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Histart 192E

UG SEMINAR: POUSSIN AND ANTIQUITY (4 UNITS) Wednesdays 9:00-12:00 425 Doe, CCN 05586 Todd Olson

Early modern Europeans based the authority of their cultural, social, and political institutions on comparative examples found in ancient Greece and Rome. In addition to their selective rediscovery, translation and interpretation of ancient texts, Europeans from Paris to Colonial Mexico imagined themselves through the collection, exchange and display of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. Although revivalism often served the political, religious and social status quo, ancient pagan cult, Republic and Empire provided radically different models for competing social groups, at times inciting revolutionary change. Focusing on the seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin, this seminar will consider how artists were active interpreters of ancient art and material culture through their examination, reproduction and appropriation of excavated objects.

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