The Lost Chalice

Vernon Silver

• Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9780061882968
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Ancient Art

"A riveting story of tomb robbers and antiquities smugglers, high-stakes auctioneers and the princely chiefs of the world's most prestigious museums….A terrific read, from start to finish."
—James L. Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt

An Oxford-trained archaeologist and award-winning journalist based in Rome, Vernon Silver brings us The Lost Chalice, the electrifying true story of the race to secure a priceless, 2, 500-year-old cup depicting the fall of Troy—a lost treasure crafted by Euphronios, an artist widely considered "the Leonardo Da Vinci of ancient Greece." A gripping, real life mystery, The Lost Chalice gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of great museums and antiquities collections—exposing a world of greed, backstabbing, and double-dealing.

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Addams, Dawn, 20

Alexander the Great, 113

Amenhotep III, King, 210–11

American Numismatic Society, 77

antiquities:

and archaeological procedures, 21, 31, 54, 297

and aristocracy, 20

attribution of, 9, 219

Beazley Archive database of, 6

Beazley system applied to, 9–10

blocking the smuggling of, 36–37, 177, 226–28, 233–34, 253, 268–69, 282, 296, 297–98

collectors obsessed by, 29

dating system for, 35–36

diggers of, 12–13, 21–22, 30–31

documentation of, 35–36, 165–66, 298

profits to be made from, 28, 162

publication of, 135–36, 166

and the Renaissance, 31

shadowy trade in, 6, 29–30, 108–9, 155, 219, 269, 295–96

as state property, 21–22, 36–37, 211

stylistic comparisons of, 9

unpublished, 77–78, 177

unsigned, 135–36

Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), 76–79, 101, 211

archaeology:

documentation in, 21, 31, 54, 297

and King Tut exhibit, 119, 122–23

and National Stolen Property Act, 211–12

thermoluminescence dating system in, 35–36, 71

vs. tomb robbers, 78–79, 85–86, 296–99

Archäologischer Anzeiger, 118–19

Arts Franc, 190

Asylum (film), 273

Athens:

Acropolis museum in, 300

Attic clay of, 61, 62, 64

black-figure kylix from, 161

Euphronios’s school of art in, 60–61

National Archaeological Museum, 34

red-figure plates from, 138, 139–40, 148–52, 155–56

Renaissance in, 31

Audino, Riccardo, 169, 174

Barbalinardo, Gustavo, 233

Barclay, Dolores, 157

Bartocci, Francesco, 40, 41, 42, 43, 50, 284–90, 300

Bartocci, Pina, 49, 288–89

Baudin, Alain, 173, 175, 179–80, 181–85

kylix dropped by, 183–85, 190, 290

Beazley, Sir John:

Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters by, 53, 55

Greek vases cataloged by, 15–16

at Oxford, 9–11, 35, 136

as von Bothmer’s mentor, 10–11, 30, 74

Becchina, Gianfranco, 160, 209

Berger, Danny, 236–37, 247, 276

Berlin Antikensammlung, Euphronios

krater in collection of, 8–9, 56, 66

Berlin Archaeological Society, 118, 141

Berlin Painter, 10

Berlusconi, Silvio, 52, 227, 268

Bile, Franco, 278, 295

Blaffer, Joyce, 58

Blaffer, Robert Lee, 58

Borsa, Giuseppe, 147

Bothmer, Bernard von, 59

Bothmer, Dietrich von:

and AIA, 76–79, 101, 211

as archaeologist, 9, 78, 94

author’s attempts to contact, 242–44, 267, 291

cataloging antiquities in U.S., 15–16

early years of, 8–11, 123

and Euphronios krater provenance, 65

and Euphronios krater purchase, 4, 53, 55–57, 58–59, 65–66, 68–69, 120

and Euphronios kylix, 5, 81, 83–84, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 106, 118–19, 123–26, 136, 159, 161, 195–96

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