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Effigies: Ancient Portraiture as Figuration of the Particular by Dietrich Boschung
RRP: €94.01€93.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783770566525Author Dietrich BoschungFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint Brill U FinkPublisher Brill U FinkWeight(grams) 653g -
Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: A Collection of Essays Written by the Participants of the John Marshall Archive Project by Guido Petruccioli
RRP: €70.21€56.94At the beginning of the 20th century, changes in taste and expectations of the public led private museums in Europe and North America to embark on large-scale acquisition of archaeological objects from the Mediterranean and the Near East. John Marshall... -
Who Were the Greeks? by John Linton Myres
RRP: €65.45€50.62This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant by Marian H. Feldman
RRP: €71.40€68.48Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and... -
Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age by Jonathan Bardill
RRP: €142.80€118.21Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age offers a radical reassessment of Constantine as an emperor, a pagan and a Christian. The book examines in detail a wide variety of evidence, including literature, secular and religious architectural... -
Studies in Aegean Art and Culture: A New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium in Memory of Ellen N. Davis by Robert B. Koehl
RRP: €38.68€36.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931534864Author Robert B. KoehlFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Institute for Aegean PrehistoryPublisher Institute for Aegean Prehistory -
The Pyramid Complex of Amenemhat I at Lisht - The Reliefs by Peter Janosi
RRP: €121.38€115.49This informative publication is a continuation of the series documenting The Metropolitan Museum of Art's excavations at the Middle Kingdom Egyptian site at Lisht. This volume covers the relief decoration from three different locations or structures... -
The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Heather Hunter-Crawley
RRP: €47.59€41.72This 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... -
James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur: Proceedings of the Second James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 6-8 June 2019 by Jeffrey Henderson
RRP: €30.88€28.32James Loeb (1867-1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in... -
The Cult of Castor and Pollux in Ancient Rome: Myth, Ritual, and Society by Amber Gartrell
RRP: €95.19€89.39The Dioscuri first appeared at the Battle of Lake Regillus in 496 BC to save the new Republic. Receiving a temple in the Forum in gratitude, the gods continued to play an important role in Roman life for centuries and took on new responsibilities as the... -
Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece by Kristen Seaman
RRP: €36.88€23.79Greek artists and architects were important social agents who played significant roles in the social, cultural, and economic life of the ancient Greek world. In Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece, art historians, archaeologists, and... -
Open-Air Rock-Art Conservation and Management: State of the Art and Future Perspectives by Timothy Darvill
RRP: €47.59€41.72While much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated in the... -
Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave, Fascicle 14, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece by Anna Stroulia
RRP: €53.55€46.26Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. Flexible Stones provides a detailed... -
Great Moments in Greek Archaeology (English language edition) by Panos Valavanis
RRP: €107.10€89.36This beautifully illustrated book offers an overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece. The contributors include those who have excavated at the sites in question and scholars who have spent a lifetime studying the... -
Kingly Splendor: Court Art and Materiality in Han China by Allison R. Miller
RRP: €65.45€52.56The Western Han dynasty (202 BCE-9 CE) was a foundational period for the artistic culture of ancient China, a fact particularly visible in the era's funerary art. Iconic forms of Chinese art such as dazzling suits of jade; cavernous, rock-cut mountain... -
The Ethiopian Legend of Solomon and Sheba by Sarah Norodom
RRP: €23.80€22.38The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women of antiquity, rivaled only by Cleopatra and Helen of Troy for wealth, power and beauty. She is best known for her legendary meeting with King Solomon, an encounter that has resonated through time,... -
Images for Classicists by Kathleen M. Coleman
RRP: €20.17€18.89How did the Greeks translate tales into images? Why do artistic depictions of ancient myths sometimes "contradict" the textual versions that we think of as canonical? What caused the Romans to be anxious about decorated ceilings? Can numismatic... -
Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage: Form, Meaning, and Ideology in Monumental Fountain Complexes by Brenda Longfellow
RRP: €107.10€81.67In this book, Brenda Longfellow examines one of the features of Roman Imperial cities, the monumental civic fountain. Built in cities throughout the Roman Empire during the first through third centuries AD, these fountains were imposing in size,... -
Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory: An Encyclopaedic Workshop by Anna Anguissola
RRP: €59.49€51.77The 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... -
Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art by John North Hopkins
RRP: €47.60€40.45A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context This innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objects-a Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief... -
Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt by Marie Vandenbeusch
RRP: €47.60€41.88A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt introduces readers to three thousand years of Egypt's ancient history by unveiling its famous... -
Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder: Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean by Nassos Papalexandrou
RRP: €58.31€50.22The eighth and seventh centuries BCE were a time of flourishing exchange between the Mediterranean and the Near East. One of the period's key imports to the Hellenic and Italic worlds was the image of the griffin, a mythical monster that usually... -
Ancient Cypriot Art in the National Archaeology Museum of Athens (English language edition) by Vassos Karageorghis
RRP: €35.11€28.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789607037411Author Vassos KarageorghisFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Kapon EditionsPublisher Kapon Editions -
Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity: The Petrified Gaze by Johannes Siapkas
RRP: €65.44€56.79Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they... -
Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece by Tyler Jo Smith
RRP: €96.39€83.55Art and religion are both well-attested and much-studied aspects of ancient Greek life, yet their relationship is not perfectly understood. Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece presents an important rethinking of these two categories. The... -
Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala by Megan E O'Neil
RRP: €55.87€46.05Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries, when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family... -
Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100-700 BC by Susan Langdon
RRP: €127.33€115.16This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100-700 BCE. Coming between the collapse of the Bronze Age palaces and the creation of Archaic city-states, these four... -
From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context by Nancy Thomson De Grummond
RRP: €83.30€63.95This volume brings together the work of leading scholars on two of the most important, yet puzzling, extant ensembles of Hellenistic Age sculpture: the Great Altar at Pergamon, with its Gigantomachy and scenes from the life of Telephos, and the Cave at... -
Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building by Charlotte R. Potts
€89.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108845281Author Charlotte R. PottsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The Moral Mirror of Roman Art by Rabun Taylor
RRP: €107.10€81.67This interdisciplinary study explores the meanings of mirrors and reflections in Roman art and society. When used as metaphors in Roman visual and literary discourses, mirrors had a strongly moral force, reflecting not random reality but rather a... -
Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles by Sheila Dillon
RRP: €107.10€81.67This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Sheila Dillon considers the few original bronze and marble portrait statues preserved from the Classical and Hellenistic periods together with the... -
The Furniture and Furnishings of Ancient Greek Houses and Tombs by Dimitra Andrianou
RRP: €111.85€96.90In this book, Dimitra Andrianou analyses the furniture and furnishings found in late Classical and Hellenistic houses, tombs, and inscriptions of ancient Greece. Questioning the wealth of images of furniture as portrayed on vases, she focuses on the... -
The Art of the Saracens in Egypt by Stanley Lane-Poole
RRP: €35.70€25.68Brought to perfection in the Middle Ages, Saracenic art possesses an unmistakable style, instantly recognised wherever it occurs, from the Alcazar of Seville to the mosques of Samarkand, and the ruins of Gaur in Bengal. With centres in Syria, Turkey,... -
War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict by Anastasia Bakogianni
€45.74War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving ancient Greek and... -
Shoes, Slippers, and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity by Sadie Pickup
RRP: €47.59€41.72This edited volume groups research on the significance of ancient feet and footwear, much of which was presented, discussed and reviewed at the conference: Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Antiquity, held at Newcastle University and the... -
The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences by Deborah Lynn Porter
RRP: €52.35€42.77This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural... -
A Manual of Egyptian Pottery Volume 3 by Anna Wodzinska
RRP: €43.44€42.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982554418Author Anna WodzinskaPage Count 288Imprint Ancient Egypt Research AssociatesPublisher Ancient Egypt Research Associates -
The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art - Terracotta Oil Lamps by Christopher Lightfoot
RRP: €77.35€63.96This publication, the fourth in a series that meticulously catalogues works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's renowned Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art, focuses on the collection's 453 terracotta oil lamps dating from the Classical, Hellenistic,... -
Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire by Hérica Valladares
RRP: €107.10€89.87Tenderness is not a notion commonly associated with the Romans, whose mythical origin was attributed to brutal rape. Yet, as Hérica Valladares argues in this ground-breaking study, in the second half of the first century BCE Roman poets, artists, and... -
Memory Of Empires by Georges BERNANOS
€56.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991938Author Georges BERNANOSFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 185g