A coleção de vasos gregos do Instituto Gómez-Moreno: Fundação Rodríguez-Acosta, Granada

Abstract

In this monographic volume of the CLASSICA INSTRUMENTA series we present some Greek vases gathered by the archaeologist and historian Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (1870-1970) from Granada, Spain. These vases are now part of the RodríguezAcosta Foundation (Granada) that houses part of the vast art collection gathered by that intellectual. This is a collection that includes twenty-three Greek vases, five of which are of exceptional quality and from the collection of the pontifical Marquis of Cubas, D. Francisco de Cubas y González-Montes (1826-1899). After a brief introduction on the beauty and perennity of Greek vases inspired by the Gómez-Moreno collection, we present the background of this unique character of the 20th century and we reconstitute his assemblage in the current collections of the Instituto Goméz-Moreno, based in the Rodíguez-Acosta Foundation, in Granada. Next, follows the catalogue, where we wish to make the studied specimen known through a brief description of the decorative motives and, when possible, an attribution. In this collection there is a very interesting kalpis, which we can set in the context of the reproduction and creation of fakes of the 19th century.