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The Derveni Krater: Masterpiece Of Classical Greek Metalwork (Ancient Art And Architecture In Context) - masterpiece of classical Greek metalwork - Beryl Barr-Sharrar
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2008)
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Bronzes, Greek, Vases, Classical, Vases, Greek

This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered. Found in an undisturbed Macedonian tomb of the late 4th century B.C., the volute krater is a tour de force of highly sophisticated methods of bronze working. An unusual program of iconography informs every area of the vessel. Snakes with copper and silver inlaid stripes frame the rising handles, wrapping their bodies around masks of underworld deities. On the shoulder sit four cast bronze figures: on one side a youthful Dionysos with an exhausted maenad, on the other a sleeping Silenos and a maenad handling a snake. In the major repoussé frieze on the body a bearded hunter is associated with Dionysian figures. What was the function of this extraordinary object? And what is the meaning of the intricate iconography? The krater is placed in its Macedonian archaeological context as an heirloom of the descendants of the man named in the Thessalian inscription on its rim, and in its art historical context as a highly elaborated, early 4th-century, version of a metal type known in Athens by about 470 B.C. Contains 47 color and 167 b/w illustrations.

Product Details
LoC Classification NK8000 .B37 2008
Dewey 739.5120938
Format Hardcover
Cover Price 75,00 €
No. of Pages 281
Height x Width 300 mm
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