Classical Art

ISBN: 9780300155198
Published by : Yale University Press
The Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor was one of those buried and preserved by the erpution of Vesuvius in AD 79; many of its painted wall panels are now in the Metropolitan Museum New York. This book details recent conservation work on the fre... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004183087
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Inscribed most probably in the middle of the decade that saw the Greek response to the Persian invasion, the Hekatompedon Inscription has long been recognized for its historical and religious importance. This study looks at the inscription on i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780226570631
Published by : University of Chicago Press
In this fine volume, Richard Neer examines the development of the 'Classical' style in Greek sculpture in the fifth century BC. He focuses on the relation of image to beholder and on viewing experience, suggesting that different ways of engagin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107603608
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world from the 4th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. Whereas male portraits tend to stress their subject's distinctiveness through physiognomic individuality, portraits of women ar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521766524
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature addressed to Greeks and Romans is best understood when read in tandem with the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity. She examines second-century Christianity by looking at the world in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107644991
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature addressed to Greeks and Romans is best understood when read in tandem with the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity. She examines second-century Christianity by looking at the world in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199578658
Published by : Oxford University Press
Komast figures (literally `revellers') on black-figure vases have long been associated with the worship of Dionysos and the origins of Greek drama. In this fully illustrated study, Tyler Jo Smith takes a fresh look at the evidence for komasts, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407304809
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A detailed study of mosaics from the Roman city of Italica now just north of Santiponce in the province of Seville. Romero surveys the history of their excavation, before treating the mosaics themtically, looking at first figurative, then geome... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305684
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Exekias inscribes his signature on several of his vases, and so he is one of the relatively few archaic painters whose real name is known to us. He is arguably one of the most accomplished and innovative of all black-figure vase-painters workin... .... Learn More