Research Catalog

Title

The Cesnola collection of Cypriot art. Terracotta oil lamps / Christopher S. Lightfoot.

Author

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), author, issuing body.

Publication

• New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
• ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Lightfoot, C. S. (Chris S.)
• Hollein, Max

Description

365 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

This publication, the fourth in a series that meticulously catalogues works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's renowned Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art, focuses on the collection's 453 terracotta oil lamps dating from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Byzantine periods. The rich iconography on many of these common, everyday objects provides a rare look into daily life on Cyprus in antiquity and highlights the island's participation in Roman artistic and cultural production. Each lamp is illustrated, and the accompanying text addresses typology, decoration, and makers' marks on each of these objects. Although these small, utilitarian oil lamps are often overlooked in scholarly studies of the classical world, this close examination reveals their social, cultural, and artistic contexts, which provides new insights into art, craft, and trade in the ancient Mediterranean.

Alternative Title

Terracotta oil lamps

Subject

• Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 1832-1904 > Art collections > Catalogs
• Cesnola Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art) > Catalogs
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) > Catalogs
• Cesnola Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Terra-cotta sculpture, Cypriot > Catalogs
• Lamps, Ancient > Cyprus > Catalogs
• Terra-cotta sculpture > Private collections > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
• Lamps > Private collections > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
• Lamps
• Lamps, Ancient
• Terra-cotta sculpture
• Terra-cotta sculpture, Cypriot
• Cyprus
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-365).

Contents

Director's foreword / Max Hollein -- Preface / Seán Hemingway -- Acknowledgements / Christopher S. Lightfoot -- Introduction: The collection -- Other collections of terracotta lamps from Cyprus -- Typology -- Decoration -- Cesnola, tombs, and lamps -- Makers' marks on Roman lamps -- Notes on the catalogue -- Map of Cyprus -- Catalogue: Chapter 1. Saucer-shaped lamps and related objects (Cat. 1-24) -- Chapter 2. Greek lamp (Cat. 25) -- Chapter 3. Hellenistic Lamps (Cat. 26-73) -- Wheel-made, Cat. 26-39 -- Mold-made, Cat. 40-73 -- Chapter 4. Roman lamps: plain discus (Cat. 74-123) -- Undecorated discus, Cat. 74-114 -- Discus with radiating lines, Cat. 115-123 -- Chapter 5. Roman lamps: rosette discus (Cat. 124-176) -- Chapter 6. Roman lamps: wreath discus (Cat. 177-204) -- Chapter 7. Roman lamps: animals (Cat. 205-270) -- Chapter 8. Roman lamps: daily life (Cat. 271-282) -- Chapter 9. Roman lamps: games, races, and entertainment (Cat. 283-340) -- Chapter 10. Roman lamps: gods and myth (Cat. 341-402) -- Chapter 11. Roman lamps: Jewish and Christian (Cat. 403-416) -- Chapter 12. Miscellaneous lamps (Cat. 417-453) -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Makers' marks on Roman lamps in the Cesnola Collection -- Concordance -- Bibliography

Call Number

JQF 22-230

ISBN

• 1588397246
• 9781588397249

LCCN

2021425164

OCLC

1184234320

Author

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), author, issuing body.

Title

The Cesnola collection of Cypriot art. Terracotta oil lamps / Christopher S. Lightfoot.

Publisher

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-365).

Connect to:

Full text available via MetPublications, The Metropolita Museum of Art, New York

Added Author

Lightfoot, C. S. (Chris S.), author.

Hollein, Max, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-230