Daehner Jens Edited By (1 results)
Language: English
Published by J. Paul Getty Museum; Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Los Angeles and Dresden, 2007
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- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xiii, 178 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "About 1710, three life-size marble statues of women were found near Portici on the Bay of Naples. This discovery led to further exploratio…n of the site, which was soon identified as the ancient city of Herculaneum, one of the towns buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. The statues became famous throughout Europe as the 'Herculaneum Women.' First brought to Vienna, they have been in the Antiquities Collection in Dresden since 1736. This book presents for the first time in any language the comprehensive story of these famous statues, including their discovery, archaeological context, art history, interpretation, (an ongoing debate), and the impact of the Greek statuary types on representations of Roman women throughout the Mediterranean. No other models of the draped female body were used more often in Roman sculpture to carry individual portraits, including those of empresses, than the Large and Small Herculaneum Women." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Discovery and archaeological context, by Jens Daehner; From Herculaneum to Dresden: the modern history, by Kordelia Knoll; The large and small Herculaneum women sculptures, by Christiane Vorster; The statue types in the Roman world, by Jens Daehner; Greek origins: the Herculaneum women in the pre-Roman world, by Christiane Vorster; From the menagerie to the plaster gallery: the Herculaneum women in Dresden, by Moritz Woelk. Size: 4to. Collectible.
