Pierre Julien
Pierre Julien

Author: Michael Worley

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-09-29

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9781469792538

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Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie-Antoinette is a scholarly study of the artist (1731?1804) who rose from humble beginnings, the son of an illiterate carpenter, to become professor at the Paris Académie and director of the sculptural decoration at Marie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet (1785?87), a surprise gift from Louis XVI. A moderate during the Revolution, Julien became one of the original members of the Institut National (1795). He executed life-size marble statues, part of the Great Men series, small works in terra cotta, and mythological figures such as Ganymede, Narcissus, and Cupid. His masterpieces are Amalthea, or Girl with Goat, the centerpiece at Rambouillet, and two statues in the Louvre: the Dying Gladiator, his reception-piece to the Académie, and Jean de La Fontaine, a statue of the author of Fables. The first major study of Pierre Julien in a hundred years, Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie-Antoinette celebrates the 200th anniversary of the sculptor's death and coincides with the exhibition in Le Puy, France (Spring 2004). This volume is indispensable to art historians and anyone interested in the colorful period in French history between the age of Louis XV and the rise of Napoleon.

A Preliminary Catalogue of Sarapis Monuments
A Preliminary Catalogue of Sarapis Monuments

Author: G. J. F. Kater-Sibbes

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9004295011

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Preliminary material -- EGYPT -- ISLES -- ASIA MINOR -- GREECE -- ITALY -- ROME -- NORTH AFRICA -- SPAIN -- FRANCE -- ENGLAND -- GERMANY -- DANUBE COUNTRIES -- MUSEUMS -- ADDENDA -- TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX -- MUSEUM INDEX -- GENERAL INDEX -- LIST OF PLATES -- PLATES I-XXXIII AND MAP.

Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology
Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology

Author: Nancy Thomson de Grummond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-11

Total Pages: 1357

ISBN-13: 1134268548

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With 1,125 entries and 170 contributors, this is the first encyclopedia on the history of classical archaeology. It focuses on Greek and Roman material, but also covers the prehistoric and semi-historical cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean, the Etruscans, and manifestations of Greek and Roman culture in Europe and Asia Minor. The Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology includes entries on individuals whose activities influenced the knowledge of sites and monuments in their own time; articles on famous monuments and sites as seen, changed, and interpreted through time; and entries on major works of art excavated from the Renaissance to the present day as well as works known in the Middle Ages. As the definitive source on a comparatively new discipline - the history of archaeology - these finely illustrated volumes will be useful to students and scholars in archaeology, the classics, history, topography, and art and architectural history.

Roman Art
Roman Art

Author: Donald Emrys Strong

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780300052930

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First published in 1976, this standard work on the subject traces the development of Roman art from its beginings to the end of the fourth century AD, embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman empire, demonstrating how all the arts of a given period combine to mirror its social, cultural, and idealogical character. This new edition includes an emended text with full notes and references, and an updated bibliography.

Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Greek Athletics in the Roman World

Author: Zahra Newby

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-10-07

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0191515574

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The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual and epigraphic sources. It shows that the traditional picture of Roman hostility has been much exaggerated. Instead Greek athletics came to exercise a profound influence upon Roman spectacle and bathing culture. In the Greek east of the empire too, athletics continued to thrive, providing Greek cities with a crucial means of asserting their cultural identity while also accommodating Roman imperial power.