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The Complete Content Cameos
Martin Henig, Helen Molesworth
- Pages: iv + 407 p.
- Size:225 x 300 mm
- Illustrations:583 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2018
- € 165,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-57896-5
- Hardback
- Available
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"This well-illustrated and carefully edited volume is a significant addition to the study of cameos. Offering a valuable corpus of comparanda and parallels for studying the glyptic art of the ancient world, it will delight connoisseurs as well as scholars and become indispensable to any research library." (Claudia Wagner, in: The Burlington Magazine, 161, November 2019, p. 969)
Summary
This catalogue of the largest collection of ancient cameos in private hands, represents forty years of collecting these historical documents in hardstone. While part of the collection was on public display at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1990-2000), the whole collection has never been shown. Several recent publications have made it possible to draw more precise conclusions based on a larger sample of cameos available for comparative study. This increased number of published cameos has allowed studies of the popularity of particular subjects at certain periods, of the development of styles and techniques, and of the relative popularity of some gem materials over time. The development of digital photography has enabled gem photographers to show undreamt-of detail, allowing much closer study of tool marks and even individual artists' hands.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Precursors to the Cameo Tradition: Archaic and Classical
Chapter 2. Hellenistic
Chapter 3. Portraits
A. A Group of Front Facing Female Portrait Busts in the Hellenistic Tradition
B. Female Portraits
C. Male Portraits
D. A Group of Carved Jet Medallions
Chapter 4. Deities and Myths
Protective deities
Chapter 4a. Two Early Byzantine Mythological Groups
Chapter 5. Dionysiac
The world of Dionysus
The Dionysiac troupe
The Dionysiac cast
Eros: with Dionysus, Aphrodite and Psyche
Maenads (Bacchants)
Animals
Chapter 5a A Group of Dionysiac Glass and Alabaster Plaques
Chapter 6. Eros
Eros in action
Eros Thanatos
Eros heads
Chapter 7. Gorgoneia
Chapter 8. Animals
Big cats
Hunting and hounds
Herbivores
Birds
Sea creatures
Rats and elephants
Mythical beasts
Chapter 9. Daily Life
Chapter 10. Theatre and Music
Chapter 11. Legends
A. Single letters
B. Harmony/marriage legends
C. Good wish legends
D. Warning legends
E. Exhortation legends
F. Remembrance legends
G. Love legends
H. Longer legends
I. Religious legends
J. Official legends
K. Latin legends
General conclusions
Chapter 12. Cameos
Iran/Afghanistan
Greater India
Burma
Thailand
Vietnam
Cambodia
Chapter 13. Carvings in the Round
Chapter 13a. Diatreta or Cage Cups
Chapter 14. Byzantine and Medieval Cameos
Chapter 15. Renaissance and Later
A Note on Mountings
Content Collection Concordance
Index of Subjects
Index of Materials
Index of Mountings
Index of Collection Provenance
Bibliography
