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Additional authors

1. Daehner, Jens
2. Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.
3. Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy), host institution.
4. J. Paul Getty Museum, issuing body, host institution.
5. National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.

Description

1. 367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map; 30 cm

Subject

1. Bronze sculpture > Expertising > Exhibitions
2. Bronze sculpture, Hellenistic > Exhibitions
3. Portrait sculpture, Hellenistic > Exhibitions

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JQF 15-914

Note

1. "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 (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-355) and index.

Title

1. Power and pathos : bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world / edited by Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin.

Publisher

1. Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2015]

Copyright date

1. ©2015

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-355) and index.

Added author

1. Daehner, Jens, editor.
2. Lapatin, Kenneth D. S., editor.
3. Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy), host institution.
4. J. Paul Getty Museum, issuing body, host institution.
5. National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.

ISBN

1. 1606064398 (hardback)
2. 9781606064399 (hardback)
3. 9781606064405 (paperback)
4. 1606064401 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JQF 15-914