An Exhibition of Small Bronzes of the Ancient World
Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Bronzes, Ancient
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Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Bronzes, Ancient
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Bronze figurines, Ancient
ISBN : 089236176X
Historical and technical considerations in provenancing and collecting Greek, Etruscan, and Roman bronzes.
Author : J. Paul Getty Museum. Department of Antiquities
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Bronze figurines, Ancient
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1947
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Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Bronzes, Ancient
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Author : Jens M. Deahner
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606064398
For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic innovation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction. Power and Pathos is published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum from July 20 through November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from December 6, 2015, through March 20, 2016.
Author : Departments of Antiquities and Antiquies Conservation
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Carol C. Mattusch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801431821
Carol C. Mattusch discusses the dating of bronzes based on criteria of technique and style, and considers technical innovations in the art of portraiture. Most controversially, she offers evidence that Greek artists cast bronzes in series based on a single model.
Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 1947
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Author : Giovanni Colzani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110741741
Considerations about size and scale have always played a central role within Greek and Roman visual culture, deeply affecting sculptural production. Both Greeks and Romans, in particular, had a clear notion of “colossality” and were able to fully exploit its implications with sculpture in many different areas of social, cultural and religious life. Instead, despite their ubiquitous presence, an equal and contrary categorization for small size statues does not seem to have existed in Greek and Roman culture, leading one to wonder what were the ancient ways of conceptualizing sculptural representations in a format markedly smaller than “life-size.” Even in the context of modern scholarship on Classical Art, few notions appear to be as elusive as that of “small sculpture”, often treated with a certain degree of diffidence well summarized in the formula Klein, aber Kunst? In fact, a large and heterogeneous variety of objects corresponds to this definition: all kinds of small sculpture, from statuettes to miniatures, in a variety of materials including stone, bronze, and terracotta, associated with a great array of functions and contexts, and with extremely different levels of manufacture and patronage. It would be a major misunderstanding to think of these small sculptures in general as nothing more than a cheap and simplified alternative to larger scale statues. Compared with those, their peculiar format allowed for a wider range of choices, in terms, for example, of use of either cheap or extremely valuable materials (not only marble and bronze, but also gold and silver, ivory, hard stones, among others), methods of production (combining seriality and variation), modes of fruition (such as involving a degree of intimacy with the beholder, rather than staging an illusion of “presence”). Furthermore, their pervasive presence in both private and public spaces at many levels of Greek and Roman society presents us with a privileged point of view on the visual literacy of a large and varied public. Although very different in many respects, small-sized sculptures entertained often a rather ambivalent relationship with their larger counterparts, drawing from them at the same time schemes, forms and iconographies. By offering a fresh, new analysis of archaeological evidence and literary sources, through a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume helps to illuminate this rather complex dynamic and aims to contribute to a better understanding of the status of Greek and Roman small size sculpture within the general development of ancient art.