A Metropolitan Museum of Art Publication The most important collection of Cypriot antiquities outside Cyprus is the Cesnola Collection at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, assembled by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the first director of the museum. Cesnola was a Civil War veteran who went to Cyprus in 1866 and, in excavations there, sought to rival the finds of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy. Now, on the occasion of the redesign of the Metropolitan's Cypriot galleries, comes this gorgeously illustrated catalogue of some 500 objects, ranging from glass, stone sculpture, and terra-cotta figurines to lamps, pottery, and jewelry. The Cesnola Collection includes works that are among the finest examples of Cypriot art from the prehistoric, Archaic, Classical/Hellenistic, and Roman periods. The first scholarly catalogue since 1914 of a large selection from the Cesnola Collection, this volume will be an invaluable reference.

Ancient Art From Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection

Arts & Photography

KARAGEORGHIS, Vassos

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Yale University Press

Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

A detailed survey of the history, culture, and everyday life of Cyprus examines how archeology reveals the political and social development of the island

Cyprus: From the Stone Age to the Romans (Ancient Peoples & Places)

History

Americas

Thames&Hudson

Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician discoveries in Cyprus (New aspects of antiquity)

Thames and Hudson

Karageorghis, Vassos, View from the Bronze Age: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries at

View from the bronze age: Mycenaean and Phoenician discoveries at Kition

Dutton

Here is a vividly written and fully illustrated assessment of the figured decoration on Late Bronze Age vessels from the Greek mainland, Cyprus, and the Aegean islands. It will become a standard source on the Mycenaean imagination.
Emily Vermeuele and Vassos Karageorghis describe the hunting scenes, chariots, sphinxes and griffins, bulls and birds, people dancing or fighting, and cult scenes on Mycenaean pottery. They analyze forms and styles, sources and influences, and the development of conventions. They relate what is known about the painters and their workshops, and the overseas trade. A catalogue of the 700 remaining whole and broken examples, now in museums around the world, is appended. Over 950 illustrations provide a comprehensive view of the art.
This study tells us much about Bronze Age civilization, and it opens the way to an understanding of the relationship of Greek art to figure drawing in pre-Classical times.

Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting

Vermeule, Emily

Ancient Civilizations

Harvard University Press

Ancient Cyprus: 7,000 Years of Art and Archaeology

Africa

Louisiana State Univ Pr

A Metropolitan Museum of Art Publication The most important collection of Cypriot antiquities outside Cyprus is the Cesnola Collection at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, assembled by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the first director of the museum. Cesnola was a Civil War veteran who went to Cyprus in 1866 and, in excavations there, sought to rival the finds of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy. Now, on the occasion of the redesign of the Metropolitan's Cypriot galleries, comes this gorgeously illustrated catalogue of some 500 objects, ranging from glass, stone sculpture, and terra-cotta figurines to lamps, pottery, and jewelry. 
The Cesnola Collection includes works that are among the finest examples of Cypriot art from the prehistoric, Archaic, Classical/Hellenistic, and Roman periods. The first scholarly catalogue since 1914 of a large selection from the Cesnola Collection, this volume will be an invaluable reference. 
260 illustrations, 250 in full color, 5 line drawings, 8 1/2 x 11" 
VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS has authored numerous scholarly volumes and articles on Cypriot antiquities, published in the United States, Europe, and Cyprus. 
JOAN R. MERTENS is curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. MARICE E. ROSE is research associate, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkNew galleries opening in

Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reference

Mertens, Joan R.

Mertens, Joan

Rose, Marice

Rose, Marice E.

Catalogs & Directories

Harry N. Abrams

Color frontis. + xiii + 305 pp. with 323 illus. (304 in color), 2 maps, 4to.

Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Censola Collection

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

This book is a comprehensive panorama of the two periods of Cypriote archaeology-the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1150 B.C.) and the Geometric and Archaic periods (ca. 1050-500 B.C.)--that have been in the spotlight as a result of the renewed interest in the study of Phoenician civilization and the Phoenician expansion to the west, in which Cyprus played a leading role. The periods covered in this book are of supreme importance in the development of the ancient civilization of Cyprus, and special attention is paid to the interconnections in the Mediterranean in order to explain the phenomena of Cypriote culture. An extensive and up-to-date bibliography is included.

Early Cyprus: Crossroads of the Mediterranean

Oxford University Press

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