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Classical Drawing Atelier by Juliette Aristides
RRP: $34.29$25.18Ateliers 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... -
Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Christina Riggs
RRP: $15.42$11.06From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the architecture of Egyptian temples and pyramids has attracted tourists to Egypt for centuries. But what did... -
Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour by Scott Samuelson
RRP: $25.71$22.35A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome's great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the... -
Assyrian Palace Sculptures by Paul Collins 9781606066485
RRP: $68.61$43.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066485Author Paul CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J. Paul Getty MuseumWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm)... -
The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages by Penelope Reed Doob
RRP: $29.14$25.28Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without... -
Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain by D. F. Mackreth
RRP: $128.65$103.84The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain – the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. This... -
Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell
RRP: $22.28$14.68Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: who were these men and their fellow Apostles? What was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich answers to these ancient and surprisingly enigmatic questions in an unusual, erudite and fascinating book. By... -
Spolia Reincarnated: Afterlives of Objects, Materials, and Spaces in Anatolia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Era by Ivana Jevtic
$164.41At the cutting edge of spolia studies, the collected essays in this volume explore diverse forms and types of reuse in Anatolia over centuries through a cross-cultural lens. Gathered from the joining of disciplines archaeology, art history, and the... -
The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran by Matthew P. Canepa 9780520294837
RRP: $51.46$39.83This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. Bridging the... -
Landscape and Space: Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art by Jas Elsner 9780192845955
$122.80Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Science, Engineering and Technology by Michael Denis Higgins 9780197648148
RRP: $39.43$33.55Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with ancient documentation and archaeological findings. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Pyramids of... -
The Archaeology of Ancient Greece by James Whitley
$65.46The Archaeology of Ancient Greece provides a synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods (1000-300 BC). The rich and diverse material culture of ancient Greece has always provoked admiration and even... -
Chinese Garden Pleasures: An Appreciation by Alison Hardie 9781602201453
RRP: $23.93$18.71Featuring beautiful photographs and insightful commentary this Chinese gardening book is a must have for any gardening or zen enthusiast.Celebrating the pleasures of garden living enjoyed by the elite of late imperial China, this book brings together... -
The Elgin Marbles: The Case for Restitution by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $25.71$22.14The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the... -
Greek Sculpture by Nigel Spivey
RRP: $56.59$52.71Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality - provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its... -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780198856009
$70.48The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The... -
Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present by Caroline Vout 9780691177038
RRP: $65.18$54.79How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious,... -
The Gayer-Anderson Cat by Neal Spencer 9780714119731
RRP: $10.29$7.55The Gayer-Anderson Cat has been one of the most admired objects at the British Museum since its arrival in 1947. This book presents a detailed description of the cat and a discussion of its possible meaning and role in ancient times. Surprising new finds... -
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson
RRP: $32.57$24.91The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... -
Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present by Rabun Taylor 9781107601499
RRP: $60.02$49.37Spanning 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... -
Herculaneum - Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Jay Deiss 9780892361649
RRP: $37.72$29.43A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.Book InformationISBN 9780892361649Author . DeissFormat PaperbackPage... -
Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone - A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques by Janet Burnett Grossman 9780892367085
RRP: $29.14$23.12Tool marks and joins, Cycladic and Daedalic styles, and kouroi and kanephoroi are among the many terms pertaining to the study of classical stone sculpture that are succinctly described in this latest addition to the "Looking At" series. Presented in... -
An Illustrated Modern Reader of 'The Classic of Tea' by Wu Juenong 9781602200296
RRP: $41.08$30.45This commentary on the Chinese masterpiece, The Classic of Tea, offers a fascinating perspective on this ancient pastime and art.The Classic of Tea, the first known monograph on tea in the world, was written in the 8th century by Lu Yu who devoted his... -
Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past: Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism by Caroline van Eck 9780192845665
RRP: $120.07$109.33Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although... -
The Mildenhall Treasure by Richard Hobbs
RRP: $10.29$7.55In 1942, while ploughing a field near Mildenhall in Suffolk, eastern England, Gordon Butcher stumbled upon a hoard of 34 silver objects that he turned over to his boss and owner of the land, Sydney Ford. Dating back to Roman Britain, fourth century AD,... -
Roman Cult Images: The Lives and Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity by Philip Kiernan 9781108487344
RRP: $214.41$194.38In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman west. He demonstrates how and why a temple's idols, were more important to ritual than other images such as votive... -
House of the Surgeon, Pompeii: Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23) by Michael Anderson 9781785707285
RRP: $120.07$97.03The House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the... -
Pots and Plays - Interactions Between Tragedy Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C by Oliver Taplin 9780892368075
RRP: $111.49$93.91Greek painted pottery from the fourth century B.C. is one of the largest and most remarkable bodies of theatrically informed material that still survives. "Pots and Plays" is a thorough and insightful re-evaluation of over 100 Greek vases - mostly from... -
Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary - History and Heritage by Sarah Court
RRP: $44.60$37.91This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the... -
How to Read Greek Sculpture by Sean Hemingway
RRP: $34.22$29.06Featuring decorative, religious, and utilitarian objects from the Geometric period to the Hellenistic Age, this is the ideal introduction to Greek sculpture Introducing eight centuries of Greek sculpture, this latest addition to The Met's compelling and... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard 9780691225876
RRP: $34.31$26.66From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets... -
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture: Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250 by Zahra Newby
RRP: $63.45$51.03Images 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... -
Acropolis (English language edition): Visiting its Museum and its Monuments by Panos Valavanis
RRP: $15.44$12.7195 colour illustrations. The Athens Acropolis and its Museum constitute an integrated architectural and artistic unity, one of the most important in the history of global civilization. This informative and attractive guidebook is designed to be a... -
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth by Craig E. Stephenson
RRP: $73.74$64.48Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work of Freud, Lacan, and Jung, among others. It examines the... -
The Art Of Encaustic Painting by Joanne Mattera
RRP: $44.58$32.04With its roots in Ancient Greece, encaustic is a wax-based painting medium, characterized by luminous colour and a lush service. This handbook reveals how to master this beautiful yet demanding medium. It discusses ways to achieve vibrant colour and... -
Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World by Peter Schultz 9781782977391
RRP: $65.18$54.20This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine... -
The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure, and the Focus of Life by Austin Osman Spare 9781617430312
RRP: $18.85$15.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617430312Author Austin Osman SpareFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Greenbook Publications, LLCPublisher Greenbook Publications, LLCWeight(grams)... -
The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture: Interaction, Transformation, and Destruction by Rachel Kousser
RRP: $53.16$35.92The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on... -
A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases by John H. Oakley 9780299327248
RRP: $59.95$50.05Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has been written on scenes of daily life, and what has been... -
Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400 1600 by Loren Partridge
RRP: $58.32$47.08Chronicling the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and journeying from the Piazza San Marco to the villas of the Veneto, this vivid and authoritative survey of architecture, sculpture, and painting offers a rich perspective on the history and artistic...