The Derveni Krater Masterpiece of Classical Greek Metalwork Ancient Art and Architecture in Context 1st Edition by Beryl Barr-Sharrar ISBN 0876619626 ‎ 978-0876619629

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ISBN 10: 0876619626 ‎ 

ISBN 13: 978-0876619629

Author: Beryl Barr-Sharrar

This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered. Found in an undisturbed Macedonian tomb of the late 4th century B.C., the volute krater is a tour de force of highly sophisticated methods of bronze working. An unusual program of iconography informs every area of the vessel. Snakes with copper and silver inlaid stripes frame the rising handles, wrapping their bodies around masks of underworld deities. On the shoulder sit four cast bronze figures: on one side a youthful Dionysos with an exhausted maenad, on the other a sleeping Silenos and a maenad handling a snake. In the major repoussé frieze on the body a bearded hunter is associated with Dionysian figures. What was the function of this extraordinary object? And what is the meaning of the intricate iconography? The krater is placed in its Macedonian archaeological context as an heirloom of the descendants of the man named in the Thessalian inscription on its rim, and in its art historical context as a highly elaborated, early 4th-century, version of a metal type known in Athens by about 470 B.C. Contains 47 color and 167 b/w illustrations.

Table of contents: 

1 Cist Tombs and the Pit Grave
2 Location and plan views of six of the Derveni tombs
3 Discovery of the Derveni Krater
4 Description and Technology of Production
5 Added Elements on the Mouth and Foot
6 Date of the Krater
7 Origin of the Attic 5th Century A-Type
8 Dionysos and Ariadne
9 The Hunter
10 EIGHT Animal Friezes Volute Masks and Cast Shoulder Figures
11 Side
12 NINE The Uses and Workshop Origin of the Derveni Krater
13 Deviations from the Predominant Handle Pattern
14 An Attic Red-Figure Adaptation of the A-Type Volute Krater
15 SIX Relief Friezes Further Elaboration Floral Ornament and Workshops
16 REFERENCES
17 ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

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