Art and Archaeology of Antiquity Volume II

Book Description

Contents:

• Preface
• Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections
• An Etruscan Zoo Revisited
• Aphrodisiaca: Satyr, Maenad and Eros
• Four Important Roman Imperial Sestertii: Trajan, Hadrian and Septimius Severus
• The Statue of the Damaskenos at the American School at Athens
• A Greek Theme and its Survivals: The Ruler’s Shield in Tomb and Temple
• Cappadocia on the Eve of the Byzantine Empire
• Young Man on Horseback (500 B.C.)
• Classical Bronzes in Three American Museums Graeco-Roman Statues:
• I. Purpose and Setting
• II. Literary and Archaeological Evidence for the Display and Grouping of Graeco-Roman Sculpture
• Greek and Roman Art at the Wadsworth Athenaeum
• Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste
• The Basel Dog: A Vindication
• Lions: Attic and Related
• An Archaic Terra-cotta Rider A Greek Hero of Alexander the Great’s Age
• Priapos and Maenad in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
• Three Imperial Portraits in America: Nero, Britannicus and Faustina II from Asia Minor
• Collectors of Greek Art: Edward Perry Warren and his Successors
• An Aegean Gold Hoard and the Court of Egypt
• Aphrodite Unveiled Greek, Etruscan, Roman Gold and Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
• I. Archaic to Hellenistic Gold
• II. Hellenistic to Late Antique Gold and Silver
• Ancient Whips
• Dated Monuments of Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman
• Popular Art in Asia Minor: Pontus through Mysia
• Greek Funerary Animals, 450-300 B.C.
• Adventures of a Graeco-Roman Marble Herm
• A Greek Heroic Statue in Dallas
• Antiquities at Wellesley
• America’s neoclassic sculptors: fallen angels resurrected
• Additional Notes
• Index

See also:
Vol. I
Vol. III
Vol. IV