The Horse and Jockey from Artemision [Repost]

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The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period by Sean Hemingway
English | 25 Jun. 2004 | ISBN: 0520233085 | 248 Pages | PDF | 5.16 MB

In 1928, and again in 1937, parts of a large-scale bronze horse and nearly complete jockey were recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision in Greece, where they had gone down in a shipwreck. These original Hellenistic sculptures, known together as the 'Horse and Jockey Group from Artemision', are among the very few surviving bronze sculptures from antiquity. Sean Hemingway has been allowed by the National Museum in Athens to investigate the horse and jockey statuary group as no one ever has before, and in this book, combining archaeological and art historical methods of investigation, he provides the first in-depth study of this rare and beautiful monument. New technical analyses of the statues by Helen Andreopoulou-Mangou form an appendix to the volume.