The Temple of Athena at Assos
The Temple of Athena at Assos

Author: Bonna D. Wescoat

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0198143826

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A fully illustrated study of the Doric Temple of Athena at Assos, in modern Turkey. Bonna Daix Wescoat presents a complete inventory of the architecture and ornament, proposes a new reconstruction of the building, and situates the Temple within the formative development of monumental architecture in Archaic Greece.

KOINE
KOINE

Author: Derek Counts

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1782973664

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloways own unique perspective on ancient Mediterranean studies. Through broadly conceived themes, the four individual sections of this volume (I. A View of Classical Art: Iconography in Context; II. Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Cultural Entanglements Across the Connecting Sea; III. Coins as Culture: Art and Coinage from Sicily; and IV. Discovery and Discourse, Archaeology and Interpretation) are an attempt to capture the many and varied trajectories of thought that have marked his career and serve as testimony to the significance of his research. The twenty-four papers (plus four introductory essays to the individual sections, biographical sketch and main introduction) contain recent research on subjects ranging from the Kleophrades Painter to the Black Sea, Sicilian Coinage and archaeology in modern Rome.

Arts of the Ancient Greeks
Arts of the Ancient Greeks

Author: Richard Brilliant

Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13:

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The heroic age of the Mycenaeans -- Greek beginnings and the remembrance of the Heroic Age -- Archaic Greek art -- Archaic Greek architecture -- Greek art 500-450 B.C. -- Greek classic art -- Greek art in its second classic phase : late fifth century to Alexander the Great -- Greek religious sanctuaries, urban architecture, and city planning -- Hellenistic art from Alexander to Actium.

The Frame in Classical Art
The Frame in Classical Art

Author: Verity Platt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 1316943275

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The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase and fresco painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing - one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within.

Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece
Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece

Author: Jeffrey M. Hurwit

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1107105714

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This book offers insight into Greek conceptions of art, the artist, and artistic originality by examining artists' signatures in ancient Greece.

Greek Sculpture
Greek Sculpture

Author: John Boardman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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This handbook chronicles the development of Classical Greek sculpture and includes not only illustrations of the masterpieces of architectural sculptural from the temple of Zeus at Olympia and the Parthenon, but also many original works of bronze sculpture from that period, some of which have only recently been discovered.