Author: Vermeule, Cornelius C.
Title: Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada
Description: Berkeley, The J. Paul Getty Museum / University of California Press, 1981. Hardcover. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket, ix, 406 pp. 30 color, 336 bw plates. "The nearly 350 objects beautifully displayed here demonstrate the variety of classical holdings in America. They range in time from prehistoric Cycladic marble statuettes to late Roman portraits and sarcophagi, and come from all regions of the classical world. Eighty-one American and Canadian collections are represented, including both small university galleries and larger public museums." (dj) Contents as follows: Preface / by Jiri Frel -- Introduction, part I: Sculpture in the Greek and Roman worlds -- Introduction, part II: American collections and collectors -- Catalogue, I. Early Greek and archaic sculpture -- II. Classical sculpture of the fifth century B.C. -- III. Classical sculpture of the early fourth century B.C. -- IV. Cypriote sculpture -- V. Classical sculpture of the later fourth century B.C. -- VI. Classical funerary sculpture -- VII. Hellenistic portraits -- VIII. Hellenistic sculpture -- IX. Archaistic and neoattic sculpture -- X. Graeco-Roman sculpture -- XI. Roman sarcophagi -- XII. Other Roman sculpture -- XIII. Roman portraits -- XIV. Palmyrene funerary reliefs. VG (Former owner name and date on first page, otherwise clean.) .

Keywords: Classical Art/Antiquities ; Greek and Roman Sculpture ; ;


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