J. J. Pollitt

The Art of Ancient Greece

Sources and Documents

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, a companion volume to Professor Pollitt's The Art Of Rome: Sources And Documents, presents a comprehensive collection in translation of ancient literary evidence relating to Greek sculpture, paintings, architecture, and the decorative arts. Its purpose is to make this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521273664
• ISBN-10: 0521273668
• Artikelnr.: 22349294

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Ancient memories and primitive beginnings
2. Sculpture: early developments and the Archaic period (c. 650-510 BC)
3. Sculpture: the Late Archaic phase (c. 510-480 BC)
4. Sculpture: the Early Classical period (c. 480-450 BC)
5. Sculpture: the High Classical period (c. 450-400 BC)
6. Sculpture: the fourth century BC
7. Sculpture: the Hellenistic period
8. Painting: earliest developments and the fifth century BC
9. Painting: the fourth century BC
10. Painting and mosaics: the Hellenistic period
11. Architecture
12. The decorative arts
13. Art history, aesthetics, and comparative criticism
Bibliography
Ancient authors whose works are excerpted in this book
Index of artists
Geographical index
General subject index.