Impressions of Animals in Bronze
Author: Marianne Commisso-Herrick
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 44
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Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
Author: Andrew Shapland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-05-12
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1009174924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeologists have long admired the naturalistic animal art of Minoan Crete, often explaining it in terms of religion or a love of the natural world. In this book, Andrew Shapland provides a new way of understanding animal depictions from Bronze Age Crete as the outcome of human-animal relations. Drawing on approaches from anthropology and Human-Animal Studies, he explores the stylistic development of animal depictions in different media, including frescoes, ceramics, stone vessels, seals and wall paintings, and explains them in terms of 'animal practices' such as bull-leaping, hunting, fishing and collecting. Integrating zooarchaeological finds, Shapland highlights the significance of objects and their associated human-animal relations in the history of the palaces, sanctuaries and tombs of Bronze Age Crete. His volume demonstrates how looking at animals opens up new perspectives on familiar sites such as Knossos and some of the most famous objects of this time and place.
Animals in Bronze
Author: Christopher Payne
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
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Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria
Author: Glenn M. Schwartz
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2024-02-01
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 1950446433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnimals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra, edited by Johns Hopkins professor Glenn M. Schwartz, is a final report of the excavation of Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria, conducted in 1994-2010. It is likely the site of ancient Tuba, capital of a small kingdom in the Early and Middle Bronze periods, in the Jabbul plain between Aleppo and northern Mesopotamia. Its study advances our understanding of early Syrian complex society beyond the big cities of Antiquity. Of particular importance in the Early Bronze excavations are the results from the site necropolis, tombs of high-ranking persons containing objects of gold, silver, and lapis lazuli. Separate installations hold kungas (donkey x onager hybrids), sometimes along with human infants. This site provides the first archaeological attestation of the kunga equids, unique in the archaeology of third-millennium Syria and Mesopotamia.
Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant
Author: Graham Philip
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-12-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781841271354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sets out the primary issues and current debates in the use of ceramics to reconstruct and explain cultural economic and social processes in the Early Bronze age. By bringing together research on pottery from various parts of the southern Levant, it allows direct comparison of contemporary material from different regions. Alongside these empirical studies are discussions of general ceramic issues, so that the book highlights the potential of pottery as an investigative tool, and indicates fruitful directions for future research within the traditionally conservative field of Levantine archaeology.
The Archaeology of Ancient Israel
Author: Amnon Ben-Tor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780300059199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this illustrated book, some of Israel's foremost archaeologists present a survey of early life in the land of the Bible, from the Neolithic era (eighth millenium BC) to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BC. Each chapter covers a particular era and includes a bibliography.
Animals in Bronze
Author: Cynthia Rigden
Publisher:
Published: 19??
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresentations of Animals on Greek and Roman Engraved Gems
Author: Idit Sagiv
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-07-13
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1784918709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive study of the depictions of animals and their significance on Greek and Roman gems. The work examines the associations between animal depictions and the type of gemstone and its believed qualities. The study also compares the representation of animals on gems to other, larger media, and analyses the differences.
The Animal Gazer
Author: Edgardo Franzosini
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1939931541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poignant biographical novel about a WWI-era sculptor: “It’s difficult not to love the eccentric, fragile Rembrandt Bugatti and suffer alongside him” (The New York Times Book Review). The Animal Gazer is a hypnotic novel inspired by the strange and fascinating life of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti, brother of the fabled automaker. With World War I closing in and the Belle Époque teetering to a end, Bugatti leaves his native Milan for Paris, where he encounters Rodin and casts his bronzes at the same foundry used by the French master. In Paris and then Antwerp, he obsessively observes and sculpts the baboons, giraffes, and panthers in the municipal zoos, finding empathy with their plight and identifying with their life in captivity. But as the Germans drop bombs over the Belgian city, the zoo authorities are forced to make a heart-wrenching decision about the fate of the caged animals, and Bugatti is stricken with grief from which he’ll never recover. Rembrandt Bugatti’s work is displayed in major museums around the world, and in this prize-winning novel, “an irresistible, elegantly conceived example of biographical fiction,” Edgardo Franzosini recreates the young artist’s life with lyricism, passion, and sensitivity (Library Journal). “The Animal Gazer takes you on a glorious journey into the heart of cosmopolitan Paris as you have never known it before. Through the life of Rembrandt Bugatti, a sculptor with the panache of his name, this lively, fast-paced narrative evokes an exceptional epoch in all its color and eccentric charm.” ―Nicholas Fox Weber, author of Le Corbusier: A Life
Animals in Bronze
Author: Eleonora Luciano
Publisher: University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe catalogue of the October 1996 exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art displaying the emergence of a bronze sculpture "school" focused entirely on animal subjects. The essays and representations chronicle the major stylistic and iconographic trends of the movement, including the Romantic expressionism of Barye, the realism of Jules Mene, and the Impressionism displayed by Rembrandt Bugatti, the leader of the younger generation of animaliers. Includes photographs. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
