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Farnese Sarcophagus
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Life Death & Revelry
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Paul Holberton Publishing
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- ISBN 9781911300403
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 239 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In terms of antiquarian fame, the Farnese Sarcophagus – elaborately carved with satyrs and maenads gathering grapes – may be the most important work of art in the Gardner collection, and perhaps of its type in America. A large, rectangular coffin of Pentelic marble, the Farnese Sarcophagus was exported from Athens to the area of Rome in the late Severan period, between c. 222 and 235 AD. The carving of the satyrs and maenads was especially suited to the artistic tastes of Mannerist and Baroque Rome, providing one of the most elegant examples of Greek imperial optic elongation to have survived from ancient times. Life Death & Revelry will offer a multi-disciplinary, multi-era look at this important monument. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, it will bring together archaeological analyses of the piece and its previous restorations, and numerous Renaissance prints and drawings depicting the sarcophagus during its time in Rome.
Christina Nielsen is the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection and Exhibition Program at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She has published widely on ancient and medieval art, and on the history of collecting medieval art in 19th- and 20th-century America. Jerry Podany is Senior Conservator of Antiquities, The Getty; Holly Salmon is Senior Objects Conservator, ISGM; Patrick Crowley is Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago; Anne Varick Lauder is an independent curator and art historian; Chiara Pidatella is a lecturer, Tufts University. The exhibition will feature a contemporary video created by digital artists Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser, members of OpenEndedGroup.
