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The Alternative Augustan Age by Josiah Osgood 9780197673652
RRP: £22.99£20.80The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments alike are attributed to him. This book deliberately and... -
The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray 9781904263609
RRP: £5.99£4.11Ever since humans first began to count, people have clocked days, moons and years, tried to make sense of them in terms of each other, and formed calendars to order their lives. In an amazing leap, the ancient Maya managed to synchronize all the visible... -
Don McCullin: Journeys across Roman Asia Minor by Don McCullin 9780995756670
RRP: £95.00£77.27'Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures' - Don McCullin Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor is driven by an eye... -
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress: As seen on TV by David Olusoga
RRP: £14.99£11.35Oscar Wilde said, 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Cult of Progress, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations. We discover what happened to art in the great Age of... -
A History of Roman Art by SL Tuck
RRP: £53.95£47.84A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART The new edition of the leading textbook on Roman art, updated with new images and expanded geographic and cultural scope A History of Roman Art is an expansive survey of the painting, mosaic, sculpture, decorative arts, and... -
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: £15.99£11.61Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand experiment.Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they... -
The Greek Body by Ian Jenkins 9780714122687
RRP: £19.99£14.35The ancient Greeks perceived the human body as an object of sensory delight and its depiction as the expression of an intelligent mind. This sumptuous photographic book explores ancient Greek sculptures of the body from every angle. With an introduction... -
Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Robin Osborne 9780192842022
RRP: £21.99£15.61This fascinating new account of what happened in Greece from c.800 to 323 bc shows how sculptors and painters responded to the challenges they faced in the extremely formidable and ambitious world of the Greek city-state. The numerous symbols and images... -
Art History: The Basics by Diana Newall
RRP: £18.99£16.87Now in its second edition, this volume is an accessible introduction to the history of art. Using an international range of examples, it provides the reader with a toolkit of concepts, ideas and methods relevant to understanding art history. This new... -
Art History For Dummies by Jesse Bryant Wilder
RRP: £24.99£17.38Ready to discover the fascinating world of art history? Let's (Van) Gogh! Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimulating and beautiful work of history's greatest... -
How to Read Greek Vases by Joan R. Mertens
£21.29This handsomely illustrated volume is the second in a series of publications aimed at giving a broad audience deeper insight into the extensive collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum is famed for its Greek vases. Joan R. Mertens,... -
Aegean Art and Architecture by Donald Preziosi
RRP: £21.99£16.01The amazing discovery of the 'first European civilization' in Crete, Greece and the Aegean islands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was beyond what anyone had imagined. Beginning with the Neolithic period, before 3000 BCE, and... -
The Meroe Head of Augustus by Thorsten Opper
£8.55Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once forming part of a statue of Rome's revered first true emperor... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld. 40th Ed. by Sandro Vannini
RRP: £25.00£16.47Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed... -
Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
RRP: £30.00£22.55How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, the laborers, and the families that made up the vast majority of this much mythologized civilization? With a... -
Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality by Andrew Shapland
RRP: £25.00£17.38Crete was famous in Greek myth as the location of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was confined in a palace at somewhere called 'Knossos'. From the Middle Ages travellers searched unsuccessfully for the Labyrinth. A handful of clues that survived,... -
The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima 9781616892180
RRP: £18.99£13.98Trees are in nature but also in our minds. Their shape have influenced how we communicate via diagrams, link ideas together and illustrate deeper human thoughts in art throughout history. Trees have been a recurrent metaphor for mapping information in... -
The Colossal Statue of Ramesses II by Anna Garnett
RRP: £6.00£4.40One of the largest pieces of Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum, the upper part of the colossal statue of Ramesses II, also known as the 'Younger Memnon', was perhaps the first piece of Egyptian sculpture to be recognized as a work of art by... -
Greek Homosexuality: with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson by Sir Kenneth J. Dover
RRP: £34.99£30.94Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient... -
