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  • Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

    by Alexandre G. Mitchell ...
    This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre G. Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history, archaeology and classics with the anthropology of humour, and thereby establishing new ways of looking at art and visual humour in particular. ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

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  • The Last Trojan Hero

    A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

    by Philip Hardie ...
    “I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Text-Book of the History of Painting

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Evolution of Painting: A Journey Through Artistic Movements and Techniques

    by John Charles Van Dyke, Brianna Pierce ...
    In 'A Text-Book of the History of Painting,' John Charles Van Dyke presents a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of painting from antiquity to the modern age. With a keen scholarly eye, Van Dyke deftly intertwines aesthetic analysis with historical context, offering insights into the socio-political influences that shaped artistic expressions across various cultures. His literary style is ... Read more

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  • Art of the Devil

    Diabolic imagery, myth, and temptation in art

    by Arturo Graf, ...
    “The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration, depending on the society, representations of the underworld served to instruct believers and lead them ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Frame in Classical Art

    A Cultural History

    Edited by Verity Platt, Michael Squire ...
    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 ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • Rome

    An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

    by Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof ...
    Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture

    Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC–AD 250

    by Zahra Newby ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of Greek myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public, domestic and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)

    A History of Colour, Form and Iconography

    by Robert Byron, David Talbot Rice ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast controversy, and shows how it was only by this movement that Hellenistic naturalism was ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Art of Death. Myths and Rites

    Symbols of mortality and the art of remembrance

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Since the first funerary statues were placed in the first sepulchres, the ideas of death and the afterlife have always held a prominent place at the heart of the art world. An unlimited source of inspiration where artists can search for the expression of the infinite, death remains the object of numerous rich illustrations, as various as they are mysterious. The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, ... Read more

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  • Early Greek Portraiture

    Monuments and Histories

    by Catherine M. Keesling ...
    In this book, Catherine M. Keesling lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece. Surveying the subjects, motives and display contexts of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture, she demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in Greek culture is complex and without a single, unifying history. ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art

    by Chloë N. Duckworth, Anne E. Sassin ...
    The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour’s iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging scholars including art historians, archaeologists, and conservators, who address the variety of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98

    by Nathan T. Elkins ...
    At age 65, Nerva assumed the role of emperor of Rome; just sixteen months later, his reign ended with his death. Nerva's short reign robbed his regime of the opportunity for the emperor's imperial image to be defined in building or monumental art, leaving seemingly little for the art historian or archaeologist to consider. In view of this paucity, studies of Nerva primarily focus on the historical ... Read more

    $91.79 USD