Antonio Corso
Biographic Data
| ID | 4213199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Corso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Corso |
| SIGNATURE | CORSO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus, ʻAnastasios G. Leventis’ Foundation, 1 Panepistimiou Avenue, 2109 Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8090-4274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Swimming Nymphs
The paper focuses on the amphora of the Attic Priam Painter dated around 510 B.C., found in Etruria, now kept in Rome at Museo di Villa Giulia. On the A side, Dionysus sits under a canopy of fruit-bearing vines while Satyrs pluck grapes in the surroundings of very luxuriant vegetation. On the B side, seven young dark-skinned nude girls or nymphs are either swimming or about to swim in the open sea, leaving their garments and accessories on boughs…
The Front of a Temple and Swimming Girls by the Andokides Painter (around 520 BC)
This article focuses on an amphora by the Andokides Painter which dates in the late sixth-century BC , representing naked girls who swim in a basin of water with fish in front of a building endowed with a column and an architrave. Several considerations lead to the conclusion that these girls are young Athenian females in the sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia, in front of the temple built by Peisistratos. Thus, we may have the first representation o…
Siracusani ad Anfipoli. Considerazioni su un dimenticato evento storico e sul suo possibile impatto nella vita culturale, letteraria e figurativa di Anfipoli
The aim of this note is to review the passage of Polyaenus, Stratagemata 5. 2. 12. The seizure of Amphipolis by the Syracusans, narrated by Polyaenus, may have taken place in 388, when Dionysius I sent a war fleet to the northern Aegean Sea. The presence of Syracusans in the city on river Strymon may have had an impact on the cultural, religious and artistic life of Amphipolis. In particular, the kidnapping of Kore by Hades on a carriage driven b…
The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia in the Ancient World
Introduction ; Escaping the community in Archaic Greece ; The Homeric / Geometric period ; The Orientalising period ; The High and Late Archaic periods ; The Early Classical Period ; Historical and literary evidence ; The visual evidence ; The Mid Classical Period ; The historical and literary evidence ; The visual evidence ; The Late Classical Period ; The historical and literary evidence ; The evidence in architecture and the visual arts ; The …
When and Why Ancient Art Became Anonymous
In this article, the problem of why ancient art became anonymous in late antiquity is discussed. There are aesthetic reasons: the visual arts are no longer thought to respond to the mimesis but to the ‘phantasia’, thus the images have a transcendent origin and are no longer attributed to specific artists. Moreover, the passage of the Roman Empire from a constitutional monarchy to an absolutistic one implies that monuments are now attributed espec…
New Finds Regarding the Architecture and Sculptures of Ancient Tenea
Excavations in 2019 and 2020 in ancient Tenea revealed a main part of the city’s central web with public buildings totaling approximately 1.100 square meters. In particular, part of a public bath complex of Roman times was excavated, as well as part of an area of the Archaic times of religious significance. Several fragmentary statues have been found in the excavation of ancient Tenea and illustrate the visual culture of this centre from the seve…
Myths and cults of ancient Tenea
Since 2013, an excavation is being carried out in Chiliomodi, Corinthia, where ancient Tenea was located. Ancient sources give us very useful information about its topographic location and associate to with extremely important myths, such as the mythical cycle of the Trojan War and the myth of Oedipus. According to ancient literature, the main deity worshiped in Tenea was Apollo. Archaeological excavations have revealed a wealth of data that indi…
Fra Giocondo e i monumenti di Atene
This paper focuses on the important scholar and antiquarian Giovanni Giocondo from Verona and in particular his two editions of the De architectura of Vitruvius published in 1511 and in 1513. Two illustrations of this friar are related to the two Vitruvian passages concerning the female architectural supports called Caryatids and the Tower of the Winds at Athens. A careful study of these two drawings leads to the conclusion that they cannot depen…
Observations concerning a new book about Praxiteles
This short book devoted to the most important Athenian sculptor of late classical times is composed of an introduction (pp. XI-XII), a first chapter about the life of the artist (pp. 3-5), a second chapter about the works of Praxiteles (pp. 9-14), a third chapter about original works and copies attributed to this master (pp. 17-39), a fourth chapter about his own style (pp. 43-49), and finally a fifth chapter about written testimonia
Retrieving the Style of Cephisodotus the Younger
Editio externa
Love as Suffering
LOVE AS SUFFERING: THE EROS OF THESPIAE OF PRAXITELES ANTONIO CORSO ANTONIO CORSO Athens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, December 1998, Pages 63–91, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1998.tb00724.x Published: 12 March 2010
Vitruvius and Attic Monuments
The aims of this article are to establish the extent of Vitruvius's knowledge of Athens, the other sources of his information on the city, and his preference for Hellenistic rather than Classical monuments. The following passages are analyzed: i, 6, 4, on the Tower of the Winds; ii, 1, 5, on a hut on the Areopagus; ii, 8, 9, on a wall at Athens which looks to Mt. Hymettus and Pentelicus, to be identified perhaps with the Long Walls between Athens…
