John Pollini Livres

This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication of a cache of eight bronzes from east-central Gaul. The types of objects and accompanying inscriptions suggest that these bronzes originally came from a sanctuary of a god named Cobannus.The first part of the book describes, analyzes, and interprets the individual objects, which are divided between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Shelby White - Leon Levy Collection. The latter part of this work places the cache within a chronological, cultic, and cultural context.The Cobannus hoard is valuable not only from an artistic point of view but also for the information it provides on many different aspects of the religious, social, and political life of Roman Gaul. The book is lavishly illustrated, with 2 maps and 117 illustrations.

Among the more brilliant creations of Archaic Greek sculpture is the almost life-size 'de Nion Head', believed to have come from the northern Peloponnese. The Head, which once formed part of an equestrian figure, possibly represents one of the divine Twins, the Dioskouroi. This head of a rider, carved in Naxian marble, was created about 550-554 B. C., at the very outset of the ripe Archaic period. Various pieces of circumstantial evidence indicate that the Nion sculpture may have been created by some unknown master sculptor from Sykion, a prominent city in the northern Peloponnese in the second quarter at the sixth century B. C. Whatever its provenance, the de Nion Head merits inclusion among the masterpiece of Archaic Greek sculpture, on a par with such works as the famous Rampin Horseman.