Campus Units
World Languages and Cultures
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2-2017
Journal or Book Title
Classicisms
First Page
165
Last Page
170
Abstract
SCHOLARS HAVE sometimes defined classicism as a debate between copying and representation. Speaking of the French artist Nicolas Poussin, art historian Richard T. Neer claimed: "Copying is the death of art, because a Copy is not really a picture in Poussin's understanding of the term: lacking idealization or elevation, it is just the replication of Nature."1 For Poussin, the "most deplorable" example of this kind of copying is printmaking, considered here as the unthinking production of the original. 2 Poussin contrasts this to painting, which he claims has a literary and intellectual quality.
Copyright Owner
Smart Museum of Art
Copyright Date
2017
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Nemiroff, James M., "Piranesi's Imitation of the Classics" (2017). World Languages and Cultures Publications. 163.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs/163
Included in
Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity Commons, Classical Literature and Philology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, French and Francophone Literature Commons
Comments
This book chapter is published as Nemiroff, J.M. Piranesi's Imitation of the Classics in Classicisms, edited by Larry F. Norman and Anne Leonard, 2017. Posted with permission.