Fülszöveg
Some idea of the diversity and richness
of Yugoslavian art is presented in the
pages of this book, ranging over every
corner of the country and providing an
overview of seven millennia of creative
activity.
Many of the greates masterpieces are
still at the same sites where they were
conceived and executed—the imposing
11th-12th-century frescos in the By-
zantine churches of Milesevo and So-
pocani, the elegant late Roman and
early Christian mosaics in the palace at
Gamzigrad and basilica of Heraclaea,
the magical "stecak" tombstones dot-
ting the landscapes of Bosnia and Her-
zegovina.
And from the soil itself of this centuri-
es old crossroads of travel have been
unearthed objects of astonishing beau-
ty: the miraculous hammered bronze
Si tula from Vac a, the 4 th-century B.C.
Gold Mask of an Illyrian chieftain, the
superb Archaic Greek Bronze Crater
from Trebeniste, the rhythmically mo-
ving bronze Piping Satyr.
Reaching back into the mists of prehi-...
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Fülszöveg
Some idea of the diversity and richness
of Yugoslavian art is presented in the
pages of this book, ranging over every
corner of the country and providing an
overview of seven millennia of creative
activity.
Many of the greates masterpieces are
still at the same sites where they were
conceived and executed—the imposing
11th-12th-century frescos in the By-
zantine churches of Milesevo and So-
pocani, the elegant late Roman and
early Christian mosaics in the palace at
Gamzigrad and basilica of Heraclaea,
the magical "stecak" tombstones dot-
ting the landscapes of Bosnia and Her-
zegovina.
And from the soil itself of this centuri-
es old crossroads of travel have been
unearthed objects of astonishing beau-
ty: the miraculous hammered bronze
Si tula from Vac a, the 4 th-century B.C.
Gold Mask of an Illyrian chieftain, the
superb Archaic Greek Bronze Crater
from Trebeniste, the rhythmically mo-
ving bronze Piping Satyr.
Reaching back into the mists of prehi-
storic time, spectacular new archeologi-
cal finds at Lepenski Vir in the Danube
Gorge bring into focus pre-Neolithic
stone carvings 7,000 years old in a
technique rediscovered in modern ti-
mes by Brancusi; while the enigmatic
birdlike heads from Predionica, the
dynamic Dupljaje Ritual Chariot, the
terrifying bronze Votive Ring related to
Mycenaean cultures, offer insights into
Vissza