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Hellenistic Art from Alexander the Great

by Lucilla Burn

So much has been written about Hellenistic art that it is often difficult to find new ways of looking at the art and interpreting its meaning. In this introduction to Hellenistic art Lucilia Burn presents a more balanced view of the world from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to Actium in 31 BC, and beyond. Objects from the collection of the British Museum are placed alongside other sources to reveal the public and private spheres of individuals, architecture and space, and iconography. This thematic approach combines studies of individual objects and sites, including the famous and less well known, with more general trends in art throughout the Hellenistic period and into the Roman world, including allegory in art, portrayal of the rural idyll, the erotic and the macabre, emotion and experience. 190p, 75 col and 25 b/w pls (British Museum 2004)

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