Art & Architecture
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Vessel Glass [Hardback]
Gladys D. Weinberg (Author); E. Marianne Stern (Author)
£130.00ISBN: 9780876612347
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Athenian Agora
Volume: 34
The authors present 404 glass vessels excavated in the Athenian Agora. Although mostly fragmentary, examples are given of almost every type of glass known from the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, and representative finds from Byzantine ... .... Learn More -
Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II [Hardback]
John H. Oakley (Author); Francis Oakley (Editor); Olga Palagia (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9781842173503
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first ... .... Learn More -
Roman Mosaics of Britain Volume III: South-East Britain [Hardback]
David S. Neal (Author); Stephen R. Cosh (Author)
Regular Price: £200.00
Special Price: £50.00
ISBN: 9780854312894
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
The third volume in this massive project to create the first complete corpus of the Roman mosaics of Britain covers the areas of Britain that were first to come under Roman control and where some of Britain's most impressive mosaics are to be f... .... Learn More -
The Language of the Muses: The Dialogue Between Greek and Roman Sculpture [Hardback]
Miranda Marvin (Author)
Regular Price: £75.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780892368068
Published by : Getty Trust Publishing
This gloriously illustrated volume sets out to examine and disprove the popularly accepted notion that Roman sculptors were merely copyists (and not always good ones) doing nothing more than reproducing Greek masterpieces. The main part of the ... .... Learn More -
The Derveni Krater: Masterpiece of Classical Greek Metalwork [Hardback]
Beryl Barr-Sharrar (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780876619629
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Ancient Art and Architecture in Context
Volume: 1
This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered. Found in an undisturbed Macedonian tomb of the late 4th century B.C., the volute krater is a tour de ... .... Learn More -
Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art [Paperback]
Andrew Stewart (Author)
Regular Price: £18.99
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9780521618359
Published by : Cambridge University Press
What was the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these questions and guides them towards the answers. Andrew Stewart examines Greek architecture, painting, a... .... Learn More -
The Art of Ancient Greece [Paperback]
Sabine Albersmeier (Author)
Regular Price: £19.99
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780911886696
Published by : I.B. Tauris
A sumptuously produced catalogue of the major collection of Greek art and Roman copies in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The works are presented chronologically with essays surveying artisitic development in each historical period and unusu... .... Learn More -
Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context [Hardback]
Peter Schultz (Author)
Regular Price: £80.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780521866590
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Examines the styles and contexts of portrait statues produced during one of the most dynamic eras of Western art, the early Hellenistic age. Often seen as the beginning of the Western tradition in portraiture, this historical period is here su... .... Learn More -
The Herculaneum Women [Hardback]
Jens Daehner (Author); Kordelia Knoll (Author); Christiane Vorster (Author); Moritz Woelk (Author)
Regular Price: £37.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780892368822
Published by : Getty Trust Publishing
Oxbow says: In c.1711 three life-size Roman marble statues known as the Large and Small Herculaneum Women were discovered near Portici in the Bay of Naples. Sealed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79, once discovered thay were taken to Vienna a... .... Learn More -
The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities [Paperback]
Robin Francis Rhodes (Author)
Regular Price: £25.95
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780268040277
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Oxbow says: Today, the acquisition of classical antiquities has gone beyond moral issues of the rights and wrongs involved, to questions of the legality of ownership, laws governing the antiquities trade and protecting cultural heritag, the iss... .... Learn More
