Ancient & Classical

The third part of the four volume set which aims to make available the most important studies of Cornelius Vermeule, the formercurator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. This volume contains studies published between 1974 and 1984 ...

The last part of the four-volume series which aims to make available the most important studies of Cornelius Vermuele the former curator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. This volume spans the years between 1985 and 1995 and includes...

The second part of a four-volume work which aims to make available the most important of Cornelius Vermeule's journal contributions over the last fifty years. This volume covers the years between 1965 and 1973 and includes papers on broad themes and...

Over the last fifty years, Professor Cornelius Vermeule, formerly curator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, has consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost American authorities on Graeco-Roman art. His published work has covered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789490693640Author Vasso PennaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909400030Author Christopher WitcombeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771243932Author Stine SchierupFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 1545g

This collection of papers is dedicated to Herman Brijder upon his retirement from the University of Amsterdam. He is a renowned scholar in the field of Greek ancient pottery and his research is mainly concentrated on the so-called Siana cups, made in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788891306555Author Antonio CorsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di BretschneiderWeight(grams) 1580g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788882654924Author Richard Daniel De PumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di BretschneiderWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782600007603Author Pascale DerronFormat HardbackPage Count 467Imprint Fondation HardtPublisher Fondation HardtWeight(grams) 712g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948488051Author Dimitris PlantzosFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Lockwood PressPublisher Lockwood PressWeight(grams) 1778gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500052099Author Richard T NeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 1134g

This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based...

Anteros: 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...

Keys to Rome is a unique international exhibition on Roman culture that will launch simultaneously in Rome, Sarajevo, Amsterdam and Alexandria in September 2014 .Rome: Tabernae of the Trajan Markets and Imperial Fora Museum, 24 -28 September 2014; ...

Mahmoud Obaidi's work encompasses sculpture, conceptual objects, film and painting; a series of politically-charged fragments which are brought together within this publication. Born in Iraq in 1966, Mahmoud Obaidi's artistic career is marked by...

In 2008, the Berlin Antikensammlung initiated a project with the J. Paul Getty Museum to conserve a group of ancient funerary vases from southern Italy. Monumental in scale and richly decorated, these magnificent vessels were discovered in hundreds of...

This is a revealing consideration of ancient bronzes from their halcyon days in antiquity to their allure today. Ancient bronze statuary provides a sense of immediacy, a window directly back to the classical world. The wistful expression of a young Roman...

Offering a unique blend of thematic and chronological investigation, this highly illustrated, engaging text explores the rich historical, cultural, and social contexts of 3,000 years of Greek art, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period. *...

This volume responds to calls in visual and material cultural studies to move beyond the visual and to explore the multi-sensory impact of the image, across a wide range of cultural and historical contexts. What does it mean to practise art history after...

In June 2006, the J. Paul Getty Museum hosted an international symposium to coincide with the exhibition The Colours of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases. The themes of the exhibition - vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline,...

Among the collections of the Gennadius Library in Athens are over 300 Greek manuscripts, ranging in date from the 13th to the 19th century. This book presents a collection of studies of various aspects of the collection written by leading paleographers,...

Text in Modern Greek Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian...

The tombs and mortuary temples of Thebes have proved an enduring topic of interest thanks to a quickly expanding corpus of field materials and a series of conferences devoted to the subject. This volume, the fourth in a series of occasional proceedings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878467280Author Christine KondoleonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Museum of Fine Arts,BostonPublisher Museum of Fine Arts,Boston

This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics. By revisiting Buddhist connections...

Medieval metalwork is one of the artistic highlights of the Iranian world, as well as of the Departement des Arts de l'Islam at the Louvre in Paris, which holds more than one hundred and fifty objects from this period. A new approach to the study of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803274737Author Wannaporn RienjangFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 789g

The Roman official and intellectual Pliny the Elder’s Natural History constitutes our primary source on the figural arts in Classical antiquity. Since the Middle Ages, Pliny’s encyclopaedia has enraptured the imaginations of its readers with anecdotes...

This volume of ten essays by classicists, art historians and archaeologists seeks to engage with the intellectual challenge that is making sense of Greek art. Each essay and the collection as a whole strives to ask what is at stake historically in the...

Founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great, Alexandria's unique urban, political and religious organization evolved alongside the numerous scientific innovations and philosophical expressions that shaped the city into one of the ancient world's...

This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett's visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word. The first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937040574Author Dimitris PlantzosFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Lockwood PressPublisher Lockwood Press

This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across Empire, religion and science, from antiquity to the eighteenth century.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982554401Author Anna WodzinskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ancient Egypt Research AssociatesPublisher Ancient Egypt Research Associates

For eight centuries the presence and the influence of Francis’s life and deeds have made themselves felt in the history of Christianity and in that of the rest of humanity too. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Friar Francis: Traces,Words,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500265656Author Guy PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic,...

The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems, and archaeology of the Egyptian people. The journal welcomes article submissions on all periods and...