Alexander Nagel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3867057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Nagel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Nagel |
| SIGNATURE | NAGEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0430-885X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Plaster Casts and Reproductions of West Asian Art in the United States National Museum and Washington, DC: A Short Essay on Displays, Histories, and Meanings
This contribution engages with the complex history of plaster casts and reproductions of ancient West Asian materials in the US capital. Information from archival collections and material repositories at the Smithsonian Institution, Catholic University, and other institutions in Washington, DC, is introduced as the author contextualizes their making and display. The author also explores how these artifacts have become commodities vulnerable to cu…
Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia
In this volume, Alexander Nagel investigates the use of polychromy in the art and architecture of ancient Iran. Focusing on Persepolis, he explores the topic within the context of the modern historiography of Achaemenid art and the scientific investigation of a range of works and monuments in Iran and in museums around the world. Nagel's study contextualizes scholarly efforts to retrieve aspects of ancient polychromies in Western Asia and interro…
An Achaemenid God in Color
A limestone relief fragment with a figure in a winged disk from the fifth-century BCE Hall of 100 Columns at Persepolis in southwestern Iran that entered the Harvard Art Museums’ collections in 1943 preserves significant traces of its original coloration and has played a key role in the rediscovery of polychromy at the Achaemenid Persian capital. After tracing the fragment’s journey to Cambridge, MA, this article presents the results of recent te…
Priests Come and Go
Raphael's global philosophy
Parmigianino's Madonna of the Rose: The revelation of the earth
"Alexander Nagel. Review of "The World between Empires: "Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East" by Blair Fowlkes-Childs and Michael Seymour
Amerasia: European Reflections of an Emergent World, 1492-ca. 1700
The association of America and Asia dominated the geographical imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492. Narratives and representations of myriad texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1450 and 1700 reveal a vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, South America was populated by a variety of biblical and Asian sites, and American cultural productions and ethnographic feat…
Color and Gilding in Achaemenid Architecture and Sculpture
This chapter explores the use of color and gilding on Achaemenid sculpture and architectural relief. The analytical methods used to detect microscopic traces of pigment and to analyze the composition of ancient pigments are described, as is the terminology of color in Elamite and Old Persian. The history of scholarship on color on Achaemenid monuments is reviewed, revealing that many instances of preserved pigment have been observed during the pa…
Robert Smithson removed from the source
Twenty-five notes on pseudoscript in Italian art
Anachronic Renaissance
Plural temporality of the work of art -- "The image of the image of Our Lady" -- What is substitution? -- An antique statue of Christ -- The plebeian pleasure of anachronism -- Architectural models -- Double origins of the Christian temple -- Icon maintenance -- Fashion in painting -- Ancient painting -- Substitution symbolized -- Author and acheiropoieton -- Antiquity of buildings overrated -- Non-actual histories of architecture -- Temples pain…
The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World
Michael W. Cole and Rebecca Zorach, eds. The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xix + 356 pp. + 1 color pl. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5290–8. - Volume 63 Issue 2
Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization
July 01 2010 Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization Barry Flood, Barry Flood FINBAR BARRY FLOOD is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar David Joselit, David Joselit Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alexander Nagel, Alexander Nagel ALEXANDER NAGEL is Prof…
Authorship and Image-Making in the Monument to Giotto in Florence Cathedral
Fashion and the Now-Time of Renaissance Art
Altarpiece
Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper
Unearthing the Past: Archeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture
In this rich and engaging book, Leonard Barkan tells the full cultural story of the emergence into daylight of the artworks of antiquity that had lain beneath Roman ground for more than a thousand years. As discovery and rebirth became literal daily narratives in the fifteenth century, Barkan shows, Renaissance conceptions of art, art history, aesthetics, and historiography were transformed
Jacopo Sansovino
It is
The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance
ralement la belle lecture de Ford.Enfin, à propos d'un passage de la p. 22, on me permettra cette remarque de philologue !Ford cite les v. 575-78 de V« Ode à Michel de 1' Hospital », où Ronsard parle du second groupe de poètes, ceux qui ont suivi les « poètes divins », comme Eumolpe, Musée, Orphée, Homère, etc. : « Par un art mélancolique / Trahissoyent avec grand soing / Leurs vers, esloignez bien loing / De la saincte ardeur antique.» « Trahiss…
The Self-Aware Image. An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting
Victor Stoichita. The Self-Aware Image. An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting. Trans. Anne-Marie Glasheen. (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv + 131 pls. + 364 pp. $85. ISBN: 0-521-43393-2. - Volume 52 Issue 3
Remembering the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome
"Titian's "Venus of Urbino
Studies in Art History," with the difference that those volumes have a generally larger focus on complexes and monumental works
Leonardo and sfumato
Twenty-five notes on pseudoscript in Italian art
Color and Gilding in Achaemenid Architecture and Sculpture
This chapter explores the use of color and gilding on Achaemenid sculpture and architectural relief. The analytical methods used to detect microscopic traces of pigment and to analyze the composition of ancient pigments are described, as is the terminology of color in Elamite and Old Persian. The history of scholarship on color on Achaemenid monuments is reviewed, revealing that many instances of preserved pigment have been observed during the pa…
Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization
July 01 2010 Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization Barry Flood, Barry Flood FINBAR BARRY FLOOD is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar David Joselit, David Joselit Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alexander Nagel, Alexander Nagel ALEXANDER NAGEL is Prof…
An Achaemenid God in Color
A limestone relief fragment with a figure in a winged disk from the fifth-century BCE Hall of 100 Columns at Persepolis in southwestern Iran that entered the Harvard Art Museums’ collections in 1943 preserves significant traces of its original coloration and has played a key role in the rediscovery of polychromy at the Achaemenid Persian capital. After tracing the fragment’s journey to Cambridge, MA, this article presents the results of recent te…
Leonardo and sfumato
Remembering the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome
"Titian's "Venus of Urbino
Studies in Art History," with the difference that those volumes have a generally larger focus on complexes and monumental works
The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance
ralement la belle lecture de Ford.Enfin, à propos d'un passage de la p. 22, on me permettra cette remarque de philologue !Ford cite les v. 575-78 de V« Ode à Michel de 1' Hospital », où Ronsard parle du second groupe de poètes, ceux qui ont suivi les « poètes divins », comme Eumolpe, Musée, Orphée, Homère, etc. : « Par un art mélancolique / Trahissoyent avec grand soing / Leurs vers, esloignez bien loing / De la saincte ardeur antique.» « Trahiss…
The Self-Aware Image. An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting
Victor Stoichita. The Self-Aware Image. An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting. Trans. Anne-Marie Glasheen. (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv + 131 pls. + 364 pp. $85. ISBN: 0-521-43393-2. - Volume 52 Issue 3
Unearthing the Past: Archeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture
In this rich and engaging book, Leonard Barkan tells the full cultural story of the emergence into daylight of the artworks of antiquity that had lain beneath Roman ground for more than a thousand years. As discovery and rebirth became literal daily narratives in the fifteenth century, Barkan shows, Renaissance conceptions of art, art history, aesthetics, and historiography were transformed
Jacopo Sansovino
It is
Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper
Altarpiece
Fashion and the Now-Time of Renaissance Art
Authorship and Image-Making in the Monument to Giotto in Florence Cathedral
Anachronic Renaissance
Plural temporality of the work of art -- "The image of the image of Our Lady" -- What is substitution? -- An antique statue of Christ -- The plebeian pleasure of anachronism -- Architectural models -- Double origins of the Christian temple -- Icon maintenance -- Fashion in painting -- Ancient painting -- Substitution symbolized -- Author and acheiropoieton -- Antiquity of buildings overrated -- Non-actual histories of architecture -- Temples pain…
The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World
Michael W. Cole and Rebecca Zorach, eds. The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xix + 356 pp. + 1 color pl. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5290–8. - Volume 63 Issue 2
Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization
July 01 2010 Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization Barry Flood, Barry Flood FINBAR BARRY FLOOD is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar David Joselit, David Joselit Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alexander Nagel, Alexander Nagel ALEXANDER NAGEL is Prof…
Twenty-five notes on pseudoscript in Italian art
Color and Gilding in Achaemenid Architecture and Sculpture
This chapter explores the use of color and gilding on Achaemenid sculpture and architectural relief. The analytical methods used to detect microscopic traces of pigment and to analyze the composition of ancient pigments are described, as is the terminology of color in Elamite and Old Persian. The history of scholarship on color on Achaemenid monuments is reviewed, revealing that many instances of preserved pigment have been observed during the pa…
Robert Smithson removed from the source
Amerasia: European Reflections of an Emergent World, 1492-ca. 1700
The association of America and Asia dominated the geographical imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492. Narratives and representations of myriad texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1450 and 1700 reveal a vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, South America was populated by a variety of biblical and Asian sites, and American cultural productions and ethnographic feat…
"Alexander Nagel. Review of "The World between Empires: "Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East" by Blair Fowlkes-Childs and Michael Seymour
Parmigianino's Madonna of the Rose: The revelation of the earth
Raphael's global philosophy
Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia
In this volume, Alexander Nagel investigates the use of polychromy in the art and architecture of ancient Iran. Focusing on Persepolis, he explores the topic within the context of the modern historiography of Achaemenid art and the scientific investigation of a range of works and monuments in Iran and in museums around the world. Nagel's study contextualizes scholarly efforts to retrieve aspects of ancient polychromies in Western Asia and interro…
An Achaemenid God in Color
A limestone relief fragment with a figure in a winged disk from the fifth-century BCE Hall of 100 Columns at Persepolis in southwestern Iran that entered the Harvard Art Museums’ collections in 1943 preserves significant traces of its original coloration and has played a key role in the rediscovery of polychromy at the Achaemenid Persian capital. After tracing the fragment’s journey to Cambridge, MA, this article presents the results of recent te…
Priests Come and Go
Plaster Casts and Reproductions of West Asian Art in the United States National Museum and Washington, DC: A Short Essay on Displays, Histories, and Meanings
This contribution engages with the complex history of plaster casts and reproductions of ancient West Asian materials in the US capital. Information from archival collections and material repositories at the Smithsonian Institution, Catholic University, and other institutions in Washington, DC, is introduced as the author contextualizes their making and display. The author also explores how these artifacts have become commodities vulnerable to cu…
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