John Boardman

Greek Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We now know conclusively that Greeks in fact lavished their sculptures with realistic colour paint, and also worked with a wealth of other materials on a major scale, including wood and precious metals. This edition showcases the artistic endeavours of the ancient Greeks.

Produktdetails

• World of Art
• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Fifth edition, revised and expanded
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780500204337
• ISBN-10: 0500204330
• Artikelnr.: 44609259

Autorenporträt

Sir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface . Introduction . 1. The Beginnings and Geometric Greece . 2. Greece
and the Arts of the East and Egypt . 3. Archaic Greek Art . 4. Classical
Sculpture and Architecture . 5. Other Arts in Classical Greece . 6.
Hellenistic Art . 7. Greek Art and the Greeks . 8. The Legacy