Classical Art
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Excalibur: Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur MacGregor [Paperback]
Hildegard Wiegel (Author); Michael Vickers (Author)
£41.00ISBN: 9781407311302
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR International Series
A collection of 16 papers to honour Arthur MacGregor and his work. Contents: David Berry: Vita Arthuri; The published writings of Arthur MacGregor; Lauren Gilmour: An Anglo-Saxon gold finger-ring from Abingdon, Oxfordshire; Assimi... .... Learn More -
The Meroë Head of Augustus [Paperback]
Thorsten Opper (Author)
£5.00ISBN: 9780714150918
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: Objects In Focus
Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once forming part of a statue of Rome's revered first true ... .... Learn More -
Interpreting the images on Greek vases: an introduction [Paperback]
Klaus Junker (Author)
£17.99ISBN: 9780521720076
Published by : Cambridge University Press
From the age of Homer until late antiquity the culture of ancient Greece and Rome was permeated by images of Greek myths. Gods and heroes were represented as statues, on vase and wall paintings, on temples, on sarcophagi as well as in other med... .... Learn More -
Art and Archaeology of the Greek World [Hardback]
Richard Neer (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780500051665
Published by : Thames and Hudson
This beautifully produced book is a real tour de force, providing a comprehensive overview to the art of the Greek world in its entirety from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era. Richard Neer takes an archaeological as well as art-historical ... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Greek Art [Hardback]
Dimitris Plantzos (Author);Tyler Jo Smith (Author)
£235.00ISBN: 9781405186049
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This well illustrated two-volume set offers a comprehensive, authoritative account of the development of Greek art through the 1st millennium BC. While there is no shortage of introductory handbooks on Greek art the current publication takes a ... .... Learn More -
Ceremonial Sculptures of the Roman Gods [Hardback]
Brian Madigan (Author)
£110.00ISBN: 9789004227231
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
The well-known formats of Roman sculpture are the ones best preserved, but inevitably limited to those designed to be permanent and immobile. A significant component of the Roman visual world missing from this record are those ima... .... Learn More -
Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary Monuments [Hardback]
Jason Mander (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9781107001022
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Drawing on hundreds of tombstones from Rome, Italy and the Western provinces, this study assesses how parents visualised childhood. By considering the most popular funerary themes and iconographic models, it emphasises both the em... .... Learn More -
Greek Vase Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour [Paperback]
Alexandre Mitchell (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9781107658097
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this enjoyable study Alexandre Mitchell uses sixth to fourth century vase painting to explore visual humour in Ancient Greece. He examines humourous scenes thematically looking at men, women and the everyday, at animals in humourous situatio... .... Learn More -
Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles [Paperback]
Sheila Dillon (Author)
£32.99ISBN: 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 -
Dekorations- und Wohnkontext: Beseitigung, Restaurierung, Verschmelzung und Konservierung von Wandbemalungen in den kampanischen Antikenstätten [Paperback]
Wolfgang Ehrhardt (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9783895008979
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: PALILIA
Volume: 26
In 1873 August Mau published his ground-breaking discovery that the wall paintings in the houses of Pompeii do not date back to the towns last twenty or thirty years, before it was buried by the Vesuvian ashes in 79 A.D., but to a period of more t... .... Learn More