Royal Portrats in Sculpture and Coins: Pyrrhos and the Successors of Alexander the Great

by: Brown, B.R.

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Royal Portraits in Sculpture and Coins
Pyrrhos and the Successors of Alexander the Great
Series: Hermeneutics of Art
Estate of Blanche R. Brown
This book begins with a specific problem: the date, style, and iconography of a marble portrait head identified as Pyrrhos, King of Epeiros. Largely by collating with portraits on coins, the head is defined stylistically - dated c.305/304 - c.280 B.C., when the Successors ruled as kings - and confirmed as Pyrrhos. Further study of both coins and sculptures yields a fuller, more complex account of the portraiture of that period, in historic context as well as style, and also of the periods directly before c.305/304 B.C. and after c.280 B.C. In the course of making comparisons, later Hellenistic portraits are discussed as well.

New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1995, 1997. XVI, 121 pp.

The Author: Blanche R. Brown has a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her awards include Fellowships from the N.E.H. and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She was a staff lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then Professor of Art History at New York University. Her writings extend from popular to scholarly: Five Cities: An Art Guide to Athens, Rome, Florence, Paris and London; Ptolemaic Paintings and Mosaics; and Anticlassicism in Greek Sculpture of the Fourth Century B.C.

Royal Portrats in Sculpture and Coins: Pyrrhos and the Successors of Alexander the Great

by: Brown, B.R.

• ISBN-13: 9780820425771 / 978-0-8204-2577-1
• ISBN-03: 082042577X / 0-8204-2577-X
• Peter Lang, New York, 1995

Price: 54,55 EURO

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