Apotheosis of Homer - vessel CensusID: 10011762

Apotheosis of Homer - vessel
CensusID: 10011762
Location
Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Inventory no. inv. 25301
Description
Class
Type
Material
Present Condition
Original
Number
Descriptive Details
kunstgewerbe (applied arts)
vessel
silver
intact
yes
01
kalathos
Homer carried on the wings of an eagle
garland / festoon
floral ornaments
personifications, 2
Iliad
Odyssey
sitting
draped
shoes
helmets
Dimensions
height: 12, 5 cm
diameter: 15 cm
History
Date of Creation
Early Imperial Roman
Style
Augustan
Artist(s)/Creator(s) unknown
Provenance
Provenance Event(s) Date
Location
Note(s)
Date
Location
ante 1755
Pompei
findspot
1758-1766
Portici, Palazzo Reale
Relationships
Corpus Winckelmann Document(s):
> Winckelmann 1742-1768 (Briefe) > vol. I (1742-1759) > no. 224 > p. 393
> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002) > book 2 > ch. 2 > p. 648 > note 2
> Winckelmann 1766 (Allegorie) > p. 066
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > p. 649 > note 5
> Winckelmann 1762/1997 (Sendschreiben) > p. 056f.
References
Bibliography:
> Arnold Rüsch: Guida illustrata del Museo Nazionale di Napoli, compilata da D. Bassi, E. Gabrici, L.
Mariani a.o., ed. by Arnold Rüsch, Napoli 1908
> pp. 411f., no. 1879
7 Jul 2016 16:15:34
1/2
> Vittorio Spinazzola: Le arti decorative in Pompei e nel Museo Nazionale di Napoli, Rome 1928 > pl.
231
> Ulrico Pannuti: L'apoteosi d'Omero. Vaso argenteo del Museo Nazionale di Napoli, in: Monumenti
antichi. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Ser. misc. 3.2 (1984) > pp. 44-58
> Maria Rosaria Borriello, Marinella Lista, Umberto Pappalardo: Le collezioni del Museo Nazionale di
Napoli, vol. I,1, Rome 1986 > pp. 210f., no. 35
> Marianne Gross, Max Kunze, Wolfram Maharam: Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Sendschreiben
von den Herculanischen Entdeckungen. Herculanische Schriften I, ed. Max Kunze, Stephanie-Gerrit
Bruer, Mainz 1997 > p. 227
> Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Briefe, Entwürfe und Rezensionen zu den Herculanischen Schriften,
Herculanische Schriften III, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunze, Mainz 2001(Johann Joachim
Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlaß II,2) > pp. 29, 220
> Mathias René Hofter, Axel Rügler, Adolf H. Borbein et al.: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums,
Katalog der antiken Denkmäler, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Thomas W. Gaethgens, Johannes
Irmscher, Max Kunze, Mainz 2006 (Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlass IV.2) > p.
531, no. 1297
Comment
inserted:
Thomas Fröhlich
Volker Heenes
7 Jul 2016 16:15:34
2/2