Book Review of Scolpire il marmo: Importazioni, artisti itineranti, scuole artistiche nel Mediterraneo antico. Atti del convegno di studio tenuto a Pisa Scuola normale Superiore, 9–11 novembre 2009, edited by Gianfranco Adornato

Abstract

This volume presents most of the papers delivered at a conference on marble sculpture imports, itinerant artists, and artistic schools in the Mediterranean that took place at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in November 2009. One of highest priorities was to integrate marble sculpture of the Archaic and Classical periods found in Magna Graecia—here referring to both South Italy and Sicily (on the long and troubled history of the term “Magna Graecia,” see the introduction in G.