Panticapaeum torso: an approach to stylistic interpretation
No. 4 (31) (2023), Eurasian Heritage
No. 4 (31) (2023)

Panticapaeum torso: an approach to stylistic interpretation

Eurasian Heritage
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2023.04.001
Published 2023-12-29
Irina V. Buzunova
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Panticapaeum torso, sculpture, style, iconography, interpretation, attribution, chronology, context, formal analysis, style-comparative analysis,

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Buzunova I. V. Panticapaeum torso: an approach to stylistic interpretation // The Art of Eurasia, 2023. № 4 (31). P. 14-29. URL: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2023.04.001.
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Abstract

One of the most important aims of Ancient Studies is stylistic, iconographic and chronological identification of art item through methods of style-comparative research and technical-technological analysis. Archaeological description and provenance make it easier but museum items often lack the latter which brings much trouble to a scholar. If so, the scholar has to use all the theoretical methods provided to us by the German Classical scholarship of 19th and early 20th century. Scholars of the next generation cultivated and improved those methods on basis of the formal analysis and style-comparative analysis with regard to historical and cultural context. Their work resulted in interdisciplinary approach to art research which includes History, Archaeology, Philology, and Culturology. Modern methods of research allow us to specify the identification of art items that lack provenance like Panticapaeum torso from Hermitage. The methods rest on discovery of the specific features that help to reveal the item affiliation to some of Ancient art schools. As a result, the art item finds its place in the classification of Ancient sculpture.

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