Robert and Franz Wickhoff. Despite the opportunities to use Reichhold’s illustrations to investigate narrative methods, the key parameters for analysing such narratives—namely, the relationship of space and time as they unfold across the painted clay surfaces—remained underappreciated for much of the twentieth century.

Harvard Citation style: Lorenz, K. (2023) Volume and Scale: Adolf Furtwängler and Karl Reichhold’s Hervorragende Vasenbilder and the Study of Visual Narrative on Late Fifth-Century Vases, in Meyer, C. and Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (eds.) Drawing the Greek Vase. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 167-186. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856128.003.0007

APA Citation style: Lorenz, K. (2023). Volume and Scale: Adolf Furtwängler and Karl Reichhold’s Hervorragende Vasenbilder and the Study of Visual Narrative on Late Fifth-Century Vases. In Meyer, C., & Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (Eds.), Drawing the Greek Vase (pp. 167-186). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856128.003.0007