Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago

The Classical Collection

This catalogue presents a representative selection of the approximately 800 antiquities at the Smart Museum, with a historiographical introduction that traces the formation of the collection in relationship to the pedagogical ideals of the university and the interests of single members of the faculty. Some of the objects have been published before, but most have not. Among the latter are pieces of substantial scholarly and artistic interest, such as the Archaic bronze basin of Near Eastern manufacture said to come from a Cumaean grave; Attic Lekythos in Six's Technique with the earliest representation of Pan with Eros; and the portrait of a child with a "Horus lock," which joins the short list of such images of children dedicated to Dionysus.

Edited by Gloria Ferrari, Christina M. Nielsen, and Kelly Olson

$40
Paper, 226 pages, 19 color plates, 238 black and white images
ISBN: 0-935573-25-9
© 1998