Les bronzes étrusques. - HUS, A.,
KORTE INHOUD
?Greek bronzes have long been the subject of intensive study and classification, with the results that there now exist a number of publications providing information on such topics as their stylistic development, their regional schools, their significance and uses, the technical processes of their manufacture. But no such comprehensive work has hitherto been attempted for Etruscan bronzes. The task of writing a handbook on Etruscan bronzes is indeed a peculiarly difficult one, for unlike Greek art, Etruscan art does not develop logically, but steers an erratic and wayward course, sometimes responding, in locally varying degrees to stimuli from outside (the Near East and Greece), sometimes going its won fanciful way. Moreover, the problem is aggravated by the fact that many of the Etruscan bronzes in our museums come from old collections or from clandestine excavations and so have no provenance and consequently no value for the establishment of regional styles. This brave attempt by Professor Hus to supply the...
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Bruxelles, 1975. 164,75p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Series: Collection Latomus, volume 139.Antiquarian
?Greek bronzes have long been the subject of intensive study and classification, with the results that there now exist a number of publications providing information on such topics as their stylistic development, their regional schools, their significance and uses, the technical processes of their manufacture. But no such comprehensive work has hitherto been attempted for Etruscan bronzes. T...
?Greek bronzes have long been the subject of intensive study and classification, with the results that there now exist a number of publications providing information on such topics as their stylistic development, their regional schools, their significance and uses, the technical processes of their manufacture. But no such comprehensive work has hitherto been attempted for Etruscan bronzes. T...
