From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and ContextNancy T. de Grummond, Brunilde S. Ridgway This volume brings together the work of leading scholars on two of the most important, yet puzzling, extant ensembles of Hellenistic Age sculpture: the Great Altar at Pergamon, with its Gigantomachy and scenes from the life of Telephos, and the Cave at Sperlonga in Italy, with its epic themes connected especially with the adventures of Odysseus. From Pergamon to Sperlonga has three aims: to update the scholarship on two important monuments of ancient art and architecture; to debate questions of iconography, authorship, and date; and to broaden the scope of discussion on these monuments beyond the boundaries of studies done in the past. In addition, the volume brings forward new ideas about how these two monuments are connected and discusses possible means by which stylistic influences were transmitted between them. |
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Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Akropolis ancient Andreae architectural artists Asia Minor Athena Athenian Attalid Attalid Dedication Attalos Attalos II barbarian baroque battle Berlin Bienkowski bronze cave Conticello decoration Diomedes Etruria Etruscan art Eumenes Eumenes II evidence Faustinus figures funerary Gallic Gauls Giants Gigantomachy Greek grotto head Hellenistic period Hellenistic Sculpture hero Himmelmann 1995 Hoepfner iconography identified images imperial inscription Italy Kunze Laokoön Lausus Ludovisi Ludovisi Gaul marble Marszal Moreno motif Museo Nazionale Museum Nereid Nereid Monument Odysseus Odysseus's original painting Palladion Pasquino Pasquino group Pergamon Altar Philetairos Photo Pollitt Polyphemos reconstruction relief representations Rhodes Rhodian Rhodian school Ridgway Roman Rome scene scholars sculpture second century B.C. ship Skylla Skylla group Sperlonga Sperlonga group statuary statues Stewart style stylistic suggested supra Tarquinia Telephos Telephos Frieze terracotta theater theme third century Tiberius tion tomb Tomba tradition Trojan Ulisse Vergil victory villa warrior Weis Zeus καὶ