Dangerous Perfection: Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy kids and its connections to the

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thought-provoking resource for art historians

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Dangerous Perfection: Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy kids and its connections to theEdited by Ursula Kstner and David Saunders In 2008, the Berlin Antikensammlung initiated a project with the J. Paul Getty Museum to conserve a group of ancient funerary vases from southern Italy. Monumental in scale and richly decorated, these magnificent vessels were discovered in hundreds of fragments in the early nineteenth century at Ceglie, near Bari. Acquired by a Bohemian diplomat, they were reconstructed in the Neapolitan workshop of Raffaele