Love as Suffering
LOVE AS SUFFERING: THE EROS OF THESPIAE OF PRAXITELES ANTONIO CORSO ANTONIO CORSO Athens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, December 1998, Pages 63–91, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1998.tb00724.x Published: 12 March 2010
Vitruvius and Attic Monuments
The aims of this article are to establish the extent of Vitruvius's knowledge of Athens, the other sources of his information on the city, and his preference for Hellenistic rather than Classical monuments. The following passages are analyzed: i, 6, 4, on the Tower of the Winds; ii, 1, 5, on a hut on the Areopagus; ii, 8, 9, on a wall at Athens which looks to Mt. Hymettus and Pentelicus, to be identified perhaps with the Long Walls between Athens…
Love as Suffering
LOVE AS SUFFERING: THE EROS OF THESPIAE OF PRAXITELES ANTONIO CORSO ANTONIO CORSO Athens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, December 1998, Pages 63–91, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1998.tb00724.x Published: 12 March 2010
Editio externa
Retrieving the Style of Cephisodotus the Younger
Observations concerning a new book about Praxiteles
This short book devoted to the most important Athenian sculptor of late classical times is composed of an introduction (pp. XI-XII), a first chapter about the life of the artist (pp. 3-5), a second chapter about the works of Praxiteles (pp. 9-14), a third chapter about original works and copies attributed to this master (pp. 17-39), a fourth chapter about his own style (pp. 43-49), and finally a fifth chapter about written testimonia
Fra Giocondo e i monumenti di Atene
This paper focuses on the important scholar and antiquarian Giovanni Giocondo from Verona and in particular his two editions of the De architectura of Vitruvius published in 1511 and in 1513. Two illustrations of this friar are related to the two Vitruvian passages concerning the female architectural supports called Caryatids and the Tower of the Winds at Athens. A careful study of these two drawings leads to the conclusion that they cannot depen…
When and Why Ancient Art Became Anonymous
In this article, the problem of why ancient art became anonymous in late antiquity is discussed. There are aesthetic reasons: the visual arts are no longer thought to respond to the mimesis but to the ‘phantasia’, thus the images have a transcendent origin and are no longer attributed to specific artists. Moreover, the passage of the Roman Empire from a constitutional monarchy to an absolutistic one implies that monuments are now attributed espec…
New Finds Regarding the Architecture and Sculptures of Ancient Tenea
Excavations in 2019 and 2020 in ancient Tenea revealed a main part of the city’s central web with public buildings totaling approximately 1.100 square meters. In particular, part of a public bath complex of Roman times was excavated, as well as part of an area of the Archaic times of religious significance. Several fragmentary statues have been found in the excavation of ancient Tenea and illustrate the visual culture of this centre from the seve…
Myths and cults of ancient Tenea
Since 2013, an excavation is being carried out in Chiliomodi, Corinthia, where ancient Tenea was located. Ancient sources give us very useful information about its topographic location and associate to with extremely important myths, such as the mythical cycle of the Trojan War and the myth of Oedipus. According to ancient literature, the main deity worshiped in Tenea was Apollo. Archaeological excavations have revealed a wealth of data that indi…
Siracusani ad Anfipoli. Considerazioni su un dimenticato evento storico e sul suo possibile impatto nella vita culturale, letteraria e figurativa di Anfipoli
The aim of this note is to review the passage of Polyaenus, Stratagemata 5. 2. 12. The seizure of Amphipolis by the Syracusans, narrated by Polyaenus, may have taken place in 388, when Dionysius I sent a war fleet to the northern Aegean Sea. The presence of Syracusans in the city on river Strymon may have had an impact on the cultural, religious and artistic life of Amphipolis. In particular, the kidnapping of Kore by Hades on a carriage driven b…
The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia in the Ancient World
Introduction ; Escaping the community in Archaic Greece ; The Homeric / Geometric period ; The Orientalising period ; The High and Late Archaic periods ; The Early Classical Period ; Historical and literary evidence ; The visual evidence ; The Mid Classical Period ; The historical and literary evidence ; The visual evidence ; The Late Classical Period ; The historical and literary evidence ; The evidence in architecture and the visual arts ; The …
Swimming Nymphs
The paper focuses on the amphora of the Attic Priam Painter dated around 510 B.C., found in Etruria, now kept in Rome at Museo di Villa Giulia. On the A side, Dionysus sits under a canopy of fruit-bearing vines while Satyrs pluck grapes in the surroundings of very luxuriant vegetation. On the B side, seven young dark-skinned nude girls or nymphs are either swimming or about to swim in the open sea, leaving their garments and accessories on boughs…
The Front of a Temple and Swimming Girls by the Andokides Painter (around 520 BC)
This article focuses on an amphora by the Andokides Painter which dates in the late sixth-century BC , representing naked girls who swim in a basin of water with fish in front of a building endowed with a column and an architrave. Several considerations lead to the conclusion that these girls are young Athenian females in the sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia, in front of the temple built by Peisistratos. Thus, we may have the first representation o…
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