Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture

364 Pages·2013·7.45 MB·English

by  Pat Getz-Gentle, Jack de Vries

PERSONAL STYLES
IN EARLY CYCLADIC
SCULPTURE
Pat Getz-Gentle
PERSONAL STYLES
IN EARLY CYCLADIC
SCULPTURE
with a chapter by
Jack de Vries
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Getz-Gentle, Pat.
Personal styles in early Cycladic sculpture /
Pat Getz-Gentle; with a contribution by Jack de Vries.
pp. cm.—(Wisconsin studies in classics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-299-1720060-78 (cloth: alk. paper)
1. Sculpture, Cycladic. 2. Figure sculpture—Greece. I. Vries, Jack
de. II. Title. III. Series.
NB130.C78 G43 2001
733’.3’093915--dc21 00-011013
ISBN 978- 0-2 99-1 7204-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN 978- 0-2 99-1 7203-9 (e-b ook)
Page i: Head of a figure attributable to the Kontoleon Sculptor, shown 1:1. See page 154 [17].
Page ii: Fragmentary figure attributable to the Schuster Sculptor, shown 1:1. See page 168 [13].
For my family and other Cycladophiles
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Maps, Checklists, Charts, and Tables xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
CHAPTER 1 Before the Arms Were Folded: Cycladic Sculpture from the Late Neolithic
through the Transitional Early Cycladic I/II Phase 3
CHAPTER 2 The Reclining Folded-Arm Figure and Its Varieties:
Cycladic Sculpture of the Early Cycladic II Period 29
CHAPTER 3 Sculptors of Early Cycladic I Plastiras Figures 61
CHAPTER 4 Sculptors of Early Cycladic II Reclining Folded-Arm Figures 67
CHAPTER 5 Pattern and Precision: Taking the Measure of Early Cycladic II
Spedos Variety Figures, by Jack de Vries 109
Abbreviations 127
Notes 131
Checklists of Twenty Sculptors 151
Bibliography 171
Notes on the Plates 173
Notes on the Text Figures 179
Addendum 183
Illustration Sources 1893
Illustration Credits 19837
Index 19859
Plates 1971
List of Illustrations
PLATES
1. Late Neolithic standing and sitting figures
2. A Late Neolithic standing figure
3. A Late Neolithic standing figure
4. A figure of Plastiras type
5. Two figures of Plastiras type attributable to one sculptor and a fragmentary precanonical
figure
6. A figure of Plastiras type
7. Violin figures and the torso of the figure in plate 6
8. Hybrid figures
9. A hybrid figure
10. Figures of Louros type
11. A precanonical figure
12. Precanonical figures
13. A precanonical figure
14. A fragmentary precanonical figure
15. Precanonical figures attributable to the Kanellopoulos Museum Sculptor
16. A fragmentary precanonical figure
17. A precanonical figure
18. A precanonical figure
19. A precanonical two-figure composition
20. A precanonical figure
21. A precanonical harp player with elaborate chair
22. Rear views of the works in plates 20 and 21
23. A figure of the Kapsala variety
24. Figures of the Kapsala variety
25. A figure of the Kapsala variety
26. Complete and fragmentary two-figure compositions and a fragmentary harp player (the
legs of the stool are restored)
27. A fragmentary figure of the Kapsala or Early Spedos variety
28. A fragmentary figure of the Early Spedos variety
29. A fragmentary figure of the Late Spedos variety