About the Author

Assistant Professor of Art History, Boston University

Reviews

A catalogue of fifty-one examples which, while it will not revolutionize the history of ancient art, will put all its historians in his [Lapatin's] debt ... Today's students will rejoice in his forty pages of testimonia in both the original language and translation. But perhaps the most interesting of Lapatin's appendices are his inventories of statues mentioned or described in antiquity and here classified by site, subject and period ... It is not the benefits of autopsy but the virtues of candour and clear-headedness that set this book apart from other works on ivory and colour. Anthony Cutler, Times Literary Supplement Useful for the general reader as well as the specialist ... The text is supported by abundant illustrations, which alone make an important contribution ... a thoroughly researched study, which is well organized and presented ... This volume will likely become a standard handbook in ancient sculpture and classical archaeology. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Excellent ... It is hard to imagine the job of presenting all this material being better done or more competently arranged; this volume will not only last for a good many years as the fundamental work in its particular field, but its re-ignition of the specific significance of chryselephantine statuary for the wider arena of the study of Greek sculpture gives us pause for thought and is a spur to revising old assumptions. Apollo Magazine