Background
Barr-Sharrar, Beryl Daughter of Dean L. and Beryl (McLean) S.
(This beautifully illustrated book represents the first fu...)
This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered. Found in an undisturbed Macedonian tomb of the late 4th century B.C., the volute krater is a tour de force of highly sophisticated methods of bronze working. An unusual program of iconography informs every area of the vessel. Snakes with copper and silver inlaid stripes frame the rising handles, wrapping their bodies around masks of underworld deities. On the shoulder sit four cast bronze figures: on one side a youthful Dionysos with an exhausted maenad, on the other a sleeping Silenos and a maenad handling a snake. In the major repoussé frieze on the body a bearded hunter is associated with Dionysian figures. What was the function of this extraordinary object? And what is the meaning of the intricate iconography? The krater is placed in its Macedonian archaeological context as an heirloom of the descendants of the man named in the Thessalian inscription on its rim, and in its art historical context as a highly elaborated, early 4th-century, version of a metal type known in Athens by about 470 B.C. Contains 47 color and 167 b/w illustrations.
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Barr-Sharrar, Beryl Daughter of Dean L. and Beryl (McLean) S.
Bachelor in Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, 1956. Master of Arts in Studio Art, University California, Berkeley, 1958. Master of Arts in Art History, Institute Fine Arts New York University, 1972.
Doctor of Philosophy in Classical Archaeology, Institute Fine Arts New York University, 1980.
Co-founder, director College Art Study Abroad, Paris, 1960—1968. Visiting professor Mount Holyoke College, 1968-1969. Faculty Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1978-1979.
Visiting professor Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 1981-1982, Fordham University, New York City, 1983—1984, 2002—2003, Hunter College, City University New York, 2004—2005. Adjunct professor SCPS, New York University, 2002—2007, Institute Fine Arts, New York University, since 2008.
(This beautifully illustrated book represents the first fu...)
(Volume I)
Author: The Derveni Krater: MasterPiece of Classical Greek Metalwork, 2008, The Hellenistic and Early Imperial Decorative Bust, 1987. Editor & contributor Macedonia and Greece in the Fourth Century British Columbia, 1982. Contributor over 100 articles & reviews to scholarly journals.
Various solo and group painting exhibitions.
Member American Institute Archaeology, College Art Association, Association Ancient Historians.