Art & Architecture

ISBN: 9781107610781
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings together a wide range of evidence that has never before been studied as a group. Sheila Dillon considers th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521182997
Published by : Cambridge University Press
For over a century, scholars have recognised an orientalising period in the history of early Greek art, in which Greek artisans fashioned works of art under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports or resident foreign artisans. In this study, Ann G... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781621390107
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: ANCIENT ART & ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEXT
Volume: 3
This monograph considers the painted frieze on the façade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591879
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 187
The individual contributors to these papers tell the story of the dedicated and detailed efforts to understand the work of previous generations on the Acropolis and then to restore the buildings as nearly as possible to their original architect... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199550449
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is the first comprehensive and fully illustrated study of silver vessels from ancient Macedonia from the 4th to the 2nd centuries BC. These precious vessels formed part of dining sets owned by the royal family and the elite and have been d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521861717
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book explores divine manifestations and their representations both in art and in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780292723122
Published by : University of Texas Press
Chersonesan Studies 1 presents the painted grave stelai of the Early Hellenistic necropolis of Chersonesos Taurike, a Greek city on the northern shore of the Black Sea. This unique collection of over one hundred objects is of major interest to ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004186040
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This volume aims at a comprehensive contextual analysis of early Attic black-figure pottery production. After an outline of early research, Alexandridou studies the shapes and their functions, the painters, the iconography, the distribution and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895007156
Published by : Reichert Verlag
In Hellenistic and Roman times ( ca. 200BC to AD150), the city of Cnidos was one of the chief manufacturing centres for fine pottery in the East Mediterranean. This study based on some 2000 pieces provides a full chronological and typological a... .... Learn More