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• Title:The Sarpedon krater : the life and afterlife of a Greek vase / Nigel Spivey.
  
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• Author/Creator:Spivey, Nigel Jonathan, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Head of Zeus, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NK4645 .S725 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Vases, Greek.
  Vases, Greek--Influence.
  Kraters--Greece.
  Vase-painting, Greek--Themes, motives.
  Heroes in art.
  Death in art.
  
• Description:256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
  
• Series:Landmark library (Head of Zeus (Publisher))
  
• Summary:"Once the pride of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sarpedon krater is a wine-mixing bowl crafted by two Athenians, Euxitheos (who shaped it) and Euphronios (who decorated it), in the late 6thc BC. The moving image Euphronios created for the krater, depicting the stricken Trojan hero Sarpedon being lifted from the battlefield by 'Sleep' (Hypnos) and 'Death' (Thanatos), was to have an influence that endured well beyond Antiquity. Nigel Spivey not only explores the vibrant Athenian civilization that produced the krater, but also reveals how its motifs were elaborated in later Greek art and in the Christian iconography of the Renaissance. He tells the story of a small object, once consigned to the obscurity of an Etruscan tomb - yet a work of art whose influence extends far beyond its size and former confinement. The Sarpedon Krater is a fascinating case-study of the deep classical roots of the ideas and iconography of western art."--Dust jacket flap.
  
• Notes:"An Apollo Book."
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-248) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781786691613 (hardback)
  1786691612 (hardback)
  9781786691606 (ePub ebook)
  
• Contents:'The million-dollar vase'
  Euphronios and 'the pioneers'
  Athens and the symposium
  Epic as education
  An image for the afterlife
  The afterlife of an image (1)
  The afterlife of an image (2)
  Coda
  Appendices.