Art And Archaeology Of Antiquity

Author : Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822031401326

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Art and Archaeology of Antiquity by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule Pdf

Preface Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections An Etruscan Zoo Revisited Aphrodisiaca: Satyr, Maenad and Eros Four Important Roman Imperial Sestertii: Trajan, Hadrian and Septimius Severus The Statue of the Damaskenos at the American School at Athens A Greek Theme and its Survivals: The Ruler's Shield in Tomb and Temple Cappadocia on the Eve of the Byzantine Empire Young Man on Horseback (500 B.C.) Classical Bronzes in Three American Museums Graeco-Roman Statues: I. Purpose and Setting; II. Literary and Archaeological Evidence for the Display and Grouping of Graeco-Roman Sculpture Greek and Roman Art at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste The Basel Dog: A Vindication Lions: Attic and Related An Archaic Terra-cotta Rider A Greek Hero of Alexander the Great's Age Priapos and Maenad in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Three Imperial Portraits in America: Nero, Britannicus and Faustina II from Asia Minor Collectors of Greek Art: Edward Perry Warren and his Successors An Aegean Gold Hoard and the Court of Egypt Aphrodite Unveiled Greek, Etruscan, Roman Gold and Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: I. Archaic to Hellenistic Gold II. Hellenistic to Late Antique Gold and Silver Ancient Whips Dated Monuments of Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman Popular Art in Asia Minor: Pontus through Mysia Greek Funerary Animals, 450-300 B.C. Adventures of a Graeco-Roman Marble Herm A Greek Heroic Statue in Dallas Antiquities at Wellesley America's neoclassic sculptors: fallen angels resurrected Additional Notes Index.

Author : Oscar White Muscarella
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9056930419

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The Lie Became Great by Oscar White Muscarella Pdf

A thrilling analysis of the world of plunderers, forgers, antiquity dealers, collectors, museums, auction houses with one thing in common: a vivid interest in the Ancient Near East.

Author : William R. Biers
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Archaeological dating
ISBN : 9780415063197

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Art, Artefacts, and Chronology in Classical Archaeology by William R. Biers Pdf

An introduction to the ways scholars date the archaeological remains of classical antiquity. Specific examples from architecture, sculpture and painting are presented and the different methods of dating them are explained.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1644301210

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Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome by Anonim Pdf

Classical archaeology was long equated to ancient art history. Today these fields find themselves at a major crossroads. The influence on them-from the discipline of anthropology-has increased substantially in the past 15 years, adding to the ways in which scholars can study the Roman past. The classical archaeologist of the 21st century is likely to be versed in Greek and Latin, computer technology, ancient history, great monuments, various hard sciences such as physics or even astronomy, GPS, GIS, surveying, mapping, digitizing, artistic rendering, numismatics, geo-science, astronomy, environmental studies, material culture analysis and/or a host of other disciplines and sub-disciplines.Universities are seeking specialists whose talents embrace not one but several different fields of research. It is not necessary for each scholar to know everything about each discipline being used within the fields of art history, classical archaeology and anthropology, but these days a basic knowledge of all relevant disciplines is becoming indispensable. This book will layout the basic information and steps necessary to take the beginning archaeologist's search for knowledge of the past and lead them to adventures of the future. here have been numerous textbooks about the art history and monuments of ancient Rome. With this new work, the authors have attempted to create something slightly different. Students of the subject will still be able to gain the essential basic knowledge of the most important works of art and architecture that have been the focus of university art history courses for more than a century and remain the essential starting point for gaining a window into Roman Antiquity. In addition to this, however, anthropology, classical studies, social history and computer graphics have been used throughout this text in order to help the beginning student understand the daily life of the ancient Romans. The authors have sought to emphasize not only the greatest works of ancient art but have also included utilitarian objects which were more typical of the Roman life experience. It is hoped that this holistic approach can afford an appreciation not only of that estimated one-sixth that formed the Roman elite but also the remaining five-sixths who formed the majority of the Roman people. New technologies are being developed each year allowing increased possibilities for understanding the past. These range from innovations in museology as exemplified by the ruin within a museum approach of Rome's Capitoline Museums to the virtualreality 3D walk-throughs that allow the general public to experience the past first-hand by passing through museums or even reconstructed ancient buildings and sites. If a picture is worth a thousand words, the 21st century is showing that there is a growing desire to offer detailed and intimate snapshots that allow the past to resonate and reveal itself in ways not thought possible a generation ago. In this textbook the authors present more than 400 images, including over 100 new plans and specially commissioned reconstructions.

