The Art of Praxiteles
by Antonio Corso
Hardback (Published)
(December 2004)
ISBN: 9788882652951
Price: $297.00
On back order
First Chapter: The possible continuity of workshop and sculptural tradition from Myron - Praxiteles the Elder - Styppax from Cyprus - Lycius - Strongylion - Olympiosthenes up until Cephisodotus the Elder: a. Myron
b. Praxiteles
c. Styppax
d. Philiscus
e. Lycius
f. Strongylion
g. Olympiosthenes
h. Cephisodotus the lder
i. Xenophon of Athens
Second Chapter: Birth, family, social conditions and education of Praxiteles (c. 395-75)
Third Chapter: The activity of Praxiteles in the workshop of Cephisodotus the Elder (around 375-68): 1. The Acanthus' Column at Delphi
2. The Warrior standing beside a horse, at Athens
3. The Tyrant-slayers
4. The Charioteer placed in a quadriga made by Calamis
Fourth Chapter: Praxiteles at the helm of his workshop. His participation in Plato's environment and the beginning of his relationship with Phryne (368-4): 5. The Kidnapping of Persephone
6. Persephone descending to the Underworld
7. The Thyiades
8. The Caryatids
9. The Sileni
10. The Maenads
11. The base of a choregic monument Athens, National Archaeological Museum, no. 1463
12. The triad of Demeter, Kore and Iakchus
13. The triad of Flora, Triptolemus and Ceres
14. The statue of Cliocratia
15. The bronze Dionysus
16. The Archer Eros
17. The triad of Thespiae
18. The Pouring Satyr
19. Danae, the Nymphs and Pan
20. The Weeping Matron and the Merry Courtesan
21. The bronze statue of Eros Diadumenus
Photographical references
General Index.
- By (author) Antonio Corso
Other Titles in this Series
La Tomba di San Luca Evangelista
La cassa di piombo e l'area funeraria della basilica di Santa Giustina in Padova
Volume 123
Ornamenti e lusso nell’antica Peucezia
Le aristocrazie tra VII e III secolo a.C. e i rapporti con Greci ed Etruschi
Volume 201
Archeologia in Etruria Meridionale
Atti delle giornate di studio in ricordo di Mario Moretti, Civita Castellana 14-15 novembre 2003
Volume 147
Similar Books
A Collaborative Tapestry in Honour of Shirley Ann Brown / Une fresque brodée en l’honneur de Shirley Ann Brown
The Bayeux Tapestry Seen by her Colleagues and Friends / La Tapisserie de Bayeux vue par ses collègues et amis
Balthasar Caymox of Nuremberg
Early Modern German Print Publishers: Popular Prints of the Seventeenth Century
ENTANGLED AFRICA
Intra-African Relations Between Rain Forest and Mediterranean from Around 4,000 BCE to 1,500 CE
Gold, Silver and Glass: Power Networks, Cultural Identities, Technology Transfers and Agency across the Old World (7th Century BC – 1st Century AD)
Proceedings of a Conference Held at the British Museum, 16–18 June 2023
Legal Visuality
Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period
Listening to the Swan Song
More-than-Human Beings and Sounds in Literature and Culture Through the Ages
Monastic Manuscripts from the Eastern Mediterranean (Sinai, Jerusalem, Antioch)
Production, Use, and Contexts
Naples as Laboratory / Laboratorium Neapel
Style Options, Artistic Rivalry and Self Fashioning in Neapolitan Baroque Painting / Plurale Stilbildung, Kunstlerkonkurrenz und Self Fashioning in der neapolitanischen Barockmalerei
Nurturing the Elite
Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography
Volume 13
Portraying the Individual in the Roman East
Local–Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (First–Fourth Centuries AD)
Volume 18
Technical Studies of Asian Art
Proceedings of the Seventh Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art
