Ancient & Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645434453Author William CollarFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ninth Gate BooksPublisher Ninth Gate BooksWeight(grams) 191g

This book explores the intersection between two key developments of the fourth through seventh centuries CE: the construction of monumental churches and the veneration of saints. While Christian sacred topography is usually interpreted in narrowly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186279Author J D BeazleyFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 871g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979190759Author Daniel R GreggFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Daniel GreggPublisher Daniel GreggWeight(grams) 821g

This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre G. Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674436763Author Cornelius C VermeuleFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1610g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674181540Author Benjamin Dean MerittFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 417g

Why did Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employ the same body forms? The complex issue of the Roman copying of Greek 'originals' has so far been studied primarily from a formal and aesthetic viewpoint. Jennifer Trimble...

The relation between the visual and the verbal spheres has been much contested in recent years, from laments about the 'logocentricism' of the academy to the heralding of the 'pictorial turn' of the multimedia age. This lavishly illustrated book...

This is the first systematic and detailed study of Pausanias' view of Roman involvement in Greece. It begins with an assessment of Pausanias' life and writings, placing them in their contemporary political, historical, literary and cultural context...

This is the first systematic and detailed study of Pausanias' view of Roman involvement in Greece. It begins with an assessment of Pausanias' life and writings, placing them in their contemporary political, historical, literary and cultural context...

Athenian art of the sixth and fifth centuries BC offers the yardstick by which we judge the artistic achievement of the rest of the Greek world, and provides the models on which the later history of Greco-Roman art and much of the art of the later...

A descriptive inventory, with numerous drawings and photographs, of more than 3,500 stone vases from the Minoan civilisation of ancient Crete. With few exceptions, Dr Warren has studied the vases in corpora. He arranges them into types, discusses the...

Nature and Illusion is the first extended treament of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine art and literature. In this richly illustrated study, Henry Maguire shows how the Byzantines embraced terrestrial creation in the decoration of their churches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952178009Author Adam TetlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden BooksWeight(grams) 102g

Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John :Who were these men and what was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich and deeply informed answers to those ancient questions. Written with warmth, humour, and a rare acumen, Apostle is a brilliant and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780091850500Author Margaret H. BulleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Senate BooksPublisher Tiger Books InternationalWeight(grams) 335g

The Roman Baths at Bath is the best-preserved ancient baths and temple complex in northern Europe. It is here, at the heart of the World Heritage Site of Bath, that the only thermal springs in the UK emerge from deep underground, bringing health and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915005304Author Andrea M PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Creative CouplePublisher Creative CoupleWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666777338Author Gregory S AthnosFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 435g

The collection of Joelle and Pierre Clement includes Australian painters whose work draws on Aboriginal culture and traditions. This catalog by Kunsthaus Zug features 80 works by 50 artists from the collection, as well as paintings by Emily Kame...

Architecture in Ancient Central Italy takes studies of individual elements and sites as a starting point to reconstruct a much larger picture of architecture in western central Italy as an industry, and to position the result in space (in the...

In this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia were used as agents of social change,...

Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual...

This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia -...

In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions. Nathaniel B. Jones argues that the depiction of panel painting within mural...

Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. This volume serves to redress...

In this book, Clemente Marconi provides a new interpretation for the use of figural decoration in Greek temples of the archaic period, through a study of the archaic metopes of Selinus. The study of figural decoration on Greek temples has traditionally...

Looking at Greek Art by Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell offers a practical guide to the methods for approaching, analysing and contextualising an unfamiliar piece of Greek art. It demonstrates how objects are dated and assigned to an artist or region; how to...

WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis 'A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666777321Author Gregory S AthnosFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 272g

Sufism has become a lush spiritual experience in the everyday lives of millions the world over. For centuries, Sufism has evolved to form an integral path through the essence of life. Especially for the people of Pakistan, Sufism winds like a cool...

'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator What are civilisations? At the heart of this big question is how people have depicted the human and divine, from prehistory to the present day. Britain's most famous classicist Mary Beard asks: how have we...

In the ancient world, terracotta sculpture was ubiquitous. Readily available and economical-unlike stone suitable for carving-clay allowed artisans to craft figures of remarkable variety and expressiveness. Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily attest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916920Author Alfred Maskell F S aFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948302159Author Petter StebbingFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Rudolf Steiner PublicationsPublisher Rudolf Steiner PublicationsWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941667309Author Charles SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Omo PressPublisher Omo PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737117339Author Lucas RussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Jcg PublishingPublisher Jcg PublishingWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484897Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916968Author H Stuart Jones M aFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 372g