Screen LibraryThe Silver Caesars : a Renaissance mystery /
The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze - magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution - feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work The Twelve Caesars, all rendered in minute, intricate rel...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
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New York, NY : New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
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The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze - magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution - feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work The Twelve Caesars, all rendered in minute, intricate relief. Dispersed in the 1860s, the tazze were reunited in 2014 for the first time since the 19th century, each piece newly photographed to highlight the dazzling detail and show the works as they were originally made. The accompanying essays, written by a team of scholars from around the world, explore t "The twelve monumental silver-gilt standing cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze constitute perhaps the most enigmatic masterpiece of Renaissance European metalwork. Topped with statuettes of the Twelve Caesars, the tazze are decorated with marvelously detailed scenes illustrating the lives of those ancient Roman rulers. The work's origin is unknown, and the ensemble was divided in the nineteenth century and widely dispersed, greatly hampering study. This volume, based on a groundbreaking symposium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines topics ranging from the tazze's representation of |
| Item Description: | The essays in this volume grew out of a symposium held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on June 18 and 19, 2014. An exhibition of the same title was held at the Metropolitan Museum from December 12, 2017 through March 11, 2018, and at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, from April 18 through July 21, 2018. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 218 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-217). |
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9781588396396 1588396398 |
| Index Number: | NK7233 |
| CLC: | J536.1(546)-532 |
| Call Number: | J536.1(546)-532/S587/2014 |
| Contents: | Plates, with excerpts from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, by C. Suetonius Tranquillus / translated by Mary Beard -- Suetonius, the Silver Caesars, and mistaken identities / Mary Beard -- Renaissance intellectual culture, antiquarianism, and visual sources / Julia Siemon -- Tracing the origin of the Aldobrandini Tazze / Julia Siemon -- Goldsmithing and commemorative gifts north of the Alps / Wolfram Koeppe -- Tazze: questions of their use and display / Michèle Bimbenet-Privat -- The Aldobrandini Tazze in context: collecting silver in Rome around 1600 / Stefanie Walker -- The Dodici Tazzon |