Classical Sculpture: Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, And Roman Stone Sculpture in the University Of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (University Museum Monograph)
by Irene Bald Romano
from University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
by Vassos Karageorghis
from HNA Books
A Metropolitan Museum of Art Publication The most important collection of Cypriot antiquities outside Cyprus is the Cesnola Collection at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, assembled by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the first director of the museum. Cesnola was a Civil War veteran who went to Cyprus in 1866 and, in excavations there, sought to rival the finds of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy. Now, on the occasion of the redesign of the Metropolitan's Cypriot galleries, comes this gorgeously illustrated catalogue of some 500 objects, ranging from glass, stone sculpture, and terra-cotta figurines to lamps, pottery, and jewelry.
The Cesnola Collection includes works that are among the finest examples of Cypriot art from the prehistoric, Archaic, Classical/Hellenistic, and Roman periods. The first scholarly catalogue since 1914 of a large selection from the Cesnola Collection, this volume will be an invaluable reference.
260 illustrations, 250 in full color, 5 line drawings, 8 1/2 x 11"
VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS has authored numerous scholarly volumes and articles on Cypriot antiquities, published in the United States, Europe, and Cyprus.
JOAN R. MERTENS is curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. MARICE E. ROSE is research associate, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkNew galleries opening in
Cyprus And The Devotional Arts Of Byzantium In The Era Of The Crusades (Variorum Collected Studies Series)
by Annemarie Weyl Carr
from Ashgate Publishing
The Templar of Tyre: Part III of the 'Deeds of the Cypriots (Crusade Texts in Translation, 6)
from Ashgate Publishing
The nature of the Cypriot chronicle of Leontios Makhairis
The Heart Grown Bitter: A Chronicle of Cypriot War Refugees
Medieval Cyprus
from Princeton University Press
Cyprus has always shown a remarkable openness to divergent cultures--at no time more than in the Middle Ages, when successive Byzantine and Latin conquerors settled on the island and dominated its art. These two societies profoundly influenced each other and their interchange resulted in art of great richness and diversity. The fourteen distinguished and generously illustrated studies in this volume provide sharply focused views of the island's artistic evolution in this period, beginning with an archaeological report on Early Christian graves built into abandoned pagan tombs in the fifth century and ending with an essay on the extravagant Venetian-style Cypriot frescoes of the sixteenth century. In between are a wide range of studies of Byzantine Cypriot architecture, stone carvings, frescoes, icons, illuminated manuscripts, and ceramics.
The contributors draw on these works, many of which are poorly known and some of which have never before been reproduced, to reopen such crucial questions as whether artistic influences were provincial or metropolitan and to disentangle the many medieval cultural traditions that are preserved so uniquely in Cyprus. In the process, they reveal the astonishing tenacity and flexibility of the Byzantine style. The volume also contains an assessment of the distinguished Greek scholar Doula Mouriki's contribution to the study of Byzantine art and a bibliography of her many publications.
The contributors are Mary Aspra-Vardavakis, Charalambos Bakirtzis, Charalambos Bouras, Susan Boyd, Carolyn L. Connor, Efthalia Constantinides, Slobodan auria, Melita Emmanuel, Irmgard Hutter, Henry Maguire, Athanasios Papageorghiou, Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzis, Panayiotis L. Vocotopoulos, and Vera von Falkenhausen.
Hoi Kyprioi Vretanias: 50 chronia prosphoras, 1930-80
The National Museum of Denmark Catalogue of Ancient Sculptures: Aegean, Cypriote, and Graeco-Phoenician
by P. J. Riis
from Natl Museum of Denmark
Cyprus : The Legacy. Historic Landmarks That Influenced The Art Of Cyprus
from University Press of Maryland
Essays on the relationship between history and the art and architecture of Cyprus from the Bronze Age through its subjugation by the Venetians. Photographs and drawings throughout. Essays by:
J. Koumoulides, From Earliest Times to AD 1600;
V. Karageorghis, The Art of Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age;
T. Mullaly, Byzantine Cyprus;
T. Mullaly, Gothic and Renaissance Architecture;
P. Edbury, Some Cultural Implications of the Latin Conquest
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