Monumenta Graeca et Romana
Monumenta Graeca et Romana

Author: Brian Christopher Madigan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 9004164081

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This catalogue comprises those vases from Corinth and Athens with painted decoration in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Each vase is given a description of salient features, attribution to a painter and date, and discussion of the painted decoration.

Monumenta graeca et romana: Civil and military architecture
Monumenta graeca et romana: Civil and military architecture

Author: David A. Caccioli

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9004172300

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The Villanovan and Etruscan collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts not only represent an important source of Classical Antiquity in the United States, but also serve as a historical model of how such artifacts were acquired by large American museums from the late-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. These collections provide museum visitors, scholars, and students with an indepth view into one of antiquity's most fascinating peoples, the Etruscans and their predecessors. The wide-ranging collections contain artifacts from every aspect of Etruscan life such as utilitarian tools and weapons, objects for personal adornment, votive statuettes, and cinerary urns to house the dead. One statuette, the Detroit Rider, is considered to be among the finest surviving examples of Etruscan small sculpture. The catalogue brings together all of these pieces for the first time with photographs and relevant bibliographic sources on their cultural and religious functions in antiquity.

Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art
Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art

Author: Amy C. Smith

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-06-22

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9004214526

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In this study Dr Smith investigates the use of political personifications in the visual arts of Athens in the Classical period (480-323 BCE). Whether on objects that served primarily private roles (e.g. decorated vases) or public roles (e.g. cult statues and document stelai), these personifications represented aspects of the state of Athens—its people, government, and events—as well as the virtues (e.g. Nemesis, Peitho or Persuasion, and Eirene or Peace) that underpinned it. Athenians used the same figural language to represent other places and their peoples. This is the only study that uses personifications as a lens through which to view the intellectual and political climate of Athens in the Classical period.