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“A Fracture in Time”: A Cup Attributed to the Euaion Painter from the Bothmer Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2015

Christos Tsirogiannis  and
David W. J. Gill
Christos Tsirogiannis
Affiliation:
Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, University of Glasgow. Email: christos.tsirogiannis@glasgow.ac.uk.
David W. J. Gill
Affiliation:
Heritage Futures, University Campus Suffolk. Email: david.gill@ucs.ac.uk.
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Abstract:

In February 2013 Christos Tsirogiannis linked a fragmentary Athenian red-figured cup from the collection formed by Dietrich von Bothmer, former chairman of Greek and Roman Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, to a tondo in the Villa Giulia, Rome. The Rome fragment was attributed to the Euaion painter. Bothmer had acquired several fragments attributed to this same painter, and some had been donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as to the J. Paul Getty Museum. Other fragments from this hand were acquired by the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Princeton University Art Museum. In January 2012 it was announced that some fragments from the Bothmer collection would be returned to Italy, because they fitted vases that had already been repatriated from North American collections. The Euaion painter fragments are considered against the phenomenon of collecting and donating fractured pots.

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International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , November 2014 , pp. 465 - 480
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Copyright © International Cultural Property Society 2015 

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