A Genuine Dilemma: The Piombino Apollo and Fraud in the First and Second Century Greco-Roman Art Market

dc.contributor.advisorHurwit, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.authorGarvin, Kaitlyn
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-27T18:41:13Z
dc.date.available2016-10-27T18:41:13Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-27
dc.description.abstractIn 1832, fishermen pulled a full-body bronze sculpture of a youth, now called the Piombino Apollo, from the sea near ancient Populonia. Under life-size, the piece resembles an Archaic kouros, though it has some notable unusual features including an inscription dedicating the supposed image of Apollo to Athena and the signatures of two artists found on a lead tablet hidden within the hollow bronze. These unusual features led scholars to eventually reclassify the piece from an Archaic work of the fifth century to an Archaistic forgery of the second or first century. Few have challenged this reclassification, but this thesis attempts to complicate the application of the word forgery to the Piombino Apollo. Further, it examines whether a contemporary buyer would have been fooled by the sculpture’s “deceptive” traits and offers alternative possibilities to account for the artists’ choices of style, pose, and inscriptions.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20470
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0-US
dc.subjectApolloen_US
dc.subjectForgeryen_US
dc.subjectFrauden_US
dc.subjectGreco-Romanen_US
dc.subjectPiombinoen_US
dc.titleA Genuine Dilemma: The Piombino Apollo and Fraud in the First and Second Century Greco-Roman Art Market
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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