The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Terracotta Oil Lamps

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Terracotta Oil Lamps
Author: Christopher S. Lightfoot
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588397246

The fourth catalogue in a series that documents the renowned Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art, this book focuses on the collection’s 453 terracotta oil lamps dating from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Byzantine periods. The rich iconography on many of these common, everyday objects provides a rare look into daily life on Cyprus in antiquity and highlights the island’s participation in Roman artistic and cultural production. Each lamp is illustrated, and the accompanying text addresses typology, decoration, and makers’ marks on each of these objects that provide new insights into art, craft, and trade in the ancient Mediterranean.

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art
Author: Christopher S. Lightfoot
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2017-12-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588396576

The Cesnola Collection of antiquities from Cyprus preserves the island’s artistic traditions from prehistoric through Roman times and represents the first large group of ancient Mediterranean works to enter the museum’s collection. This publication which focuses on Ancient Glass and is the third volume in a series aimed at publishing the collection in its entirety. This catalogue contains descriptions and illustrations of 520 glass vessels and objects. Although the majority of the glass is Roman, the scope of the collection extends from the Late Bronze Age through the end of antiquity (ca. 1500 B.C.– A.D. 600). It is the first attempt in over a century to provide a detailed account of the ancient glass found on Cyprus by Cesnola.

Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research

Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research
Author: Vassos Karageorghis
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 3830981678

This book combines the papers of the conference 'Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research' which took place in May 2013. Organized by The Cypriot-German Cultural Association on the occasion of its 35th anniversary in collaboration with the Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the aim of the conference was to draw attention to the objects of the outstanding 'Cyprus Collection', which has been exhibited in a special gallery since the re-opening of the Neues Museum in 2009.