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

Classical archaeology and art history have estab lished 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 or exemplum for the arts of both sculpture and painting around 1400. Biographical approaches as well as analyses of the topoi 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 a topos of the rediscovered categories of ancient techne.