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  • Title Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting
  • Author David Saunders (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781606067345 / 1606067346
  • Weight 3.25 lbs (1.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.7 x 8.8 x 1 in (27.18 x 22.35 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient, Hell in art
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021024259
  • Dewey Decimal Code 738.382

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About the author

David Saunders is associate curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He coedited The Restoration of Ancient Bronzes: Naples and Beyond (Getty, 2013) and Dangerous Perfection: Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy (Getty, 2016).
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2022. 240 pages, fully illustrated. Hardback 28 x 23cms. ISBN: 9781606067345. Catalogue of 42 South Italian funerary vases painted with depictions of the Underworld, all illustrated and discussed in detail. Expanding on research for the eponymous exhibition at the Getty Villa in 2019, this study explores attitudes toward the afterlife in Greek ritual and myth, inscriptions on leaves of gold that provided guidance for the deceased, funerary practices and religious beliefs in Apulia, and the importance accorded to Orpheus and Dionysos. With a list of concordances, bibliography and index. Text in English.
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