The Originality of Kaschnitz
Year: 2014

Classical archaeology is a field associated more with incremental additions and emendations to a nearly universally known corpus of art and architecture than with bold flights of original thought. At the very least, Guido Kaschnitz made a mark in this tradition by analyzing ancient Roman portraiture as art instead of contenting himself with data for iconography, dates and places of origin. After first studying epigraphy and archaeology in his native Vienna under Eugen Bormann and Emil Reisch wit