Phidias und Polyklet im agon: Die neueren archäologischen und kunsthistorischen Forschungen zur Rezeption griechischer Bildhauer in der Renaissance

Abstract

Classical archiaeology and art history have established different methods when interpreting the interest in Polykleitos, Phidias, Lysippos and other Greek sculptors that emerged in late trecento humanism and art. After the art historian Julius von Schlosser had considered Ghiberti's reception of ancient sculpture as evidence for the rising of artistic individuality in the early Renaissance, the archaeologist Henning Wrede introduced the Greek sculptor as an authority orexemplum for the arts of both sculpture and painting around 1400. Biographical approaches as well as analyses of thetopoi of artistic skill can therefore be traced in recent scholarship. The review concludes that the early Renaissance does not understand the Greek sculptor as a biographical unity, but as atopos of the rediscovered categories of ancienttechne.