Scientific analyses and detailed photographs reveal both how the pieces were cast and pieced together in antiquity and how they were restored in the eighteenth century

His books include Greek Tragedy in Action

This volume highlights the most noteworthy concepts

the sculptures were restored so as to appear whole

various environmental and climatic conditions

Greek Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa Valentine 2024 Scientific analyses and detailed photographsJanet Burnett Grossman Much of the sculpture created in ancient Greece that has survived is funerary in nature. These markers commemorating the dead were traditionally placed along roads near the entrances to cities, where they could be seen by all. Although the monuments vary greatly in style, quality, and elaboration, they reach across the millennia speaking the universal language of human grief. This illustrated catalogue presents fifty nine Greek