Hellenistic Sculpture II : The Styles of ca. 200-100 B.C.

by Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo

• ISBN13: 9780299167103
• ISBN10: 0299167100
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

The second century B.C. is one of the most prolific periods in the production of Greek and Hellenistic art, but it is a period extremely vexing to scholars. Very few of the works traditionally cited as examples of this century's art can be dated with certainty, and those that plausibly belong to it reflect no general trends in function, iconography, or style. In Hellenistic Sculpture II: The Styles of ca. 200-100 B.C., the second of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway's three planned volumes on Hellenistic sculpture, she takes on the challenge of interpreting and dating the art of this complex and lively century.

During this period, artistic production was stimulated by the encounter between Greece and Rome and fueled by the desire of the kings of Pergamon to emulate the past glories of fifth-century Athens. Statuary in relief and in the round, often at monumental scale, was created in a variety of styles. Ridgway attempts to determine what can be securely considered to have been produced during the second century B.C. In the course of her exploration, she critically s

Author Biography

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway is Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.

Table of Contents

Plates	ix
Illustrations	xiii
Preface	xv
Hellenistic Sculpture in the Second Century B.C.	3	(16)
The Shadow of the Pergamon Altar	19	(48)
The Telephos Frieze and Continuous Narrative	67	(36)
Architectural Sculpture: A Roundup	103	(40)
Original Statuary in the Round	143	(46)
Original Reliefs: Funerary and Votive	189	(41)
Cult Images and Masters	230	(38)
The Problem of Copies	268	(34)
Odds and Ends	302	(37)
List of Monuments	339	(2)
Bibliography	341	(24)
Credits for Plates	365	(2)
Selective Index	367