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Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002 hardcover, Faux-linnen bound with dustjacket, 241 pages + 249 illustrations, 28 x 23 cm. ENG text . As new. ISBN 9780198153115.
Composite statues of gold (chrysos), ivory (elephas), and other precious materials were the most celebrated artworks of classical antiquity. Greek and Latin authors leave no doubt that such images provided a centrepiece for religious and civic life and that vast sums were spent to produce them. A number of these statues were the creations of antiquity's most highly acclaimed artists: Polykleitos, Alkamenes, Leochares, and, of course, Pheidias, whose magnificent Zeus Olympios came to be ranked among the Seven Wonders of the World. Although a few individual images such as Pheidias' Athena Parthenos have been the subject of detailed scholarly analysis, chryselephantine statuary as a class, from the exquisite statuettes of Minoan Crete to the majestic temple images constructed by classical Greek city-states and imitated by the Romans, has not received comprehensive study since 1815. This book presents not only the ancient literary and epigraphical evidence for lost statues and examines representations of them in other media, but also assembles and analyses much-neglected physical survivals, elucidating throughout the innovative techniques, such as ivory-bending, employed in their production as well as the variety of social, religious, and political roles they played within the ancient societies that produced them.
Palmyra and the East
, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, xx + 181 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:103 b/w, 3 col., 6 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503598253.
Summary The ancient caravan city of Palmyra, although located in the Syrian Desert, was very much a cultural locus, a place where peoples, goods, and ideas met and mingled from as far afield as Europe to the west and India and China to the east. It was a city that stood balanced between the power of the Roman Empire to one side, and the Parthian Empire to the other. Yet despite the city's location at a cultural crossroads, and its greater proximity to Parthia than Rome, scholars focusing on Palmyra have traditionally focused on links with the west, while relatively little attention has been paid to the threads that wove a connection between Palmyra and regions further to the east. This edited volume seeks to address this lacuna in scholarship by offering an in-depth exploration of Palmyra's connections with its eastern neighbours in the first three centuries ad. The papers gathered here examine the city's art, architecture, and material finds, its languages and inscriptions, its political interactions, social life, and religious identity from a time when Palmyra was at the height of its powers in order to shed light on the city's own distinctive identity, as well as its close ? and often tense ? relationships with Parthia and beyond. Together, these contributions offer fascinating new insights into Palmyra's dynamic relationships with the regions to its east, as well as on how these influences underpinned and were diffused throughout Palmyrene culture. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction ? Palmyra and the East: Reassessing an Oasis City and its Cultural Relations KENNETH LAPATIN and RUBINA RAJA Part I. Language, History, and Trade 1. Language as Power: Aramaic at (and East of ) Palmyra CATHERINE E. BONESHO. 2. Palmyra's Maritime Trade KATIA SCH RLE 3. From Palmyra to India: How the East Was Won JEAN-BAPTISTE YON 4. Palmyra and the Sasanians in the Third Century AD TOURAJ DARYAEE 5. Zenobia and the East NATHANAEL J. ANDRADE 6. The Fate of Palmyra and the East after AD 273: A Few Remarks on Trade, Economy, and Connectivity in Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Period EMANUELE E. INTAGLIATA Part II. Art and Archaeology 7. Palmyrene Funerary Art between East and West: Reclining Women in Funerary Sculpture RUBINA RAJA 8. Ashurbanipal and the Reclining Banqueter in Palmyra MAURA K. HEYN 9. So-Called 'Servants' or 'Pages' in Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture FRED ALBERTSON 10. Notes on Some Palmyrene Religious Imagery TED KAIZER 11. A Palmyrene Child at Dura-Europos LISA R. BRODY 12. Edessa and the Sculpture of Greater North Mesopotamia in the Romano-Parthian Period MICHAEL BL MER Index
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015 Hardcover with dustjacket, 367 pages,illustr. 30 x 25 cm. ENG ISBN 9781606064399.
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.
