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The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner by Harriet I. Flower 9780691175003
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.45The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to... -
Diodore of Tarsus: Commentary on Psalms 1-51 by Robert, C. Hill 9781589830943
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589830943Author Robert, C. HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)... -
The Nation and its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece by Yannis Hamilakis 9780199572908
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £75.58This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination. It also shows how, in return, national imagination has... -
Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Christina Riggs
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30From 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... -
A Companion to Greek Art Tyler Jo Smith 9781119266815
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.79A comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC. An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical worldIncludes voices from such diverse fields... -
The Lost Chalice: The Real-Life Chase for One of the World's Rarest Masterpieces--A Priceless 2,500-Year-Old Artifact Depicting the Fall of Troy by Vernon Silver 9780061558290
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061558290Author Vernon SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 304g -
Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day Valery Garrett 9780804852562
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.83Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the everyday fashions of twenty-first century China.Author Valery Garrett skillfully weaves the story of... -
Pots and Plays - Interactions Between Tragedy Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C by Oliver Taplin 9780892368075
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.50Greek 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... -
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece by Judith M. Barringer
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.30This richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of ancient art, this textbook reviews the main objects... -
Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age by John C. McEnroe
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.33Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and... -
The Mildenhall Treasure Richard Hobbs 9780714150802
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.75In 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,... -
Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories by Catherine M. Keesling 9781107162235
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £88.40In 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... -
Greek Art by Francoise Guiramand 9780714833682
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.57Nigel Spivey sets the formation of the classical style in its proper historical context. He explores the question of how Greek art was inextricably bound up with the social, religious, philosophical and political factors of the period and explains the... -
Lectures on Ancient Philosophy HARDCOVER by Manly P Hall 9781639234608
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639234608Author Manly P HallFormat HardbackPage Count 524Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 866g -
How to Read Greek Sculpture by Sean Hemingway
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.19Featuring 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... -
Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs by Kimberly Cassibry
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £88.99In Destinations in Mind, Kimberly Cassibry asks how objects depicting different sites helped Romans understand their vast empire. At a time when many cities were written about but only a few were represented in art, four distinct sets of artifacts... -
Dogs in the Athenian Agora by Colin M. Whiting
Booksplease Price: £6.03In this book, readers are shown how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Topics range from how ancient Greeks hunted with dogs... -
A History of Roman Art Steven L. Tuck (Miami University, Ohio, USA) 9781119653288
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £48.59A 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... -
Hyecho's Journey: The World of Buddhism by Donald S. Lopez Jr
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.53In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam,... -
Ancient Egyptian Jewelry: 50 Masterpieces of Art and Design by Nigel Fletcher-Jones 9789774169656
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.67Jewelry was worn by ancient Egyptians at every level of society and, like their modern descendants, they prized it for its aesthetic value, as a way to adorn and beautify the body. It was also a conspicuous signifier of wealth, status, and power. But... -
Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400 1600 by Loren Partridge
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.16Chronicling 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... -
Pompeii: A Life Revealed by Emidio De Albentiis 9788870572957
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £44.46An expert in Pompeian studies and a qualified tourist guide since 2005, Professor De Albentiis has been Professor of Style, History of Art and Costume at the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts, which in 2003 awarded him the title of Honorary... -
Rubens - Picturing Antiquity Davide Gasparotto 9781606066706
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.74The 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... -
The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy by Michael Squire 9781845119317
Booksplease Price: £25.85The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype,... -
Masterpieces of Classical Art by Dyfri Williams 9780714122540
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £8.53The British Museum has one of the finest collection of antiquities from ancient Greece and Rome outside of those countries. This beautiful book investigates 180 of the most important works, including the most famous (such as the Parthenon sculptures) and... -
Bathing in the Roman World by Fikret K. Yegul 9780521840323
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.76In Bathing in the Roman World, Fikret Yegul examines the social and cultural aspects of one of the key Roman institutions. Guiding the reader through the customs, rituals, and activities associated with public bathing, Yegul traces the origins and... -
The Colossal Statue of Ramesses II Anna Garnett 9780714151090
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.62One 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... -
On Architecture: v. 2: Bks.VI-X by Vitruvius
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.46The Renaissance man avant la lettre.Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial... -
Herculaneum - Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Jay Deiss 9780892361649
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.53A 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... -
Boughton: The House, its People and its Collections Richard Buccleuch 9780995756663
Booksplease Price: £21.02In this sumptuous portrait of the house known as 'the English Versailles', the Duke of Buccleuch sets the scene with a history of his ancestors, the Montagus of Boughton, who acquired the manor in Northamptonshire in the reign of Henry VIII. Ralph, 1st... -
The Gayer-Anderson Cat Neal Spencer 9780714119731
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.62The 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... -
Understanding Early Christian Art Robin M. Jensen (University of Notre Dame, USA) 9781032105482
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.05Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to... -
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths by Simon Connor 9781617971341
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.41A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have... -
Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400 1600 by Loren Partridge 9780520257740
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £29.92In this absorbing illustrated history, Loren Partridge takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence and sheds new light on its celebrated art and culture by examining the city's great architectural and artistic achievements in their... -
The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece: Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity by Guy Hedreen 9781107543393
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.07This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios,... -
A New History of Western Art: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Koenraad Jonckheere
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.64A 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 Experience in Classical Greece by Jerome Jordan Pollitt 9780521096621
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.00An account of the development of Greek art in the Classical period (about 480-320 BC) which places particular emphasis on the meaning and content of Greek sculpture, architecture and painting. Professor Pollitt reminds us that the visual arts in Greece,... -
The Tyranny of Greece over Germany: A Study of the Influence Exercised by Greek Art and Poetry over the Great German Writers of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by E. M. Butler 9781107697645
Booksplease Price: £37.48Originally published in 1935, this book provides a study of the powerful influence exercised by Ancient Greek culture on German writers from the eighteenth century onwards. The text takes as its starting point Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68), who... -
Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons: The Power of the Painted Gaze by Andrew Paterson 9780367697587
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.69This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of 'sacred portrait' also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial... -
Rings of the Ancient World: Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman Rings from the Slava Yevdayev Collection by Dr Jack Ogden 9783954900480
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £84.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954900480Author Dr Jack OgdenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...