Power and pathos
Subtitle: bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world
By: edited by Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin
Contributors: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy); J. Paul Getty Museum; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781606064399
Subjects: Hellenistic Portrait sculpture; Expertising; Bronze sculpture; Exhibitions; Hellenistic Bronze sculpture
Notes: "This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, on view at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from July 28 to November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art from December 6, 2015 to March 20, 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-355) and index.
Table of contents: title: Map with findspots of ancient bronzes; title: Reframing Hellenistic bronze sculpture  -- Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin; title: Why bronze?  -- Andrew Stewart; title: Aletheia/Veritas:; title: The new canon  -- Gianfranco Adornato; title: Contexts of discovery  -- Seán Hemingway; title: Hellenistic bronze sculptures from the Aegean Sea:; title: Recent discoveries (1994-2009)  -- George Koutsouflakis and Angeliki Simosi; title: Bronze sculpture in the Hellenistic East  -- Matthew P. Canepa; title: Eikōn chalkē:; title: Hellenistic statue honors in bronze  -- R.R.R. Smith; title: Repeated images:; title: Beauty with economy  -- Carol C. Mattusch; title: Looking back: Archaic and classical bronzes of the Hellenistic and Roman periods  -- Christopher H. Hallett; title: The color of bronze:; title: Polychromy and the aesthetics of bronze surfaces  -- Sophie Descamps-Lequime; title: Techno-Chronology?; title: Alloy composition and the use of technical features for the dating of ancient bronzes -- Alessandra Giumlia-Mair-- Catalog.