The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Author: Richard Neer

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-10-22

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0226570657

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In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of sculpture to provoke wonder in beholders. Wonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors. Neer traces this way of thinking about art from the poems of Homer to the philosophy of Plato. Then, through meticulous accounts of major sculpture from around the Greek world, he shows how the demand for wonder-inducing statues gave rise to some of the greatest masterpieces of Greek art. Rewriting the history of Greek sculpture in Greek terms and restoring wonder to a sometimes dusty subject, The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the art of sculpture or the history of the ancient world.


The Severe Style of Ancient Greek Art - Art History for Kids | Children's Art Books

The Severe Style of Ancient Greek Art - Art History for Kids | Children's Art Books

Author: Baby Professor

Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1541939476

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The Ancient Greeks didn't just excel in math and philosophy. They also soared when it came to art. Art history is a refreshing way of knowing the local culture, customs and traditions. It details the truths of the world and myths, too. Without art, history will be boring and handing it down from one generation to the next will prove to be a challenge.


Fourth-century Styles in Greek Sculpture

Fourth-century Styles in Greek Sculpture

Author: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway

Publisher: Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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Careful summaries of ongoing scholarly debates illustrate how the fourth century fits into the development of Greek sculpture, votive and document reliefs, funerary art, and architectural sculpture from Greece proper to the non-Greek territories of Lykia and Karia in the Anatolian peninsula, she looks at major monuments and categories of monuments, describing each work carefully, puts into perspective problems surrounding interpretation and dating of the sculpture, reviews and evaluates previous scholarship o the subject, and offers her own views.


Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture

Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture

Author: Όλγα Παλαγιά

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780521657389

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This 1996 book Identifies and evaluates the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors.


Handbook of Greek Sculpture

Handbook of Greek Sculpture

Author: Olga Palagia

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-07-22

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 1614513538

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The Handbook of Greek Sculpture aims to provide a detailed examination of current research and directions in the field. Bringing together an international cast of contributors from Greece, Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, and the United States, the volume incorporates new areas of research, such as the sculptures of Messene and Macedonia, sculpture in Roman Greece, and the contribution of Greek sculptors in Rome, as well as important aspects of Greek sculpture like techniques and patronage. The written sources (literary and epigraphical) are explored in dedicated chapters, as are function and iconography and the reception of Greek sculpture in modern Europe. Inspired by recent exhibitions on Lysippos and Praxiteles, the book also revisits the style and the personal contributions of the great masters.


A Companion to Greek Art

A Companion to Greek Art

Author: Tyler Jo Smith

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 1119266815

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A comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC. An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical world Includes voices from such diverse fields as art history, classical studies, and archaeology and offers a diversity of views to the topic Features an innovative group of chapters dealing with the reception of Greek art from the Middle Ages to the present Includes chapters on Chronology and Topography, as well as Workshops and Technology Includes four major sections: Forms, Times and Places; Contacts and Colonies; Images and Meanings; Greek Art: Ancient to Antique


Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture

Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture

Author: Anna Anguissola

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1108307922

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Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Drawing on a large body of examples, Greek and Latin literary sources, and modern theories of visual culture, this study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of non-figural supports in Roman sculpture. The book overturns previous conceptions of Roman visual values and traditions and challenges our understanding of the Roman reception of Greek art.


Prayers in Stone

Prayers in Stone

Author: Brunilde S. Ridgway

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999-08-31

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0520215567

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Classical Greek architectural sculpture has never before been fully studied as a single topic.


Eye and Art in Ancient Greece

Eye and Art in Ancient Greece

Author: Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781909400030

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Eye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their own visual culture and how Greek art may be understood by us today.