Artistry in Bronze The Greeks and Their Legacy XIXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes
Contents
International Bronze Congresses and Associated Publications and Exhibitions
Directors’ Foreword
Introduction
I. Large-Scale Bronzes
1. The Bronze Athlete from Ephesos
2. Was the Colossus of Rhodes Cast in Courses or in Large Sections?
3. Bronzes from the Aegean Sea: A Reassessment of Old and New Finds
4. A Royal Macedonian Portrait Head from the Sea off Kalymnos
5. The Bronze Head of Arsinoë III in Mantua and the Typology of Ptolemaic Divinization on the Archelaos Relief
6. The Apollo from Salerno: Hellenistic Influence in Southern Italy
7. Tiberius from Herculaneum: Methods of Assembling a Monumental Bronze Portrait
8. When a Statue Is Not a Statue
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II. The Artist
9. More Than Holes! An Unconventional Perspective of the “Greek Revolution” in Bronze Statuary
10. Polykleitos and His Followers at Work: How the Doryphoros Was Used
11. Looking at the Bronze of Lost Sculptures: The Reception of the Delphic Monument of the Admirals in the Imperial Age
12. Mobility and Migration: Issues Concerning Itinerant Sculptors
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III. Statuettes
13. Assertions by the Portable: What Can Bronze Statuettes Tell Us about Major Classical Sculpture?
14. The Use of Inlays in Early Greek Bronzes
15. The Poet as Artisan: A Hellenistic Bronze Statuette in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
16. The Paramythia Bronzes: Expressions of Cultural Identity in Roman Epirus
17. Roman Bronze Figurines of Deities in the National Archaeological Museum of the Marche (Ancona)
18. Function and Use of Roman Medium-Sized Statuettes in the Northwestern Provinces
19. Through Celts and Romans: Technology and Symbolism of Bronze Enameled Roosters
20. Representations of Zeus/Jupiter in Bronze Statuettes from Albania
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IV. The Hellenistic East
21. The Influence of East and West on Bronze Objects Found in Central Anatolia: Small Bronze Finds from Kaman-Kalehöyük
22. The Portrait of a Hellenistic Ruler in the National Museum of Iran
23. The Influence of Bronze-Working on Roman Provincial Stone Sculpture: The Case of Palmyra
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V. Vessels
24. Bronze Vessels from the Acropolis and the Definition of the Athenian Production in Archaic and Early Classical Periods
25. Bronze Vessels and Related Instrumenta at Delphi: Remarks on Morphology, Provenance, and Chronology
26. Toward the Derveni Krater: On the Rarity of Large Bronze Vessels of the Archaic and Classical Periods Bearing Large Figural Registers
27. Iconography of the Sea World on Late Hellenistic Bronze Vessels
28. An Anthropomorphic Vessel in the National Museum of Beirut
29. Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Influence in the Consolidation of Fatimid Metalware
VI. Artifacts
30. Minoan Status Symbols: Tweezers, “Weaving Hooks,” and Cosmetic Scrapers
31. Bronze Trees from the Greek to the Roman World
32. Bronze Medical and Writing Cases in Classical and Hellenistic Macedonia
33. A Group of Items from the Campana Collection as an Example of Nineteenth-Century Restoration
34. Roman Silhouette Figures: A Contribution to Music Archaeology?
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VII. Conservation and Analysis
35. Sustainable Conservation of Bronze Artworks: Advanced Research in Materials Science
36. Investigating Ancient “Bronzes”: Non-Destructive Analysis of Copper-Based Alloys
37. A Scientific Assessment of the Long-Term Protection of Incralac Coatings on Ancient Bronze Collections in the National Archaeological Museum and the Epigraphic and Numismatic Museum in Athens, Greece
38. New Approaches in Stabilizing Chloride-Contaminated Ancient Bronzes Using Corrosion Inhibitors and/or Electrochemical Methods to Preserve Information in the Patinas
39. Conservation Treatments and Archaeometallurgical Insights on the Medici Riccardi Horse Head
40. The Cleveland Apollo: Recent Research and Revelations
41. The Getty Herm of Dionysos: Technical Observations, Review, and Interpretation
42. A Technological Reexamination of the Piombino Apollo
43. New Results on the Alloys of the Croatian Apoxyomenos
44. The Bronze Sculpture of Alexander the Great on Horseback: An Archaeometallurgical Study
45. The Auloi from Meroë: Preliminary Notes on the Conservation, Technical Examination, and Interpretation of a Cache of Ancient Musical Instruments
46. A Defined Protocol for In Situ Micro-XRF Compositional Analysis of Bronze Figurines from the National Museum of Damascus, Syria
47. Is There an Ultimate Authority in Authenticity? Testing and Retesting Alexander the Great
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