Guide to the Pergamon Museum


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Guide to the Pergamon Museum


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Guide to the Pergamon Museum


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Guide to the Pergamon Museum


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Guide to the Pergamon Museum


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... reconstruction; the measurements give the correct size and proportion. Since the Museum in which the Altar was set up, serves as an exhibition place for other Pergamene examples, it was necessary to make a few deviations from the original. They are as follows: a broad stairway, two thirds of the width of the structure, is here cut out in the middle where new columns now support the platform and colonnade of the antique structure; the blank wall which here in the Museum stands immediately back of the row of columns at the top of the platform must, in fancy, be pushed back a meter and a half and be cut through with a number of doors. The frontispiece gives Richard Bohn's restoration of the altar. A great part of the foundation is all of the structure that is left on the original site. The plan of the altar is given above. The sacrificial altar proper, stood on the platform of a quadrangular substructure about 30 meters square, through which the broad stair-way cut and led to the sacred level. The frieze or high relief of the great altar ran around this substructure and along the wings of the stairway at a comparatively low altitude (the basis is 2,5 meters high). At the top of the frieze a bold cornice with wide mouldings projected from the platform. Above this quadrangular structure ran a colonnade of delicate Ionic columns, open like a portico on the outside and closed at the back. The court or room formed by its enclosing wall contained the sacrificial altar and was ornamented on the inside by a smaller frieze. The extant fragments of this second frieze representing scenes from the life of Telephos, the mythical founder of Pergamon, are set up in the Museum on the wall opposite the west side of the Great Altar. The colonnade which...




Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World


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The Hellenistic period—the nearly three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 B.C., and the suicide of the Egyptian queen Kleopatra VII (the famous "Cleopatra"), in 30 B.C.—is one of the most complex and exciting epochs of ancient Greek art. The unprecedented geographic sweep of Alexander's conquests changed the face of the ancient world forever, forging diverse cultural connections and exposing Greek artists to a host of new influences and artistic styles. This beautifully illustrated volume examines the rich diversity of art forms that arose through the patronage of the royal courts of the Hellenistic kingdoms, placing special emphasis on Pergamon, capital of the Attalid dynasty, which ruled over large parts of Asia Minor. With its long history of German-led excavations, Pergamon provides a superb paradigm of a Hellenistic capital, appointed with important civic institutions—a great library, theater, gymnasium, temples, and healing center—that we recognize today as central features of modern urban life. The military triumphs of Alexander and his successors led to the expansion of Greek culture out from the traditional Greek heartland to the Indus River Valley in the east and as far west as the Strait of Gibraltar. These newly established Hellenistic kingdoms concentrated wealth and power, resulting in an unparalleled burst of creativity in all the arts, from architecture and sculpture to seal engraving and glass production. Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World brings together the insights of a team of internationally renowned scholars, who reveal how the art of Classical Greece was transformed during this period, melding with predominantly Eastern cultural traditions to yield new standards and conventions in taste and style.