The horse and jockey from Artemision : a bronze equestrian monument of the Hellenistic period / Sean Hemingway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemingway, Seán.

Series:

Hellenistic culture and society ; 45.

Hellenistic culture and society ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bronze sculpture, Hellenistic.

Artemision bronze statues.

Equestrian statues--Greece.

Equestrian statues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1928, and again in 1937, parts of a large-scale bronze horse and nearly complete jockey were recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision in Greece, where they had gone down in a shipwreck. These original Hellenistic sculptures, known together as the ""Horse and Jockey Group from Artemision,"" are among the very few surviving bronze sculptures from antiquity. Seán Hemingway has been allowed by the National Museum in Athens to investigate the horse and jockey statuary group as no one ever has before, and in this book, combining archaeological and art historical methods of investigation, he pro

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Hellenistic Bronze Statuary: An Introduction; 2. An Early Underwater Rescue Excavation; 3. Technical Analysis; 4. Questions of Style and Identification; 5. Ancient Greek Horse Racing; 6. Conclusions; Appendix: Chemical Analysis and Metallographic Examination; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520928442

052092844X

OCLC:

475927288