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| Author | : Carol C. Mattusch |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Carol C. Mattusch |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2019-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501746065 |
Freestanding bronze statuary was the primary mode of artistic expression in classical Greece, yet it was not until the nineteenth century that any original large statues of that period were unearthed. Although ancient literature has preserved information about the most famous Greek sculptors who worked in bronze, our perception of the art has been limited by the small number of extant originals from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. there remain fewer than ten large cast bronze statues, a like number of bronze heads, an assortment of fragments, and some clay molds for casting. Carol Mattusch enriches our knowledge of this beloved but elusive art form in a comprehensive study of the style and techniques of bronze statuary during the Archaic (6th century B.C.) and Classical (5th century B.C.) periods.
| Author | : Jens M. Deahner |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 18 |
| Release | : 2015-05-24 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Denys Eyre Lankester Haynes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Bronze sculpture |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Carol C. Mattusch |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2019-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 150173878X |
One of the world's leading authorities on ancient bronze sculpture, Carol C. Mattusch urges us to discard the terms "Greek original" and "Roman copy" and to adopt instead terms that distinguish unique works from those produced in series and those produced as variations on a theme. She 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. Mattusch points out that examples of series castings can be found among the statuettes and vessel attachments from the Geometric and Orientalizing periods. From the Classical period onward, statues also appear to have been cast in series. Certain styles and types of images that achieved widespread popularity during the Hellenistic and Roman periods were produced in large quantities and in several different places. This book will raise important new questions in the field of Classical bronze sculpture. How long might a single model remain in use and how far might casts from it be transported for production? What is the significance of an artist's signature on a work in a series and what influence was wielded by the potential buyer? And, given these issues, what should the criteria be for distinguishing Greek works from Roman ones? Classical Bronzes is generously illustrated, including an eight-page color insert.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Bronze figurines, Ancient |
| ISBN | : 089236176X |
Historical and technical considerations in provenancing and collecting Greek, Etruscan, and Roman bronzes.
| Author | : Kosmas A. Dafas |
| Publisher | : University of London Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Bronze sculpture, Greek |
| ISBN | : 9781905670673 |
This book presents a new study of Greek large-scale bronze statuary of the late Archaic and Classical periods. It examines the discovery, origin, style, date, artistic attribution, identification, and interpretation of the surviving bronzes, and focuses in particular on their technical features and casting techniques. It contains over 170 plates of photographs and drawings to illustrate its discussion. It also places the development of the casting techniques in connection with the stylistic evolution in Greek free-standing sculpture. During the Classical period, artists preferred bronze to marble when creating their contrapposto figures. Indisputably, bronze gave particular freedom to artists in creating three-dimensional figures. In addition, the evolution in style encouraged the development of the uses of bronze to serve the new needs and tendencies in sculpture during the late Archaic and especially the Classical period. Through the examination of how technical matters affect style, this book presents fresh interpretations of these important monuments of Greek art and offers a new approach in the field of Greek free-standing bronze sculpture.
| Author | : Caroline Houser |
| Publisher | : Conran Octopus |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mark D. Fullerton |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 609 |
| Release | : 2016-03-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1119115310 |
Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD. Compares the evolution of Greek sculpture over the centuries to works of contemporaneous Mediterranean civilizations Emphasizes looking closely at the stylistic features of Greek sculpture, illustrating these observations where possible with original works rather than copies Places the remarkable progress of stylistic changes that took place in Greek sculpture within a broader social and historical context Facilitates an understanding of why Greek monuments look the way they do and what ideas they were capable of expressing Focuses on the most recent interpretations of Greek sculptural works while considering the fragile and fragmentary evidence uncovered
| Author | : Caroline Houser |
| Publisher | : Garland Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
