Attalos, Athens, and the Akropolis : the Pergamene "Little Barbarians" and their Roman and Renaissance legacy / Andrew Stewart ; with an essay on the pedestals and the Akropolis South Wall by Manolis Korres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Andrew F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marble sculpture, Roman--Expertising.

Marble sculpture, Roman.

Sculpture, Pergamene--Reproduction.

Sculpture, Pergamene.

Galatians in art.

Victory in art.

Reproduction.

Bergama (Turkey)--Antiquities.

Bergama (Turkey).

Acropolis (Athens, Greece).

Physical Description:

xxv, 358 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of folded plates : illustrations, map ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Summary:

This volume examines the "Little Barbarians," ten highly expressive Roman marble figures of Giants, Amazons, Persians, and Gauls that were found in Rome in 1514 and are now recognized as copies of the Small (or Lesser) Attalid Dedication on the Athenian Akropolis. Manolis Korres's recent discovery of the monument's pedestals, fully published in this volume, has led Andrew Stewart to a complete reconsideration of the statues' form, date, and significance. He demonstrates that this is the only Hellenistic royal donation of sculpture whose donor, location, and form are all known; the only one securely identified in copy; and the only one whose life can be glimpsed from beginning to end, a period ranging over 2,200 years. Illustrated with new photographs of all ten Barbarians and twenty-six new drawings by Manolis Korres, the book systematically traces the Barbarians' impact upon Roman and Renaissance art, and the intellectual history of art and archaeology.

Contents:

Some Important Dates xxiii

Little Barbarians: An Encounter 1

1 Rediscovery: Scholars, Sleuths, and Stones 11

1 Leake, Penrose, and Brunn 12

2 Excursus on Positivism 18

3 From Milchhofer to Bienkowski 23

4 From Lippold to Krahmer 43

5 Excursus on Formalism 62

6 In the Mirror of the Copies 66

7 Skeptics and Revisionists 69

8 Renaissance Echoes 75

9 Problems and Prospects 76

2 Appropriation: Gladiators for Christ 81

1 Discovery 81

2 Dispersal 86

3 Appropriation 94

4 Rome (I): Raphael 100

5 Rome (II): Peruzzi, Parmigianino, and Michelangelo 115

6 Venice (I): Sansovino, Titian, and Pordenone 120

7 Venice (II): Veronese and Tintoretto 127

8 Envoi 133

3 Reproduction: Vae Victis! 136

1 Date and Workshop 136

2 Provenance 142

3 Display 144

4 Fear and Loathing in Barbary 152

5 Beyond the Pale 160

6 Fatal Charades 163

7 Of Wounds 166

8 Roman Echoes? 170

9 Greek Echoes? 177

4 Genesis: Barbarians at the Gates 181

1 Location and Display 181

2 Iconography 198

3 Of Authors and Makers 213

4 Date(s) 218

5 Of History and Memory 220

6 For the Security of the City 226

7 Rhetoric 228

8 Responses 232

Conclusion. "The Truth in Sculpture" 237

1 Looking Backward 237

2 Looking Again 237

3 Looking Forward 239

Essay. The Pedestals and the Akropolis South Wall / Manolis Korres 242

1 Identification 242

2 Documentation 244

3 Classification 268

4 Arrangement of the Blocks 270

5 The Area to the South and East of the Parthenon 272

6 The South Wall 274

7 The Parapet 279

8 The Wide Summit of the Wall and the Unfinished Terracing 280

9 Position and Form of the Pedestals 281

Appendix 1 The Sources 287

Appendix 2 The Statues 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-343) and index.

ISBN:

0521831636

OCLC:

53287939

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