Mythical stones : the appeal of engraved gems in the age of Augustus [videorecording] / [lecture by] Dimitris Plantzos; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Mythical stones : the appeal of engraved gems in the age of Augustus [videorecording] / [lecture by] Dimitris Plantzos; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Valuable and luxurious, engraved gems were popular with educated elites as well as the underprivileged during the early Roman Empire. Gem-cutters, most of them Greek or trained by Greeks, developed an innovative style that combined old classicist traits with new mythological symbolism. Lecturer Dimitris Plantzos, professor of classical archaeology at the University of Ioannina in Greece, traces the artistic development and social significance of intaglios and cameos, drawing upon archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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