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Author Stirling, Lea Margaret.

Title The learned collector [electronic resource] : mythological statuettes and classical taste in late antique Gaul / Lea M. Stirling.

Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.

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Description xiii, 320 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-305) and index.
Contents Findspots, functions, and the burden of proof: some questions of methodology -- Late antique villas in southwest Gaul and their sculptural collections -- Issues of style, chronology, and origins -- Paideia and the world of Ausonius of Bordeaux: the social environment of late mythological statuary -- Learned collectors across the empire -- Statuary, paideia, and collecting: conclusions.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Mythology, Classical, in art.
Marble sculpture, Roman -- France, Southwest.
Figurines -- France, Southwest.
Sculpture -- Collectors and collecting -- France, Southwest.
France, Southwest -- Antiquities, Roman.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0472114336 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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