“Prove harmony like higher mathematics…”: On the one amazing product by the Greek goldsmiths: is it a masterpiece?

E. A. Savostina

doi:10.28995/2686-7249-2023-1-169-180

“Prove harmony like higher mathematics…”: On the one amazing product by the Greek goldsmiths: is it a masterpiece?

E. A. Savostina

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-1-169-180

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Abstract

These materials are devoted to the golden ornamental plaques showing the figure of a Scythian horseman used as an appliqué for dress, and ultimately – to the question of the origin of a the matrix according which they were manufactured. Here an iconographic analysis of the object is proposed, a group of related monuments is presented, and the results of the analysis carried out are presented, using natural scientific methods. Thanks to one non-standard idea, the procedure for such a study was formulated, and could be carried out.

Keywords

metalwork (archaeology), Scythian burial-mounds, ancient Greek Art, toreutics, Black Sea Archaeology and Art history,

About the Author

E. A. Savostina

The Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institut
Russian Federation

Elena A. Savostina, Dr. of Sci (Art Studies)

30, Tovarishchesky Line, Moscow, 109544

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For citation: Savostina E.A. “Prove harmony like higher mathematics…”: On the one amazing product by the Greek goldsmiths: is it a masterpiece? RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2023;(1(2)):169-180. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-1-169-180

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