Splendors of Volubilis. Ancient bronzes from Morocco and the Mediterranean.
South Acts| N° d'inventaire | 17982 |
| Format | 24.6 x 32.4 |
| Détails | 192 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Arles, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
This book accompanies an exhibition that will take place at the MuCEM in Marseille from March 11 to August 25, 2014. It will present a collection of 28 large, high-quality bronzes – currently on display at the Archaeological Museum of Rabat, but discovered in Volubilis, and dating mainly from the Hellenistic period – and a number of complementary works: bronzes from the King's Cabinet in the Cabinet of Coins, Medals and Antiques at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, bronzes from the Dutuit Collection at the Petit Palais, and loans from the Louvre Museum. New photography campaigns will highlight the stylistic and typological characteristics of these bronzes, in which various specific artistic trends and schools can be recognized. They bear witness to a certain know-how in vogue among the aristocratic and wealthy classes of Mediterranean society at this time. This richly illustrated and particularly carefully crafted book will offer an analysis of the tastes and practices of a particular society at a given time in the Mediterranean. It will also present the origin of bronzes, the models and schools, and finally the process of casting operations and the techniques, sometimes very elaborate, of bronze makers in Antiquity.
This book accompanies an exhibition that will take place at the MuCEM in Marseille from March 11 to August 25, 2014. It will present a collection of 28 large, high-quality bronzes – currently on display at the Archaeological Museum of Rabat, but discovered in Volubilis, and dating mainly from the Hellenistic period – and a number of complementary works: bronzes from the King's Cabinet in the Cabinet of Coins, Medals and Antiques at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, bronzes from the Dutuit Collection at the Petit Palais, and loans from the Louvre Museum. New photography campaigns will highlight the stylistic and typological characteristics of these bronzes, in which various specific artistic trends and schools can be recognized. They bear witness to a certain know-how in vogue among the aristocratic and wealthy classes of Mediterranean society at this time. This richly illustrated and particularly carefully crafted book will offer an analysis of the tastes and practices of a particular society at a given time in the Mediterranean. It will also present the origin of bronzes, the models and schools, and finally the process of casting operations and the techniques, sometimes very elaborate, of bronze makers in Antiquity.