Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway , born in 1929 with Chieti (Italy) is an historian of art, specialist in the Greek Sculpture ancient.

Biography

Girl of an Italian officer, it passes her childhood in Ethiopia, where his/her father is stationed. After the Second world war, it follows traditional studies of letters to the Université of Messine where it obtains in 1953 its laurea - at the time, the highest university degree in Italy - in traditional letters. A Grant of Archéologie enables him to continue its studies with the Bryn Mawr College, in Pennsylvania, where it becomes the disciple of Rhys Carpenter. At the conclusion of sound M.A., it leaves to write its thesis on the antiquated sculpture with the American École of Athens. It supports its Ph.D in 1958 and returns as teaching in Bryn Mawr, where it will carry out most of its career. It obtains there in 1977 the pulpit Rhys Carpenter of Classical archeology and Eastern, which it holds until its retirement in 1997. In 1988, it obtains the gold medal of the American archaeological Institut.

She married in 1958 the doctor Henry W. Ridgway, of which she took the name.

Work

Brunilde Ridgway falls under the line of its mentor, Rhys Carpenter, follower of a questioning radical of the Meisterforschung or “seeks of the Master” who animates the history of Greek art since Adolf Furtwängler. Being based readily on the remark of Carpenter on the Greek sculpture, “anonymous product of an impersonal craft industry”, it estimates that the concept of personality artistic does not emerge in Occident before the 15th century. It also attacks the Kopienforschung (“research of the sources”) of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, which consists in finding a sculptor type through his Roman copies, while attempting to release the originality of the Roman sculptors. Rather skeptic with respect to the literary sources, it sticks to the stylistic analysis of works.

Recognized for the safety of its scholarship and the stimulating character of its analyzes, she was criticized, following the example Carpenter, for what one described as “devastating skepticism”, “systematic” or of revisionism.

Its principal works are:

Severe Style in Greek Sculpture , Princeton University Near, 1970.
The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture , Princeton University Near, 1977 (edition re-examined and increased in 1993).
Fifth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture , Princeton University Near, 1981.
“The State off Research in Ancient Art” in Art Bulletin , LXVIII (1986), p. 8-23.
Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture , University off Wisconsin Near, 1997.
Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles off Ca 331-200 BC , University off Wisconsin Near, 1990 Romance
Copies off Greek Sculpture: The Problem off the Originals , University off Michigan Near, 1994
Hellenistic Sculpture II: The Styles off Ca 200-100 BC , University off Wisconsin Near, 2000
Hellenistic Sculpture III: The Styles off Ca 100-31 BC , University off Wisconsin Near, 2002
Second Chance: Sculptural Greek Studies Revisited , University off Wisconsin Close, Pindar Near, 2004.

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