Catalogue of Greek Terracottas in the British Museum Volume III
British Museum Press (Verlag)
978-0-7141-2221-2 (ISBN)
This catalogue, the first to be published in a generation, presents nearly a thousand of The British Museum's extensive collection of ancient Greek terracottas. The sequel to volumes 1 and 2 of the Catalogue, which cover the Archaic and Classical periods, it presents Hellenic terracotta figures from most areas of the Mediterranean apart from southern Italy and Sicily. The general introduction outlines general questions of the evolution of artistic styles, techniques and functions of Hellenistic terracottas. In the catalogue the figures are grouped into seven major geographic areas according to their known or probable place of production, and further subdivided as appropriate. The introduction to each section discusses find-spots, acquisitions history and general characteristics of the particular production area; each individual piece is then fully described and discussed. The black and white plates illustrate every example, while the colour plates offer a representative selection of the range of clays found in the terracottas presented here and also of the coloured pigments used in their decoration.
Lucilla Burn is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at The British Museum. She is the author of The Meidias Painter, Greek Myths, The British Museum Book of Greek and Roman Art and a forthcoming book on Hellenistic art. Reynold Higgins (1916-93) was from 1947 to 1977 Assistant Keeper and then Deputy Keeper in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at The British Museum. He is the author of Volumes I and II of the Catalogue of Terracottas in The British Museum and several other books.
Foreword Bibliography and abbreviations General introduction 1. The Central Greek mainland 2. Northern Greece and the Black Sea cities 3. The Ionian islands, Crete and Melos 4. North-west Asia Minor 5. Caria and the Dodecanese 6. Cyrenaica 7. Cyprus, Tarsus and Syria Appendix 1 Neutron activation analysis of selected terracottas (M.J. Hughes) Appendix 2 Analysis of white grounds on some polychrome decorated terracottas (A. Middleton) Appendix 3 Polychrome decoration of Greek terracottas (R.A. Higgins) Appendix 4 Scientific examination of the gilding on Hellenistic terracotta figures (N. Meeks) Concordance A Registration and Catalogue numbers Concordance B Walter's Catalogue and new Catalogue numbers Index of find-sports and alleged provenances Index of donors Index of coroplasts' names General index Maps Colour plates, black and white plates
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.2001 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | including 4 pages of colour and 160 pages of b/w plates, 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7141-2221-1 / 0714122211 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7141-2221-2 / 9780714122212 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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