Power and pathos : bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world /

Corporate Authors: Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy), J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Other Authors: Daehner, Jens, Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Map with findspots of ancient bronzes
  • Essays. 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. I, Formulas of power : the image of the ruler
  • II, Flesh and bronze : bodies ideal and extreme
  • III, The new realism of the divine
  • IV, When Pathos became form : likeness and expression
  • V, Apoxyomenos and the art of replication
  • VI, Editions of the past : retrospective styles
  • Appendix. Alloy compositions of select bronze sculptures / prepared by Jeffrey Maish.