Report on the Aeginetan Sculptures : With Historical Supplements

by: Wagner, J.M. Schelling, F.W.J.

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Report on the Aeginetan sculptures : with historical supplements

Authors:Johann Martin von Wagner (Author), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (Author), Louis A. Ruprecht (Editor, Translator, Writer of introduction)

Summary:The controversial removal of the Parthenon sculptures from Greece to England in the first decade of the nineteenth century by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin, sparked an international competition for classical antiquities. This volume tells a lesser-known chapter of that story, concerning sculptures from the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina. Discovered in 1811 as the Parthenon project was nearing its completion, these ancient sculptures were acquired at auction by Johann Martin Wagner (1777?1858) on behalf of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria. The sculptures turned out to be significant in a number of ways, offering important evidence for a transitional period of Greek art between the archaic and classical eras, for the existence of an independent Aeginetan school that was the equal of Athenian art at the time, and for Greek sculptures having been elaborately painted and adorned. Originally published in 1817 and presented here for the first time in English, this book reproduces the report commissioned by the crown prince that was written by Wagner and edited by F.W.J. Schelling and contained richly detailed descriptions of the sculptures. In addition, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. provides a comprehensive historical introduction featuring a constellation of intellectual figures, an afterword, notes, appendices, and more than forty images to tell the fascinating story of the sculptures and their legacy from excavation to the present day.

xxv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:
Introduction
Editor's notes
Description of the Aeginetan figures by classification
Fragments that belong either to the Aeginetan figures or to the temple
On the style of these figures
On the conflict of opinion concerning the relationship between heads and the leftover body parts from a sculptural perspective
On mechanical matters, or the working of the marble
On the epoch in which these figures were probably completed
How and where these figures were originally arranged
On the meaning or idea [vorstellung] of these figures
On the painting [bemalung] of the figures and of the temple
Conclusion
Endnotes
Editor's concluding remarks

Translated from the German

Report on the Aeginetan Sculptures : With Historical Supplements

by: Wagner, J.M. Schelling, F.W.J.

• ISBN-13: 9781438464800 / 978-1-4384-6480-0
• ISBN-03: 1438464800 / 1-4384-6480-0
• State University of New York Press, New York, 2017

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Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible

by: Murphy, J.B.

• ISBN-13: 9781009392969 / 978-1-009-39296-9
• ISBN-03: 1009392964 / 1-009-39296-4
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

Price: 33,39 EURO

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