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Greek Art - Byzantine Wall Paintings
by Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou
With their simple, accessible materials, the precise, effective flexibility of the painter's brush, and the efficient, frequently inspired artistry of their creators, Byzantine wall-paintings are a vigorous yet modest expression of the monumental painting of Byzantium, a worthy equivalent of the precious mosaics. Their easily executed, albeit demanding, technique, the immediacy and charm of their style, and the instructive potential of the ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
The Acropolis
by Manolis Andronicos
104p, 77 illus (Ekdotike Athenon 2005)
Paperback. Price GB £14.99
Delphi
by Manolis Andronicos
Delphi is part of the volume entitled "treasures of the Greek Museums" which introduces the reader to the priceless works of art housed in the museums of Greece. The texts, written by experts, furnish details of the historical and cultural context of these masterpieces. The most important achaeological sites are also presented, with exclusive aerial photographs and other lavish illustrations. 80p, 57 illus (Ekdotike Athenon 2002)
Paperback. Price GB £14.99
Olympia - The Archaeological Site and the Museums
by Manolis Andronicos
Olympia is part of the volume entitled "treasures of the Greek Museums" which introduces the reader to the priceless works of art housed in the museums of Greece. The texts, written by experts, furnish details of the historical and cultural context of these masterpieces. The most important achaeological sites are also presented, with exclusive aerial photographs and other lavish illustrations. 80p, 73 illus (Ekdotike Athenon 2005)
Paperback. Price GB £14.99
Philip of Macedon
by Manolis Andronicos
In autumn 1977 an unplundered royal tomb containing works of art of astounding richness and exquisite craftsmanship was discovered by Professor Manolis Andronicos at Vergina in Macedonia. The excavator's suggestion that the tomb's occupant was probably Philip, son of Amyntas, king of the Macedonians and Captain General of the united Greeks, created an understandable sensation, and aroused world-wide interest in this extraordinary personality: ...
Hardback. Price GB £34.99
Greek Art - Byzantine Mosaics
by Nano Chatzidakis
With the luxury of their materials, technical precision, beauty, and aesthetic grandeur, Byzantine mosaics, particularly the wall mosaics, constitute the most impressive manifestation of Byzantine monumental painting. Highly expensive and laborious works of art, they were commissioned and dedicated by emperors, dignitaries, state officials and members of the Church hierarchy, in order to enhance the dwellings of Divinity, important churches and ...
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Mystras - The Medieval City and Castle
by Manolis Chatzidakis
Chatzidakis scrutinizes the first evidence for Mystras, before the Frankish Conquest of 1249; the city's acme, under the Franks (from 1249 to 1262), and subsequently, in the days of the Kantakouzenoi and the Palaiologoi; and again when, as capital of the Despotate of the Morea (from 1348 to 1460), Mystras became "the centre and very soul of the Peloponnese", a city in constant communication, politically and culturally, with the capital of the ...
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Greek Art - Modern Greek Engraving
by Christou, Chrysanthos
The art of engraving, which flourished in Europe as early as the Renaissance, first made its appearance in Greece in the 17th century. It was organized and set on a more systematic basis in the 19th century, when it provided elucidatory and illustrative material to accompany various forms of printed matter (books, periodicals and newspapers). And it emerged as an autonomous, diversified, creative art in the present century. Engraving is a ...
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Greek Art - Ancient Gold Jewellery
by Aikaterini Despini
Jewellery appeared worldwide during the early phases of civilisation, when people, through belief in the existence of supernatural forces and magic, laid down the substrate of religion. In those times, and for many centuries after, jewellery was regarded as having the power to attract benign forces or to avert evil, functioning as a magical medium. Its association with metals was of decisive importance, not least with gold which, being ...
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Santorini: A Guide to the Island and its Archaeological Treasures
by Christos Doumas
INTRODUCTION: Geography and Geology; Historical Outline; Archaeological Research; THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES: PREHISTORIC THERA: AKROTIRI: The Houses; Pottery; Wall-Paintings; Stone Tools and Vessels; Miniature Art and Metal-Working; External Relations; Economic, Social, and Political Organisation; The Catastrophe and the Myth of Atlantis; ANCIENT THERA: MESA VOUNO: Town Plan; Architecture; The Agora; The Sanctuaries; Other Public Buildings; ...
Paperback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £7.99
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