The Mausoleum Frieze
Membra Disjectanda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10964768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B F Cook (0000-0003-1400-0506, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Pages | 49-54 |
| Publication date | 1976-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annual of the British School at Athens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0068-2454 • E-ISSN: 2045-2403 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0068245400005773 |
| OpenAlex | W2319374777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Coming as they do from one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the frieze-blocks of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus are among the most celebrated sculptures in the British Museum. In the century since their acquisition, many mutually contradictory attempts have been made to attribute the various slabs to the four sculptors of the Mausoleum as named by Pliny: Skopas, Bryaxis, Timotheos, and Leochares. Most of these attributions have been made by scholars working away from London, apparently chiefly from photographs. A new study of the slabs themselves suggests that the establishment of the integrity of the sculpture is an essential preliminary to the ‘higher criticism’ that has been practised so assiduously. It is therefore the purpose of this note to examine the various fragments that have been attached to the slabs from time to time, and to try to determine whether these joins can be accepted. As Curtius said, ‘Primum monumenta, deinde philosophia’
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Frieze · Sculpture · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |