Colloque : (Im)material Michelangelo: Toward a Visual Historiography of Sculpture – Between Reproduction and Art-Historical Enquiry, Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 25 mai 2021
Reproducing, representing, copying, or recording an artwork is the inevitable result of an interpretation, which can reveal some neglected aspects of the original model, as well as disguise or change many others. This is due both to the intentions of those involved in making or in requesting the copy or the reproduction and to the intrinsic difficulties of the ‘translation’ process from one medium to another. These problems are shared by ‘artistic’ copies as much...