The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia: Volume One: Early and Middle Apulian

Near Fine in publishers cloth in slightly creased dustjacket with small chip on rear panel. 1st edition, 1st issue of detailed Monograph and much superior to the Digital Reprint. The total number of extant Apulian red-figured vases cannot fall far short of 10,000, and the present work (the first of two volumes) is the first attempt to survey the history and development of the fabric as a whole, from its beginnings in the later fifth century BC to its end around 300. It does not attempt to give a complete corpus, but the authors have tried to include all the more significant workshops and to give a representative selection of the minor pieces. Many Apulian vases display a very high level of technical and artistic competence, and the representations upon them are often of remarkable interest, not only for their illustrations of mythological and theatrical themes but also for the light they shed upon the daily life, customs, and religious beliefs of the Greek colonists and native inhabitants of Apulia. ISBN 0198132182.…