Buch, Englisch, 293 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, 293 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8053-2429-8
Verlag: Verlag Philipp von Zabern
This is the second volume of Eric Hostetter's publication on the bronzes from Spina in the Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Ferrara. Like the first volume, which included the bronze figurines from Spina, it constitutes an important corpus of evidence for less well-known aspects and phases of the art and archaeology of the Etruscans, and for the influence of Greek art on Etruscan sculpture of the classical period. The book presents the majority of classes of Etruscan and Atestine vessels from the necropoleis of Valle Trebba and Valle Pega and several other classes, most of which are commonly termed 'banqueting' bronzes, in contrast to objects of personal adornment, dress, warfare, trade or sport. As with Bronzes from Spina I, the author intended here to present and interpret the bronzes from Spina as classes of excavated materials with secure findspots and dated associated gravegoods. Neither a definite study of each class of bronzes, most of which are widely diffused throughout Etruria, the Mediterranean basin and north of the Alps, nor a comprehensive examination of the tomb groups, nor yet an exhaustive study of individual bronzes is intended. The author wanted to provide reliable documentation and a contextual presentation of these, for the most part unpublished, bronzes in such a manner that others may pursue further the study both of the individual piece and the broader issues of Etruscan, Atestine and Greek toreutike.
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