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The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the richest and most varied representation, outside Cyprus, of Cypriot antiquities. These works were purchased by the newly established Museum in the mid-1870s from General Luigi Palma di Cesnola, a Civil War cavalry officer who had amassed the objects while serving as the American consul on Cyprus. The Cesnola Collection was the earliest acquisition of Mediterranean antiquities by the Museum and constituted its primary display of archaeological material. In 1879 Cesnola became the Museums first director, a position that he held until his death in 1904. This splendid catalogue is published on the occasion of the opening of the Museums four permanent galleries for ancient art from Cyprus. It is also the first scholarly publication since 1914 devoted to the Cesnola Collection (which totals approximately six thousand objects). The volume features some five hundred pieces from the collection, illustrated in superb new color photography. Dating from about 2500 B.C. to about A.D. 300, these works rank among the finest examples of Cypriot art from the prehistoric, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. Amo

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Author

Vassos Karageorghis; Vassos Karageorghis; Joan Mertens; Marice Rose

Publisher

The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870999444

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Arts