Body and Soul. Sculpting Man and the Gods in Antiquity.
Snoeck| N° d'inventaire | 19598 |
| Format | 20 x 26 |
| Détails | 220 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Ghent, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The Château-Gontier Museum of Art and History boasts an astonishing collection of ancient sculptures and ceramics. Aristide Boullet-Lacroix, a traveler and collector, brought them back from a stay in Rome in the 1830s, then donated them to his city, calling for the creation of a museum. More than 150 works, including full-length sculptures, busts, architectural decorations, furniture, and sarcophagus fragments, bear witness to Roman art from the beginning of our era. Studied, restored, and presented at an exhibition at the Mayenne Departmental Archaeological Museum, these sculptures invite us to revisit the history of ancient art and challenge our own aesthetic criteria. This catalog addresses, through extensive summary articles, the themes that emerge from this collection. They are associated with more than 150 notes that detail the analysis of the pieces. The issues addressed touch on various areas of ancient art, but also beliefs and the funerary world. The publication focuses on the genre of portraiture in Antiquity, in Greece and Rome, as well as on the function of ancient sculptures and what they reveal to us about the relationship between Greek and Roman art. Funerary discoveries, as is often the case, constitute a large part of this collection and allow us to understand the place and function of Etruscan ceramics placed in tombs, sculptures associated with burials, and to present the abundant iconography of sarcophagi.
The Château-Gontier Museum of Art and History boasts an astonishing collection of ancient sculptures and ceramics. Aristide Boullet-Lacroix, a traveler and collector, brought them back from a stay in Rome in the 1830s, then donated them to his city, calling for the creation of a museum. More than 150 works, including full-length sculptures, busts, architectural decorations, furniture, and sarcophagus fragments, bear witness to Roman art from the beginning of our era. Studied, restored, and presented at an exhibition at the Mayenne Departmental Archaeological Museum, these sculptures invite us to revisit the history of ancient art and challenge our own aesthetic criteria. This catalog addresses, through extensive summary articles, the themes that emerge from this collection. They are associated with more than 150 notes that detail the analysis of the pieces. The issues addressed touch on various areas of ancient art, but also beliefs and the funerary world. The publication focuses on the genre of portraiture in Antiquity, in Greece and Rome, as well as on the function of ancient sculptures and what they reveal to us about the relationship between Greek and Roman art. Funerary discoveries, as is often the case, constitute a large part of this collection and allow us to understand the place and function of Etruscan ceramics placed in tombs, sculptures associated with burials, and to present the abundant iconography of sarcophagi.