Taking home Agamemnon
The Casts of the Lion Gate at Mycenae
The Lion Gate at Mycenae is an icon, a piece of art more than 3300 years old, representing the glory of Mycenaean Greece. Preserved in situ, it has passed through time and circumstance, witnessing its own civilisation fail and many others flourishing since. Often considered as an emblem for the royal house of Mycenae, it is the only surviving piece of large-scale sculpture of the Greek Bronze Age. The quality of its creation, its symbolic force, and its prime position towering above the entrance gate to the site that epitomizes a period that gave rise to enumerable legends may be seen as framing the atmosphere in which this book was written. Already in the 19th c., the relief was moulded and casts were produced to be exhibited in museums and universities. This volume traces 33 casts, some no longer existing, and tells their stories.
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Spécifications
- Éditeur
- Presses universitaires de Louvain
- Auteur
- Jan Driessen, Tina Kalantzopoulou,
- Collection
- AEGIS | n° 28
- Langue
- anglais
- BISAC Subject Heading
- SOC003000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
- BIC subject category (UK)
- HD Archaeology > HDD Archaeology by period / region > HDDK Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
- Code publique Onix
- 06 Professionnel et académique
- Date de première publication du titre
- 29 octobre 2024
- Subject Scheme Identifier Code
- : Archéologie
Livre broché
- Date de publication
- 29 octobre 2024
- ISBN-13
- 9782390615149
- Ampleur
- Nombre de pages de contenu principal : 110
- Code interne
- 107592
- Format
- 210 x 297 cm
- Poids
- 27463 grammes
- Type de packaging
- Aucun emballage extérieur
- Prix
- 23,00 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
- Date de publication
- 29 octobre 2024
- ISBN-13
- 9782390615156
- Code interne
- 107592PDF
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Sommaire
Foreword 1
Introduction: Finding the Gate 3
Revealing the Gate 7
Before Schliemann 7
Schliemann at Mycenae 14
Casting the Gate 20
An Athenian mould? 21
A German mould 23
A Malpieri (?) and Martinelli mould 24
Other moulds? 26
Casts of the Lion Gate – existing or no longer so 27
Technical Aspects 59
The Lion Gate 'recast': Taking Home Agamemnon 65
Non-Reception of the cast 65
Appreciating the Lion Gate 66
Recasting the cast 68
References 74
List of Illustrations 89
Index 93