Cycladic Art
Cycladic Art

Author: J. Lesley Fitton

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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"At the dawn of European history, in the third millennium BC, the small Greek islands in the southern Aegean known as the Cyclades were home to a remarkable and distinctive culture. Among its most characteristic products were vessels and sculpted figures fashioned from the local marble, and today these Cycladic figurines are admired around the world. This concise introduction to Cycladic art puts the figurines and other objects into the context provided by current knowledge of early life in the islands."--Jacket.

Early Cycladic Sculpture
Early Cycladic Sculpture

Author: Pat Getz-Preziosi

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1995-01-12

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0892362200

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First published in 1985, this ground-breaking book surveys the development of Cycladic sculpture produced by unidentified artists who worked in the Aegean islands forty-five hundred years ago. Illustrated with numerous objects from American collections—with particular emphasis on some two dozen pieces in the Getty Museum—this volume surveys the typological development of Early Cycladic sculpture and identifies, where possible, the work of individual sculptors. Newly revised and updated, this book is a concise introduction to the field.

Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture
Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture

Author: Pat Getz-Gentle

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0299172031

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Annotation "Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture represents the culmination of thirty-five years of study. Pat Getz-Gentle offers here much new material and many fresh insights into a tradition, rooted in the Neolithic period, that spanned most of the third millennium B.C. She begins with a review of this tradition, placing particular emphasis on the stages leading to the reclining figure with folded arms that is the unique and quintessential icon of the early Bronze Age culture at the center of the Aegean. She then focuses on the styles of fifteen sculptors, several of whom are identified and discussed for the first time in this volume. By introducing little-known pieces attributable to these sculptors, she illuminates various phases of their artistic development."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Aegean Waves
Aegean Waves

Author: Nikolaos Chr Stampolidēs

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its flat female idols carved out of the islands' pure white marble. This beautiful illustrated book explores these periods in Cycladic culture and how the natural environment of the islands shaped its art. It also addresses the settlements of these periods and the artifacts produced by their potters, marble-carvers, and metalworkers. Maps are interspersed throughout the text, along with a chronological table, plans of known settlements, cemeteries, and individual tombs, as well as photographs of archaeological digs and landscapes by well-known photographers. Items from the Museum's Collection are also presented, followed by commentary and comprehensive text that venture at the items' probable significance and functions.

Cycladic Art
Cycladic Art

Author: Seán Hemingway

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2024-05-13

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1588397874

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This book presents highlights of the ancient Cycladic antiquities spanning more than three thousand years (5300–2200 BCE) from the Leonard N. Stern Collection. The featured works, on display at The Met through a special collaboration with the Hellenic Republic, include mesmerizing figurative sculptures as well as marble and terracotta vessels and metalwork. Seán Hemingway, John A. and Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at The Met, writes eloquently about the subtleties of Cycladic craftsmanship during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Beautiful photography of the collection attests to the power of the seminal tradition of stone carving in Cycladic civilization.

Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context
Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context

Author: Mariza Martharē

Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781785701955

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The sculpture of the early bronze age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from unauthorized excavations, where the archaeological context was irretrievably lost. Largely for that reason there are still many problems surrounding the chronology, the function and the meaning of Early Cycladic sculpture. This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive reassessment sets out to rectify that situation by publishing finds which have been recovered in controlled excavations in recent years, as well as earlier finds for which better documentation can now be provided. Using the material from recent excavation projects, and drawing on the papers presented at a symposium held in Athens in 2014, it is possible now to undertake a fresh overview of the entire body of sculpture from the Cycladic islands which has been found in secure archaeological contexts. Beginning with early examples from Neolithic settlement sites and extending into a consideration of material found in later contexts, the 35 chapters are divided into sections which examine sculpture from settlements, cemeteries and the sanctuary at Kavos, concluding with a discussion of material, techniques and aspects of manufacture.

Neolithic and Cycladic Civilization
Neolithic and Cycladic Civilization

Author: George Papathanasopoulos

Publisher: Melissa Publishing House

Published: 1999-12-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789602040447

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A presentation of two unique collections in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, which include characteristic examples, superb in quality and variety, of the finest artistic creations of the Neolithic and Cycladic civilizations. Household articles, tools, weapons, object of minor art, pottery and sculpture, made by people who lived in Greece between five and seven thousand years ago, and showing a cultural level that almost reaches perfection.