Disiecta Membra
Frammenti di statuaria bronzea di eta romana del Museo Civico di Catania
by Stefania Pafumi
Hardback (Published)
(February 2020)
ISBN: 9788891316493
8.43 x 10.98 inches
Price: $275.00
In stock
Investigations carried out in the warehouses of the Civic Museum of Castello Ursino in Catania have led to the identification of a large collection of fragments of bronze statuary from the Roman period. The fragments come from the eighteenth-century collections of Benedictine monks and the Biscari family, which finally became part of Catania’s civic heritage. The pieces are relevant to statues of both life and larger-than-life sizesl, made in the lost wax technique. The analyses of the chemical composition of the alloy, carried out with non-invasive techniques, allowed to confirm the hypothesis of a unitary purchase of pieces, then randomly divided between the two collections in Catania; and to anchor fragments without information of archaeological origin to others for which, instead, these exist; finally, to provide additional elements for a reading of the production processes of the Roman workshops and the reference statuary types. The volume offers a historical overview of the pieces in the eighteenth-century collections of origin; a reconstruction of collecting events; an examination of the technical aspects and production processes of Roman statuary bronzes in the light of the results of archaeometrical investigations; the reasoned catalogue of the fragments; their stylistic and iconographic classification. The appendix presents the analytical results of the diagnostic investigations on the individual pieces.
- By (author) Stefania Pafumi
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