Hellenistic Sculpture II: The Styles of ca. 200–100 B.C.: v. 2 (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) - Hardcover

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299167100 ISBN 13: 9780299167103

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000

Synopsis

The second century BCE is one of the most prolific periods in the production of Greek and Hellenistic art, but it is a period extremely vexing to scholars. Very few of the works traditionally cited as examples of this century's art can be dated with certainty, and those that plausibly belong to it reflect no general trends in function, iconography or style. In the second of Ridgway's three planned volumes on Hellenistic sculpture, she takes on the challenge of interpreting and dating the art of this complex and lively century. During this period, artistic production was stimulated by the encounter between Greece and Rome and fuelled by the desire of the kings of Pergamon to emulate the past glories of 5th-century Athens. Statuary in relief and in the round, often at monumental scale, was created in a variety of styles. Ridgway attempts to determine what can be securely considered to have been produced during the second century BCE. In the course of her exploration, she critically scrutinizes most of the best-known pieces of Greek sculpture, ultimately revealing a tentative but plausible picture of the artistic trends of 200-100 BCE.

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Review

""Hellenistic Sculpture II" is lucid, accessible even for relative beginners in the field, fully and meticulously documented, well illustrated, and marked throughout with those characteristic insights that mark the work of a true authority. Ridgway leads the reader, step by step, through the labyrinthine arguments of previous scholars, presents new information relevant for a reinterpretation, and then outlines carefully the results, often producing a whole new way of seeing familiar works." Richard Daniel De Puma, University of Iowa, series editor "

About the Author

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway is Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. An authority on Greek sculpture, she has written many books on the subject, including "Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles of ca. 331 200 B.C., Hellenistic Sculpture III: The Styles of ca. 100 31 B.C.," and "Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture," all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. She is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0299167100
• ISBN 13: 9780299167103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 456