Current approaches and new perspectives in Aegean iconography / edited by Fritz Blakolmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blakolmer, Fritz, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Aegis (Series) (Louvain, Belgium). Actes de colloques ; 18.

Aegis, actes de colloques ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Aegean.

Art, Classical--Aegean Sea.

Art, Classical.

Bronze age--Aegean Sea.

Bronze age.

Art, Minoan.

Art, Mycenaean.

mycenaean.

Mediterranean Sea--Aegean Sea.

Physical Description:

409 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Louvain-La-Neuve : Presses Universitaires de Louvain, [2020]

Summary:

In the archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age our approaches and methods of analysing and interpreting pictorial images have changed throughout recent decades, and the questions we pose to the iconographic material have increased in complexity. As a consequence, the aim of this volume is to present an overview of current trends and individual methodological attempts towards arriving at an adequate understanding of Minoan, Cycladic, and Mycenaean iconography. Scholars active in this field of research have each contributed an article on a specific artistic object, an individual image, or a group of artefacts and their iconography, in order to illustrate the methodology they use in dealing with Aegean images and their wider context. The focus lies on the presentation of new, previously unpublished or neglected material from recent or old excavations, new reconstructions and interpretations of long-known artistic objects as well as superordinate pictorial subjects. The contributions focus on prominent artistic media such as seal images (on seals, signet-rings, and sealings) and mural paintings yet also include other artistic genera such as metal inlay work, relief images, pictorial pottery, and terracotta figurines. This collection of 18 case studies provides a representative cross section that portrays up-to-date research on analysing and interpreting the iconography of the Aegean Bronze Age. This volume therefore makes visible current scholarly approaches and simultaneously provides new perspectives into Aegean iconography.

Contents:

The "Brilliant Child Prodigy" of the Eastern Mediterranean : An Introduction / Fritz Blakolmer

Reading the Phaistos Sealings : Taking the Textbook Approach of Iconographic Analysis / Janice L. Crowley

At the Dawn of Minoan Iconography : The 'Archivio di cretule' at MM II B Phaistos / Fritz Blakolmer

Narrative in Aegean Art : A Methodology of Identification and Interpretation / John G. Younger

Minoan Religious Architecture : Representation and Reality / Pietro Militello

Tylissians and Knossians : An Interactive Relationship : New Evidence on the Miniature Wall Paintings From Tylissos / Giorgos Rethemiotakis

A Lost Ritual Space in the Palace at Knossos : Re-contextualizing the Fresco of the 'Dancing Lady' / Ute Günkel-Maschek

Part of the Puzzle : Reconstituting Meaning in a Painted Plaster Fragment from Kea / Lyvia Morgan

A Minoan Riddle : Suggestions about the Religious Standard on a Fresco from Xeste 4, Akrotiri / Nanno Marinatos

Bird-demons in the Aegean Bronze Age : Their Nature and Relationship to Egypt and the Near East / Veronika Dubcová

The Ring of Nestor and the Quest for Authenticity / Andreas G. Vlachopoulos

Changing Views of Style and Iconography in Aegean Glyptic : A Case Study from the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris / Olga Krzyszkowska

Minoan and Minoanising Imagery : Myths and Realities / Irene Nikolakopoulou

An Early Mycenaean Wanax at Pylos? On Genii and Sun-Disks from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior / Sharon R. Stocker & Jack L. Davis

A Stag's Head Rhyton from Pylos : The Minoan Connection and the Mainland Spirit / Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki

Seal Iconography to the North of the Mycenaean World : LH III Seals from Mt Olympus, Pieria / Evangelia Tsangaraki

Dismounting Riders? Reconsidering Two Late Bronze Age Rider Scenes / Irini Papageorgiou

Iconography in Context : The Visual Elements of Aegean Art / Anne P. Chapin

The 'Death of the Painter' : Towards a Radical Archaeology of (Minoan) Images / Diamantis Panagiotopoulos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9782875589682

2875589687

OCLC:

1181993965

Publisher Number:

9782875589682