Greek art in view: Essays in honour of Brian Sparkes by Stephanie Moser 9781842171370
RRP: £45.00£37.15This book celebrates the career of Brian Sparkes, whose work in Classical archaeology has covered many diverse areas such as art, pottery, and theatre. Such interdisciplinary work is at the core of this book, which seeks to explore the relationship... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
RRP: £34.99£28.78This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the... -
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus by Paul Zanker
RRP: £29.95£24.53Art and architecture are mirrors of a society. They reflect the state of its values, especially in times of crisis or transition. Upon this premise Paul Zanker builds an interpretation of Augustan art as a visual language that both expressed and... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld by Sandro Vannini 9783836571463
RRP: £50.00£38.12Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed... -
The Museum by the Park: 14 Queen Anne's Gate by Max Bryant 9781911300328
RRP: £25.00£16.24The depth of history at Queen Anne's Gate - a handsome Baroque street overlooking St James's Park - is unusual even in London, and few houses resonate with more memories than the extraordinary number 14. The story of the house over the centuries features... -
Roman Roads: New Evidence - New Perspectives by Anne Kolb 9783110763348
RRP: £26.50£22.11This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical and archaeological perspective. The focus is on the diverse local histories and the varying degrees of significance of individual... -
Rubens - Picturing Antiquity by Davide Gasparotto
RRP: £35.00£30.57The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist... -
Classical Drawing Atelier by Juliette Aristides 9780823006571
RRP: £25.00£15.71Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time - and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years... -
Byzantine Mosaics in Norman Sicily by ,Adele Cilento 9788870573022
RRP: £27.00£18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788870573022Author A. CilentoFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Magnus EdizioniPublisher Magnus Edizioni -
The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE by Alexa Piqueux 9780192845542
RRP: £98.00£89.71Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study... -
A New History of Western Art: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Koenraad Jonckheere
RRP: £55.00£45.69A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana... -
Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century by Naman P. Ahuja 9781910807170
RRP: £40.00£28.55The Ashmolean Museum is fortunate in having the most comprehensive British collection of the art of the Indian subcontinent outside London. Especially strong in sculpture, this rich representation of Indian art from prehistory to the twentieth century... -
Villa Albani Torlonia: The Cradle of Neoclassicism by Massimo Listri
RRP: £125.00£90.32Villa Albani Torlonia, with its collections, the Italian garden, and the hemicycle of the Kaffeehaus, is a sublime testimony of that particular antiquarian taste which came to the fore in the mid-eighteenth century, that for which Rome became a favourite... -
Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome by Caroline Vout
RRP: £25.00£17.38The Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Drinking cups, oil-lamps and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction and sexual intercourse which make the modern viewer blush; models of penises were worn around the neck or hung from doorways. In... -
Gold of the Great Steppe: People, Power and Production by Rebecca Roberts 9781911300915
RRP: £27.50£18.32This catalogue accompanies an exhibition which presents artefacts from burial mounds of the Saka people of East Kazakhstan, who, over 2,500 years ago, lived lives rich in complexity.The Saka people occupied a landscape of seemingly endless steppe to the... -
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani by E a Wallis Budge 9781945186653
RRP: £12.99£10.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945186653Author E a Wallis BudgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint ClydesdalePublisher ClydesdaleWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm -
Greek Art by John Boardman
RRP: £12.95£8.98John Boardman has updated his classic account of one of the most popular historic artistic traditions among Western audiences. In the twenty years since the last edition was released, valuable evidence has come to light which has dramatically enhanced ... -
The Art of the Roman Empire: AD 100-450 by Jas Elsner 9780198768630
RRP: £21.99£16.01The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the... -
Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There by Tiffany Jenkins
RRP: £15.99£11.61The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many... -
Roman Art by Paul Zanker
RRP: £26.00£22.10Presented in very clear and accessible language, "Roman Art" offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. Traditional studies of Roman art have sought to identify an indigenous style distinct from Greek... -
Classical Drawing Atelier by Juliette Aristides
RRP: £19.99£14.68Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time - and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with...