The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity

his volume of essays examines the question of copying and other forms of artistic imitation and emulation in relation to Greek and Roman art, focusing particularly on sculpture and painting in the Roman period. It goes beyond recent studies of the subject in bringing to bear the views of early modern, modern, and contemporary artists on matters of copying and imitation as well as an exceptionally wide array of traditional and current critical perspectiveshistoriographic, literary, technical, stylistic, iconographic, and museological, among others.