Mario Iozzo's Books

Discover the rich history and culture of some of the world¿s most influential historical places with these highly illustrated books, packed with informative and enlightening descriptions and information

This magnificent book presents 82 masterpieces of Greek vase painting and sculpture in terrocotta, stone, and bronze from the eight great museum collections of the South of Italy and Sicily. 170 colour illustrations

The volume presents 304 Athenian black-figure cups and fragments, predominantly Little-Master cups, once part of one of the largest private collections in 19th century, compiled by Giovanni Pietro Campana.For the first time, the entire group was systematically studied, resulting in new attributions, the discovery of unique scenes, as well as new joins, both within the Florence cluster of fragments as well as outside: illustrated in photo-reconstructions are the 49 connections and joins (so-called disiecta membra) that were found with fragments in other European collections, thus illustrating the unfortunate effects of the eventual dispersion of the Campana collection. The publication of this group of cups and fragments aims to further enhance our knowledge about the products of Athenian craftsmen and their Etruscan customers in the sixth century B.C.

The most famous Greek vase and certainly one of the most well-known and widely studied "minor" works of classical antiquity, the François Vase is presented here to the public in a precise but clear and straght-forward text intended for both students and scholars, but also for the casual, non-specialist admirer.Discovered in two different excavation campaigns, in 1844 and 1845, in the Etruscan city of Camars or Clevsie-, present-day Chiusi (Siena), by Alessandro François, War Commissioner of the Granduke Leopold II of Habsburg-Lorraine, the krater (a symposium vase for mixing water and wine) is one of the undisputed masterpieces of ancient Greek pottery. Thanks to its 270 figures and 131 inscriptions, that include the signatures of the potter Ergotimos and the painter Kleitias who produced it in Athens around 565 BC, the large krater with volute handles also constitutes a sort of summa of Greek religious thought, a mythology manual of the ancient Greeks, and, in particular, of the Athenians in the final years of Solon's leadership, so much so as to sometimes be referred to as the Bible of archeology, the Encyclopedia or Anthology of Greek mythology, and which we can also easily consider Rex Vasorum, King of Vases!Translation by Andrew J. Clark, photos by Fernando Guerrini.

The first monograph on the work of the great, poetic, Italian photographer.

Book's by Mario Iozzo

Art and History of Crete

Art and History of Crete

Magna Graecia

Magna Graecia

Athenian Black-Figure Cups from the Campana Collection in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence

Athenian Black-Figure Cups from the Campana Collection in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence

Magna Graecia

Magna Graecia

Art and History of Crete

Art and History of Crete

The François Vase

The François Vase

Mario Giacomelli

Mario Giacomelli

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