Grotesques, Caricatures and the Clever Mice at Pistiros

Grotesques, Caricatures and the Clever Mice at Pistiros

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The article discusses a selection of five particular pieces from the 27 sealings found at Pistiros in Bulgaria in 2012, most of them with two imprints, apparently attached to a document with opheliasmuse.com a contract or a deal.Subjects represented on the seals discussed here show grotesques, caricatures and mice acting as humans.They reflect a read more specific anecdotic side of Greek art in its northern fringes expressed in grotesque, at the time of Philip II and Alexander the Great.Attached is a late 4th century BC Attic pelike from Pistiros with similar caricature of Rhea and Kronos, from the ca.

310 BC destruction.