Archaeological, art-historical, and artistic approaches to classical antiquity. Viccy Coltman (ed.), Making Sense of Greek Art, University of Exeter Press, 2012

Making sense of Greek Art is a Festschrift in memory of John Betts containing papers by ten of his students and colleagues. Their papers on Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and nineteenth-century topics reveal a wide range of methodologies. Two papers focus on subjects that might be covered in a course on Greek art and archaeology: one evaluates votive offerings in the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (Nicki Waugh); and the other compares archaeological and art-historical approaches to the study of Greek vases (Zosia Archibald). Three are concerned with Etruscan and Roman works: an Etruscan reinterpretation of a Greek myth (Vedia Izzet); Hellenistic and Roman versions of Aphrodite holding a mirror (Shelley Hales); and early Augustan uses of Archaistic art (Christopher H. Hallett). The other five papers illustrate the uses of classical artefacts during the nineteenth century: classical elements in Jacques-Louis David’s paintings (Ed Lilley); display of antiquities in the library of an English country house (Viccy Coltman); Tanagra figurines in paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Jean-Léon Gérôme (Genevieve Liveley); Alma-Tadema’s drawings for a theatrical production of Hypatia (Michael Liversidge); and plaster casts of the Elgin marbles exhibited in the Greek court of the Crystal Palace (Kate Nichols).