Życie starożytnych posagów
By: Tomasz Wujewski
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Poznań
Language: pol
ISBN-13: 9788379768325
Subjects: Ancient Sculpture; Statues
Description: Życie starożytnych posagów

The life of ancient statues

In the Life of ancient statues, for the first time a certain phenomenon of ancient cultures was introduced and explained - the attribution of manifestations of human-like life to statues. The statues were venerated: incensed, anointed, abluted, and adorned with jewelry. Some were supposed to move, water and even sweat. They made sounds, talked, heard and saw, tender touch and healed. They took part both in everyday life and in extraordinary events, in wars, in oracles. Often they were massively destroyed and removed by foreign invaders. The author, an outstanding expert in the history of art - proves that in no other epoch the role of statues was so important for people as in the ancient era. And never later was their number so large that one could speak of crowds of statues, not so much accompanying people's life as decorative entourage, but participating in it, almost on an equal basis. Never again did works of art make such a career--PWN website
Notes: Text in Polish, summary in English