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Journal of the History of Collections 2007 19(2):239-247; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm028
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Nola and the historiography of Greek vases

Claire L. Lyons


  Abstract

Cemeteries that encircled the Campanian town of Nola furnished many of the ancient vases most highly sought after by eighteenth-century collectors. Attracted by the exceptional quality of the glazes on what was later recognized as Attic pottery, antiquaries looked to the figured scenes for reflections of lost masterpieces of ancient Greek painting. Enmeshed practices of connoisseurship, scholarship and commerce were already firmly in place by the 1740s. Comparing vases to Old Master drawings and adopting modes of display popular for Continental porzellan-kabinetten, collectors relocated Greek vase painting from the realm of curiosity to that of fine art.

Address for correspondence Claire L. Lyons, Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688, USA. clyons{at}getty.edu


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