Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture - A Series of Essays on the History of Art

Klappentext The influential study of Greek and Roman sculpture which introduced the Kopienkritic approach to the study of classical art history. Zusammenfassung Adolf Furtwängler (1853–1907) was a prominent German archaeologist and art historian. He is best known for developing the Kopienkritic approach to studying Roman sculpture, which dominated the study of classical sculpture in the twentieth century. He introduces this approach in this volume, first published in English in 1895. Inhaltsverzeichnis Author's preface; Editor's preface; Part I. Pheidias: 1. Discovery of the Lemnian Athena; 2. Site of the Lemnia on the Akropolis; 3. Comparison between Lemnia and Parthenos; 4. Analysis of the Lemnia; 5. Drapery and pose of the Lemnia; 6. Monuments related to Lemnia and to Parthenos; 7. The Olympian Zeus; 8. Other works related to the Lemnia; 9. Pheidias and his pupils, Alkamenes and Agorakritos; 10. The Dioscuri of Monte Cavallo, and the elder Praxiteles; 11. Pheidian influences in Sicily and Magna Graecia; Part II. Kresilas and Myron: 1. Literary and epigraphical evidence for the life of Kresilas; 2. The portrait of Perikles; 3. The Diitrephes; 5. The Amazon; 6. The Diomede; 7. The Medusa Rondanini; 8. Statue of an athlete at Petworth; 9. Relation of Kresilas to Myron; 10. Statues by Myron; 11. The 'Cassel Apollo'; 12. The Perseus; 13. Myronian female head; 14. The Munich Zeus and the first Aegive School; Part III. Polykleitos: 1. Historical and epigraphical evidence; 2. The Doryphoros; 3. The Diadumenos; 4. The Amazon; 5. The basis of the statue of Kyniskos; 6. The basis of the statue of Pythokles; 7. The basis of the statue of Xenokles; 8. The basis of the statue of Aristion; Skopas. Praxiteles. Euphranor: 1. Skopas; 2. Praxiteles; 3. Euphranor; Part IV. The Venus of Milo: 1. The lost inscribed fragment; 2. Restoration of the statue; 3. Influences that affected the artist of the 'Venus': The Apollo of the Belvedere; Appendix - the Temples of Athena on the Akropolis; Index....

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• Authors: Furtwangler Adolf, Adolf Furtw Ngler, Adolf Furtw¿ler, Adolf Furtwangler, Adolf Furtwängler
• Assisted by: Eugenie Strong (Translation), Strong Eugenie (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9781108017121
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01712-1
• No. of pages: 552
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, History of Art, Ancient World, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Greek style