Free-Standing Statues: Set up in the Sanctuary and Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus at Athens

Free-standing statues : set up in the sanctuary and theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus at Athens Author: Antonio Corso In this monograph all the known free-standing sculptures are collected, which may have been set up in the Sanctuary and Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus and in the surrounding areas from the late Archaic to the early Hellenistic period. The research on how statues in several choregic monuments looked like is also investigated in this study. The primary destinations of the original statues of renowned sculptural types such as the Resting Satyr, the Capitoline Aphrodite, the Artemis Versailles and the type Woburn Abbey Dionysos are analysed and it is suggested that they were originally set up in Sanctuary and Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus or in the surrounding areas. Furthermore, this study reflects on the contribution of the monuments in the Sanctuary of Dionysos in this central part of Athens at the South Slope of the Akropolis, and finally the study ends with an investigation of the unfolding of the Athenian visual arts throughout the centuries from the Archaic period unwards.INDEXIntroductionPART 1. DIONYSOS: STATUE TYPESChapter 1. Cult Statues of Dionysos Chapter 2. Statue Types of DionyosPART 2. MONUMENTS CELEBRATING THEATRICAL PERFORMANCESChapter 3 Monuments of Theatrical LifeChapter 4. Street of Tripods: PraxitelesChapter 5. The Statues of the Thrasyllos MonumentPART 3. INSIDE THE THEATRE OF DIONYSOS ELEUTHEREUSChapter 6. Eros, Love and Aphrodite in the Theatre of Dionysos EleuthereusChapter 7. New Comedy and Statues of Personifications in the Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus Chapter 8. Queen Niobe of Thebes and Her Sad FateChapter 9. Portraits of LegendsChapter 10: The Athenian Centre of High CultureBibliographyL’AUTORE: Antonio Corso got his degrees at the University of Padua, he was curator of the Museum of Archaeologic Sciences and Art of this University, then he was awarded several senior fellowships (British Academy, Onassis, European Institutes of Advanced Study etc.), he lectured at Cologne, Berlin, London, Aix en Provence, Athens, Nicosia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Budapest), he published 214 scientific works which include 17 books, he is specialized in classical Greek sculpture, in particular Praxiteles, history of ideas, literary testimonia on visual arts, especially Vitruvius and Pliny, fortune of ancient art at Constantinople and ancient visual culture on Cyprus.F.to 17×24, pp. 192, Brossura filo refe, Ill. a colori Subjects: Athens (Greece) / Antiquities Sculpture grecque / Grèce / Athènes Sculpture, Greek / Greece / Athens Theater of Dionysus (Athens, Greece)