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Item Number: 125421
Title: The Art of PRAXITELES IV: The Late Phase of his Activity
Author: Corso, Antonio
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788891302915
Description: Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 262pp., 64 b&w illus. English text. Summary: The book is focused on the late production of the 4th c. BC Athenian sculptor Praxiteles and in particular on his oeuvre from around 355 to around 340 BC.most important works of this master considered in this essay are his sculptures for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Apollo Sauroctonus, the Eros of Parium, the Artemis Brauronia, Peitho and Paregoros, his Aphrodite from Corinth, the group of Apollo and Poseidon, the Apollinean triad of Mantinea, the Dionysus of Elis, the Hermes of Olympia and the Aphrodite Pseliumene.lists of ancient copies and variations derived from the masterpieces studied here are also provided.creation by the artist of an art of pleasure and his visual definition of a remote and mythical Arcadia of beautiful and gentle tales are discovered and followed through their development. (Studia Archaeologica, 190)
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