Attic document reliefs
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Clarendon Press (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780198149552 |
| Open Library | OL3752758W |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 1995 - 1995 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 23 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
This book is a comprehensive study of all the known reliefs carved above inscribed documents, such as decrees or financial accounts, in Classical and Hellenistic Athens. Carol Lawton provides a completely fresh re-assessment of the meaning, style, function, and historical context of these reliefs, and places them in the history of Greek art. She brings together for the first time photographs and full descriptions of all the reliefs. Professor Lawton argues that the reliefs were not, as often assumed, private self-aggrandizing commissions of the secretaries or honorands named in the documents, but rather integral parts of the official publications, their context inextricable from and complementary to the stylistic and iconographic characteristics peculiar to the genre of document reliefs. Professor Lawton also discusses the usefulness of these reliefs for the comparative dating of other Greek sculpture.
Style And Chronology
Document reliefs are regularly used to provide a dated framework for discussions of the stylistic development of Attic sculpture of the second half of the fifth and fourth centuries. Such discussions often fail to recognize, however, that document reliefs, like architectural relief or the various types of grave relief, constitute a distinctive class of Attic sculpture with characteristics of its own. Any attempt to describe the stylistic developm…
Iconography
The widespread tendency to regard document reliefs as indistinguishable from votive reliefs is primarily the result of the attention paid to the formal characteristics of the reliefs at the expense of their content. Most document reliefs were set up in sanctuaries, indicating that they had a votive function, and the reliefs themselves, especially those on decrees concerning cults, resemble votive reliefs in a number of respects, yet document reli…
The Stelai
Inscribed documents with reliefs were erected by a number of Attic institutions and groups, but in their content they fall predominantly into two main categories, honorary decrees for individuals, and alliances and other agreements with foreign states. They also occur, although much less frequently, on accounts and inventories, on documents concerning cults and sanctuaries, on public dedications, and on several unusual documents that do not fit i…
Attic Document Reliefs
A unique, fully illustrated, and fascinating study of all the known carved reliefs decorating official inscriptions in classical and Hellenistic Athens. The author's new and illuminating work on the iconography of these reliefs shows how the gods, heroes, and other personifications were not simply decorative, but integral to the overall political message
Attic Document Reliefs
A unique, fully illustrated, and fascinating study of all the known carved reliefs decorating official inscriptions in classical and Hellenistic Athens. The author's new and illuminating work on the iconography of these reliefs shows how the gods, heroes, and other personifications were not simply decorative, but integral to the overall political message
Style And Chronology
Document reliefs are regularly used to provide a dated framework for discussions of the stylistic development of Attic sculpture of the second half of the fifth and fourth centuries. Such discussions often fail to recognize, however, that document reliefs, like architectural relief or the various types of grave relief, constitute a distinctive class of Attic sculpture with characteristics of its own. Any attempt to describe the stylistic developm…
Iconography
The widespread tendency to regard document reliefs as indistinguishable from votive reliefs is primarily the result of the attention paid to the formal characteristics of the reliefs at the expense of their content. Most document reliefs were set up in sanctuaries, indicating that they had a votive function, and the reliefs themselves, especially those on decrees concerning cults, resemble votive reliefs in a number of respects, yet document reli…
The Stelai
Inscribed documents with reliefs were erected by a number of Attic institutions and groups, but in their content they fall predominantly into two main categories, honorary decrees for individuals, and alliances and other agreements with foreign states. They also occur, although much less frequently, on accounts and inventories, on documents concerning cults and sanctuaries, on public dedications, and on several unusual documents that do not fit i…
Attic Document Reliefs
A unique, fully illustrated, and fascinating study of all the known carved reliefs decorating official inscriptions in classical and Hellenistic Athens. The author's new and illuminating work on the iconography of these reliefs shows how the gods, heroes, and other personifications were not simply decorative, but integral to the overall political message