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The Circular Archetype in Microcosm is the culmination of seven years research into the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. It is the first study of these enigmatic artefacts since that undertaken by Dorothy Marshall in 1977 and includes all currently known examples in both museums and private hands, described and analysed in considerable detail. For the first time, visual geological characterisation has been undertaken on approximately a third of carved stone balls, which has enabled a more detailed analysis of their potential origin and the landscapes in which they were found. The book offers a revised classification/typology of these artefacts which, following careful analysis, suggests that it is possible to determine individual craftspeople with a wide range of skills. It suggests that carved stone balls were used as unique and distinctive gestalts that represented the ideology of the core area of Aberdeenshire and enabled disparate groups to recognise one another.
Stone carving --- Neolithic period --- History. --- Scotland --- Antiquities. --- Stone sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Carving (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Sculpture
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This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis and chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura, dating prior to the famous Kushan period. It includes numerous new attributions of objects based primarily on epigraphic and visual analysis. The sculptures attributable to these pre-Kushan periods reveal new evidence for the reasons behind the emergence of the anthropomorphic image of the Buddha at Mathura, the predominance of a heterodox sect of Jainism, and the proliferation of cults of nature divinities. This book provides a wealth of reference material useful for historians of early Indian art, religion, and epigraphy. The book is illustrated with over three hundred photographs, and it includes epigraphic appendices with complete transcriptions and updated translations.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Sculpture, Ancient --- Sculpture, Mathurā. --- Stone carving --- Sculpture, Mathurā --- Stone sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Carving (Decorative arts) --- Sculpture --- Mathurā sculpture --- Ancient sculpture --- Architectural decoration and ornament --- Architecture --- Architectural design --- Exterior walls --- Decoration and ornament --- Sculpture, Mathurā. --- Sculpture, Mathura.
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This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental sculpture known as the 'potbelly' that traces its antecedents to earlier, small domestic ritual objects and ceramic figurines. The cessation of domestic rituals involving ceramic figurines along the Pacific slope coincided not only with the creation of the first monumental potbelly sculptures, but with the rise of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica by the advent of the Late Preclassic period. The potbellies became central to the physical representation of new forms of social identity and expressions of political authority during this time of dramatic change.
Maya sculpture. --- Olmec sculpture. --- Indian sculpture --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Sculpture, Olmec --- Olmec art --- Sculpture, Mexican --- Mayas --- Sculpture, Maya --- Maya art --- Sculpture, Central American --- Sculpture --- Stone-sculpture --- Social Sciences --- Archeology
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Russell provides an examination of the production, distribution and use of carved stone objects in the Roman world. Focusing on the market for stone and its supply, he offers an assessment of the practicalities of stone transport and how the relationship between producer and customer functioned even over considerable distances.
Stone industry and trade --- Stone --- Stone carving --- Pierre --- Sculpture en pierre --- History --- Transportation --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Transport --- Rome --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- History. --- Conditions économiques --- Stone sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Carving (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Sculpture --- E-books --- Building materials industry
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The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained extremely limited. The present book aims at filling this knowledge gap. With this richly illustrated book, the first of its kind, Van der Geer offers a comparative study of the ways in which various animals have been depicted and a lucid analysis of the sculptors’ treatment of their “models”: living animals. The art history of sculptured animals is contextualized with a description of the use of animals as can be read from ancient texts, archaeological evidence and contemporaneous culture. In doing so, parallels as well as differences in style or iconography are highlighted, elucidating the variety of animal depictions across regions, religious contexts and through time. The corpus of discussed material ranges from Indus seals, stupa panels and railings, monumental temples from North and South India, non-religious palace and fort architecture to loose sculptures in museum collections.
Animal sculpture --- Animals --- Stone carving --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Zoology --- Stone sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Carving (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Sculpture --- Animals in art --- Mythology --- Animal sculpture - India --- Stone carving - India --- Animals - India --- Animals - Mythology - India
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Sculpture, English --- Sculpture, Romanesque --- Stone carving --- Themes, motives. --- Thomas, --- Cult --- Canterbury Cathedral. --- Stone sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Carving (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Sculpture --- Romanesque sculpture --- Sculpture, Medieval --- English sculpture --- Becket, Thomas à, --- Becket, Thomas, --- Thomas --- Christ Church (Canterbury, England) --- Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral --- Thomas Cantuariensis
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Stone statues, indigenous to the early Turks, appeared in the vast territory of the Asian steppes, from Southern Siberia to Central Asia and across the foothills of the Ural Mountains. The custom originated among Cumans in Eastern Europe. The skill of erecting anthropomorphic stelae required proficiency in processing different kinds of stone and wood, and was characterized by artistic value of representations, as well as by the timeless aesthetics of the canon. The author presents the results of her formative studies into the collection of the Cuman sculptures of the Veliko-Anadol Forest Museum, Ukraine. The book delves into the history of research on Cuman stone stelae, resulting in great reading for all archeologists and historians alike.
Stele (Archaeology) --- Stone carving --- Kipchak (Turkic people) --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Sculpture --- Conservation and restoration --- Antiquities --- Coman (Turkic people) --- Cuman (Turkic people) --- Kipchak --- Kuman (Turkic people) --- Polovtsi (Turkic people) --- Polovtsy (Turkic people) --- Ethnology --- Turkic peoples --- Stone sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Carving (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Stela (Archaeology) --- Stelae (Archaeology) --- Stelai (Archaeology) --- Steles (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Menhirs --- Antiquities. --- Archeology. --- Cumans. --- Monumental Sculpture. --- Qipchak (Turkic people) --- Qipchaq (Turkic people)
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Grief binds the worshipers together in an adagio of sorrow as they encounter the sculptural representation of the Entombment of Christ. Located in funerary chapels, parish churches, cemeteries, and hospitals, these works embody the piety of the later Middle Ages. In this book, Donna Sadler examines the sculptural Entombments from Burgundy and Champagne through a variety of lenses, including performance theory, embodied perception, and the invocation of the absent presence of the Holy Sepulcher. The author demonstrates how the action of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus entombing Christ in the presence of the Marys and John operates in a commemorative and collective fashion: the worshiper enters the realm of the holy and becomes a participant in the biblical event.
Iconography --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Champagne-Ardennes --- Burgundy --- Stone carving --- Art and society --- Sculpture en pierre --- Art et société --- History --- Histoire --- Jesus Christ --- Burial --- Art. --- Art et société --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Stone sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Carving (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Sculpture --- Social aspects --- Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- عيسىٰ --- Death and burial
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