Donner à voir l'Antiquité

Images play a key role in the reception of Antiquity in the modern era, but they can sometimes be quite confusing. This book focuses on various figurative representations of Antiquity between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Deliberately limiting itself to images closely linked to texts, it explores their purpose, genesis and circulation, as well as the methodologies that were invented at the time.

Depicting Antiquity (Donner à voir l’Antiquité) is the result of a symposium held at the Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes and discussions among researchers, museum and library curators, a multimedia project manager and a graphic designer.

All the contributions offer a critical approach to the images—both past and present—that mediate our understanding of Antiquity.