Art and Archaelogy of Antiquity

and Archaeology of Antiquity Volume I see also: - Volume II - Volume III - Volume IV by Cornelius Vermeule 24 x 17 cm 604 pp. 285 illus. ISBN 1 899828 10 9 Cloth Bound Publication: 2001 Over the last fifty years Professor Cornelius Vermeule, formerly curator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, has consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost American authorities on Graeco-Roman art. His published work has covered the entire period from Mycenean to Byzantine art, and his papers have included studies of metalwork, sculpture, numismatics and the history of collecting. His studies have been particularly concerned however with Greek and Roman sculpture, especially that of the Roman Empire. These four volumes are designed to make available the most important of Professor Vermeule's contributions to periodicals. Volume I covers studies published between 1953 and 1964, and volume II continues the selection up to 1973. Volume III contains studies published between 1974 and 1984, and volume IV brings the selection up to 1995. Each volume has a new preface by Professor Vermeule and a comprehensive index. Vol. I Contents: Preface Sir John Soane, His Classical Antiquities A Fighting Warrior of the Greek Fifth Century Chariot Groups in Fifth Century Greek Sculpture Roman Cult Images on Coins of the Emperor Hadrian Classical Collections in British Country Houses Roman Numismatic Art, A.D. 200-400 Eastern Influences in Roman Numismatic Art A.D. 200-400 A Roman Lady of the First Century A.D. as Cybele Herakles Crowning Himself Aspects of Victoria on Roman Coins and Gems Aspects of Scientific Archaeology in the Seventeenth Century Socrates and Aspasia: New Portraits of Late Antiquity Greek Numismatic Art 400 B.C.-A.D. 300 An Equestrian Statue of Zeus The Portland Vase Before 1650 Achilles and Penthesilea A Portrait of the Emperor Hadrian Greek Art in Transition to Late Antiquity Two Masterpieces of Athenian Sculpture A Roman Silver Helmet in the Toledo Museum of Art Un aureo augusteo del magistrato monetario Cossusn Lentulus A Hellenistic Dancing Maenad from the Greek Islands or Asia Minor Antinous, Favorite of the Emperor Hadrian A Black-Figure Hydria by Psiax A Graeco-Roman Portrait of the Third Century A.D. and the Graeco-Asiatic Tradition in Imperial Portraiture from Gallienus to Diocletian Etruscan Leopards and Lions A Greek Goddess of the Fourth Century B.C. Egyptian Contributions to Late Imperial Portraiture Roman Sarcophagi in America: A Short Inventory Maximianus Herculeus and the Cubist Style in the Late Roman Empire, 295 to 310 A Ptolemaic Contribution Box in Boston The Colossus of Porto Raphti in Attica A Tondo Bust of Apollo Augustan and Julio-Claudian Court Silver A Collection of Greek and Roman Gems Index see also: - Volume II - Volume III - Volume IV Art and Archaeology of Antiquity Volume II see also: - Volume I - Volume III - Volume IV by Cornelius Vermeule 24 x 17 cm 478 pp. 282 illus. ISBN 1 899828 11 7 Cloth Bound Publication: 2001 Vol. II Contents: Preface Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections An Etruscan Zoo Revisited Aphrodisiaca: Satyr, Maenad and Eros Four Important Roman Imperial Sestertii: Trajan, Hadrian and Septimius Severus The Statue of the Damaskenos at the American School at Athens A Greek Theme and its Survivals: The Ruler's Shield in Tomb and Temple Cappadocia on the Eve of the Byzantine Empire Young Man on Horseback (500 B.C.) Classical Bronzes in Three American Museums Graeco-Roman Statues: I. Purpose and Setting II. Literary and Archaeological Evidence for the Display and Grouping of Graeco-Roman Sculpture Greek and Roman Art at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste The Basel Dog: A Vindication Lions: Attic and Related An Archaic Terra-cotta Rider A Greek Hero of Alexander the Great's Age Priapos and Maenad in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Three Imperial Portraits in America: Nero, Britannicus and Faustina II from Asia Minor Collectors of Greek Art

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