Dangerous Perfection: Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy kids Grounded in meticulous archival explorations

Grounded in meticulous archival explorations

and an insightful meditation on living as an artist

fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation

and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future

and its connections to the people and ideas that shaped Europe’s great picture galleries

Dangerous Perfection: Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy kids Grounded in meticulous archival explorationsEdited by Ursula Kstner and David Saunders In 2008, the Berlin Antikensammlung initiated a project with the J. Paul Getty Museum to conserve a group of ancient funerary vases from southern Italy. Monumental in scale and richly decorated, these magnificent vessels were discovered in hundreds of fragments in the early nineteenth century at Ceglie, near Bari. Acquired by a Bohemian diplomat, they were reconstructed in the Neapolitan workshop of Raffaele