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»Wie man Skulpturen aufnehmen soll«
Der Beitrag der Antiquare im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
Since the years around 1500, there have been printed reproductions of ancient statues and other monuments of antiquity. After a long period of mainly investigating which works these prints represent, interest is now increasingly turning to how they do so.
This paper examines when and in what contexts ancient works began to be systematically reproduced from multiple views in the 16th and 17th centuries. The antiquarian, and not only the artistic, preoccupation with antique sculptures made a decisive contribution to 'multiple views' and 'documentary modes of representation'. Unusual antique works from Egypt, for example, or non-European figures of gods and 'idols' required innovative illustrations from several perspectives.
It was not until the 19th century that new forms of reproduction of sculpture were to be experimented with and their use discussed - right up to Heinrich Wölfflin's reflections on "how to photograph sculpture", which were geared towards photography.
