Stirling, Lea Margaret.

The learned collector mythological statuettes and classical taste in late antique Gaul / [electronic resource] : Lea M. Stirling. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005. - xiii, 320 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-305) and index.

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.


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Mythology, Classical, in art.
Marble sculpture, Roman--France, Southwest.
Figurines--France, Southwest.
Sculpture--Collectors and collecting--France, Southwest.


France, Southwest--Antiquities, Roman.


Electronic books.

NB160 / .S75 2005eb

730/.9364