Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo - Couverture souple

Bennett, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907804382 ISBN 13 : 9781907804380

Editeur : D Giles Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Volume two in the Cleveland Masterwork series, this book focuses on an original bronze figural sculpture by one of the most famous and influential sculptors of classical antiquity. Since Roman times Praxiteles' masterpiece has been known as the Lizard-Slayer. Yet collectors, scholars, and students have all puzzled over the meaning of the young Apollo killing a lizard. What could Praxiteles have had in mind? What was its original context? Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo shows that the answers to these long-standing questions are implicit in the bronze sculpture acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2004. Representing Apollo's victory over the Python, the triumph of order over disorder, the Cleveland Apollo is most likely the only surviving original sculpture by Praxiteles, and the only life-size Greek bronze that can be securely attributed to a Greek sculptor by name.

The author recounts the story of the acquisition and reveals the astonishing circumstances of its recovery: found on an East German estate where it had languished for decades in a ruined condition.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Bennett is the Cleveland Museum of Art's first Curator of Greek and Roman Art, a position he has held since 1998. He received his doctorate in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1994. His reinstallation of the Cleveland Museum of Art's permanent collection of ancient Near Eastern, Greek, pre-Roman, and Roman antiquities opened to the public in 2010. He is the co-editor, with Claire L. Lyons and Clemente Marconio, of Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome, 2013; co-editor with Aaron J. Paul of'Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily, 2002, and author of Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior-King, in Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Gregory Nagy (ed.),1997.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D Giles Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907804382
• ISBN 13: 9781907804380
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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