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31: 224: 768: 717: 291:, Furtwängler excluded from his own catalogues of engraved stones in Berlin those engraved gems that were associated with magic, as their artistic value was considered by him not important. For this reason, he was convinced that these types of engraved stones should also be removed from the display of the collection in the Department of Egyptology. 260:
he refined identifications of the Greek sculptors responsible for the originals of many works known only through Roman copies; many of his attributions still stand, though the most recent scholarship in the field has moved away from assigning sculptors' names to masterpieces. His 1891 reconstructions
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Furtwängler was a prolific writer, with a prodigious knowledge and memory, and a most ingenious and confident critic; and his work not only dominated the field of archaeological criticism but also raised its standing both at home and abroad.
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Furtwängler's students formed an outstanding group among the next generation of classical art historians and archaeologists, and his published research was of even wider influence.
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in pottery, and contributed to the developing technique of identifying archaeological strata, and giving them relative dates, through the painting styles represented on pottery
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Among his numerous publications the most important were a volume on the bronzes found at Olympia, vast works on ancient gems and Greek vases, and the invaluable
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contracted at the site from which he died (October 10, 1907), in the full maturity of his career. He was buried in Athens. His grave is located at the
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in 1904, issued in fascicles. After Furtwängler's death, Friedrich Hauser assumed editorship; a third volume of Furtwängler's
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Barb, A.A. (1953). "Diva Matrix: A Faked Gnostic Intaglio in the Possession of P.P. Rubens and the Iconology of a Symbol".
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On the strength of this, Furtwängler received double appointments the following year (1880) as assistant director at the
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In 1885 he married Adelheid Wendt. The same year, his catalogue of the Greek pottery of the
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were celebrated but have subsequently occasioned dispute; they may be found in the
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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In the field, he renewed the excavations at the temple of
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and museum director. He was the father of the conductor
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In 1894, he left Berlin to succeed his early mentor,
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Beschreibung der geschnittenen Steine im Antiquarium
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Beschreibung der geschnittenen Steine im Antiquarium
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Freiburg im Breisgau
Archaeology
archaeologist
art historian
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Andreas Furtwängler
Freiburg im Breisgau
Leipzig
Munich
Heinrich Brunn
art criticism
University of Leipzig
Johannes Overbeck
German Archaeological Institute
Ernst Curtius
Olympia
Georg Loeschcke
Mycenaean
Geometric styles
sherds
Royal Museums of Berlin
privatdozent
University of Berlin
Saburov collection

Venus de Milo
Antikensammlung Berlin
Antiquarium
connoisseurship

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