Description
This innovative look at ancient Greek painting combines the most complete survey to date of the painted monuments of classical antiquity with an in-depth exploration of the ways in which the people of Ancient Greece appreciated this demanding art.
Plantzos looks at techniques, styles, themes and masters as well as their admirers, clients, and critics. At the same time, he discusses recent breakthroughs in archaeology, cultural studies, and art history. The book is unique in its reflections of new, multidisciplinary approaches to the material record which it combines with a more traditional, art-historical exploration; it draws on a wide range of ancient authorities - from Plato and Xenophon to Cicero, Pliny, Lucian, and Philostratus.
The book covers painting in Bronze-Age Greece (Cyclades, Crete, Santorini, Mycenaean Greece); painting of the Archaic, the Classical, and the Hellenistic periods, and ends with a study of Graeco-Roman painting in the 2nd-3rd c. AD.
Dimitris Plantzos is the author of Greek Art and Archaeology, 1200-30 BC (Kapon Editions, 2016).
About the Author
Dimitris Plantzos is associate professor of classical archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has written extensively on Greek art, classical culture and its modern receptions, and archaeological theory. Previous publications include Greek Art and Archaeology c.1200-30 BC (Kapon Editions) and (co-editor) A Companion to Greek Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)
Reviews
'...highlights the ways that the different mediums of visual culture, and particularly its manufacture, can be understood. Dimitris Plantzos's glossy and colourful volume sets out to investigate the history of depiction in ancient Greece.'
Claire Nesbitt
Book Information
ISBN 9786185209209
Author Dimitris Plantzos
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Kapon Editions
Publisher Kapon Editions
Weight(grams) 1765g
Dimensions(mm) 279mm * 220mm * 26mm
