| Description |
367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 30 cm |
| Note |
"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, on view at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from July 28 to November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art from December 6, 2015 to March 20, 2016"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-355) and index. |
| Contents |
Map with findspots of ancient bronzes -- Reframing Hellenistic bronze sculpture / Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin -- Why bronze? / Andrew Stewart -- Aletheia/Veritas: The new canon / Gianfranco Adornato -- Contexts of discovery / Seán Hemingway -- Hellenistic bronze sculptures from the Aegean Sea: Recent discoveries (1994-2009) / George Koutsouflakis and Angeliki Simosi -- Bronze sculpture in the Hellenistic East / Matthew P. Canepa -- Eikōn chalkē: Hellenistic statue honors in bronze / R.R.R. Smith -- Repeated images: Beauty with economy / Carol C. Mattusch -- Looking back: Archaic and classical bronzes of the Hellenistic and Roman periods / Christopher H. Hallett -- The color of bronze: Polychromy and the aesthetics of bronze surfaces / Sophie Descamps-Lequime -- Techno-Chronology? Alloy composition and the use of technical features for the dating of ancient bronzes / Alessandra Giumlia-Mair -- Catalog. Formulas of power : the image of the ruler ; Flesh and bronze : bodies ideal and extreme ; The new realism of the divine ; When pathos became form : likeness and expression ; Apoxyomenos and the art of replication ; Editions of the past : retrospective styles -- Alloy compositions of select bronze sculptures / prepared by Jeffrey Maish. |
| Subject |
Bronze sculpture, Hellenistic -- Exhibitions.
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Portrait sculpture, Hellenistic -- Exhibitions.
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Bronze sculpture -- Expertising -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Daehner, Jens, editor.
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Lapatin, Kenneth D. S., editor.
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Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy), host institution.
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J. Paul Getty Museum, issuing body, host institution.
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National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.
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| Added Title |
Bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world |
| ISBN |
1606064398 (hardback) |
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9781606064399 (hardback) |
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9781606064405 (paperback) |
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1606064401 (paperback) |
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