Full Description
Over the last fifty years Professor Cornelius Vermeule, formerly curator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, has consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost American authorities on Graeco-Roman art. His published work has covered the entire period from Mycenean to Byzantine art, and his papers have included studies of metalwork, sculpture, numismatics and the history of collecting. His studies have been particularly concerned however with Greek and Roman sculpture, especially that of the Roman Empire.
These four volumes are designed to make available the most important of Professor Vermeule's contributions to periodicals. Volume I covers studies published between 1953 and 1964, and volume II continues the selection up to 1973. Volume III contains studies published between 1974 and 1984, and volume IV brings the selection up to 1995. Each volume has a new preface by Professor Vermeule and a comprehensive index.
Contents
Preface
Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections
An Etruscan Zoo Revisited
Aphrodisiaca: Satyr, Maenad and Eros
Four Important Roman Imperial Sestertii: Trajan, Hadrian and Septimius Severus
The Statue of the Damaskenos at the American School at Athens
A Greek Theme and its Survivals: The Ruler's Shield in Tomb and Temple
Cappadocia on the Eve of the Byzantine Empire
Young Man on Horseback (500 B.C.)
Classical Bronzes in Three American Museums Graeco-Roman Statues:
I. Purpose and Setting
II. Literary and Archaeological Evidence for the Display and Grouping of Graeco-Roman Sculpture
Greek and Roman Art at the Wadsworth Athenaeum
Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste
The Basel Dog: A Vindication
Lions: Attic and Related
An Archaic Terra-cotta Rider A Greek Hero of Alexander the Great's Age
Priapos and Maenad in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Three Imperial Portraits in America: Nero, Britannicus and Faustina II from Asia Minor
Collectors of Greek Art: Edward Perry Warren and his Successors
An Aegean Gold Hoard and the Court of Egypt
Aphrodite Unveiled Greek, Etruscan, Roman Gold and Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
I. Archaic to Hellenistic Gold
II. Hellenistic to Late Antique Gold and Silver
Ancient Whips
Dated Monuments of Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman
Popular Art in Asia Minor: Pontus through Mysia
Greek Funerary Animals, 450-300 B.C.
Adventures of a Graeco-Roman Marble Herm
A Greek Heroic Statue in Dallas
Antiquities at Wellesley
America's neoclassic sculptors: fallen angels resurrected
Additional Notes
Index
