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The Cesnola collection of Cypriot art : terracotta oil lamps / Christopher S. Lightfoot.
Penn Museum Library N611.C47 L54 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cesnola Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art), author.
- Lightfoot, C. S. (Chris S.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cesnola Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
- Terra-cotta sculpture, Cypriot--Catalogs.
- Terra-cotta sculpture, Cypriot.
- Lamps, Ancient--Cyprus--Catalogs.
- Lamps, Ancient.
- Terra-cotta sculpture--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.
- Terra-cotta sculpture.
- Lamps--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.
- Lamps.
- Cesnola Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art)--Catalogs.
- Cyprus.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 365 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Terracotta oil lamps
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
- Summary:
- This publication, the fourth in a series that meticulously catalogues works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's renowned Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art, focuses on the collection's 453 terracotta oil lamps dating from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Byzantine periods. The rich iconography on many of these common, everyday objects provides a rare look into daily life on Cyprus in antiquity and highlights the island's participation in Roman artistic and cultural production. Each lamp is illustrated, and the accompanying text addresses typology, decoration, and makers' marks on each of these objects. Although these small, utilitarian oil lamps are often overlooked in scholarly studies of the classical world, this close examination reveals their social, cultural, and artistic contexts, which provides new insights into art, craft, and trade in the ancient Mediterranean.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-365).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1588397246
- 9781588397249
- OCLC:
- 1184234320
- Publisher Number:
- 99988126484
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