Author : John Boardman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252834

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The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity by John Boardman Pdf

From one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other ancient peoples, from Britain to China In this book, acclaimed archaeologist and art historian John Boardman explores Greek art as a foreign art transmitted to the non-Greeks of antiquity—peoples who weren’t necessarily able to judge the meaning of Greek art and who may have regarded the Greeks themselves with great hostility. Boardman examines how and why the arts of the classical world traveled and to what effect, from Britain to China, from roughly the eighth century BCE to the early centuries CE. In some places, such as Italy, Greek images were overwhelmingly successful. In Egypt, the Celtic world, the eastern steppes, and other regions with strong local traditions, they were never effectively assimilated. And in cultures where there was a subtler blend of influences, notably in the Buddhist east, classical images served as a catalyst to the generation of new styles. Along the way, Boardman demonstrates that looking at Greek art from the outside provides a wealth of new insights into Greek art itself, and he raises important questions about how images in general are copied and reinterpreted.

Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892366680

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History of the Art of Antiquity by Johann Joachim Winckelmann Pdf

"Translation of a foundational text for the disciplines of art history and archaeology. Offers a systematic history of art in ancient Egypt, Persia, Etruria, Rome, and, above all, Greece that synthesizes the visual and written evidence then available"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John K. Papadopoulos,Piet De Jong
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780876619605

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The Art of Antiquity by John K. Papadopoulos,Piet De Jong Pdf

The archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolors and drawings - well over 400 - by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes, people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running archaeological projects in Greece.The aim of this volume is to bring these illustrations out of the storage drawers and to assemble in color a representative sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jong's contributions. Along the way, this book tells the story of the Agora excavations and assesses their contribution to scholarship. It includes essays by 16 scholars currently working at the Agora, and surveys the entire span of the material they are studying - from Neolithic poetry to the Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine frescoes from the Church of Ayios Spyridon.

Author : Jane Fejfer,Tobias Fischer-Hansen,Annette Rathje
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8772898291

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The Rediscovery of Antiquity by Jane Fejfer,Tobias Fischer-Hansen,Annette Rathje Pdf

Classical Archaeologists, art historians and artists consider the Role of the Artist' in the rediscovery of the past.

Author : Johannes Siapkas,Lena Sjögren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136254024

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Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity by Johannes Siapkas,Lena Sjögren Pdf

Displaying 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 also mediate ideals that inform modern perceptions of antiquity. This book analyzes how an art historical tradition establishes and preserves an idealized view of antiquity in classical archaeology and in museum exhibitions. The authors investigate how these ideals are kept alive today—an approach that often is neglected in studies on ancient reception.This book offers an international scope and illustrates how academic conceptual foundations influence museum exhibitions.This timely volume discusses contemporary museum exhibitions of ancient sculpture and clarifies how old discourses continue to affect museum exhibitions and conceptualizations of ancient sculptures. The authors analyze close to 100 museums around the world, and demonstrate the ways in which ancient sculptures are mediated across Europe and the West.

Author : James Cuno
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400839247

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Who Owns Antiquity? by James Cuno Pdf

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological sites, countries such as Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and China have claimed ancient artifacts as state property, called for their return from museums around the world, and passed laws against their future export. But in Who Owns Antiquity?, one of the world's leading museum directors vigorously challenges this nationalistic position, arguing that it is damaging and often disingenuous. "Antiquities," James Cuno argues, "are the cultural property of all humankind," "evidence of the world's ancient past and not that of a particular modern nation. They comprise antiquity, and antiquity knows no borders." Cuno argues that nationalistic retention and reclamation policies impede common access to this common heritage and encourage a dubious and dangerous politicization of antiquities--and of culture itself. Antiquities need to be protected from looting but also from nationalistic identity politics. To do this, Cuno calls for measures to broaden rather than restrict international access to antiquities. He advocates restoration of the system under which source countries would share newly discovered artifacts in exchange for archaeological help, and he argues that museums should again be allowed reasonable ways to acquire undocumented antiquities. Cuno explains how partage broadened access to our ancient heritage and helped create national museums in Cairo, Baghdad, and Kabul. The first extended defense of the side of museums in the struggle over antiquities, Who Owns Antiquity? is sure to be as important as it is controversial. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : Karl Otfried Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : NYPL:33433081865291

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Ancient Art and Its Remains by Karl Otfried Müller Pdf

Author : Caroline Vout
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691177038

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Classical Art by Caroline Vout Pdf

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of what classical art has meant and continues to mean.

Author : Erik Hornung,Betsy Morrell Bryan,National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : UCSD:31822031239254

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The Quest for Immortality by Erik Hornung,Betsy Morrell Bryan,National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Pdf

"This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and monumental and small-scale sculpture reveal the reverence and awe with which the Egyptians considered the mystery of death. The essays in this book explore Egyptian art history, customs and worship, with specific focus on the Amduat, a book devoted to the pharaoh's 12-hour journey to the afterlife. Additional writings detail the background of the collection and focus upon the role of art in ancient Egypt."--Amazon.

Author : Asher Ovadiah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1899828478

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Art and Archaeology in Israel and Neighbouring Countries by Asher Ovadiah Pdf

Asher Ovadiah is Professor of Art History at Tel Aviv University, and an authority on the Classical and Byzantine monuments of Israel. This selection of articles, published over the last twenty-five years, falls into four groups and is gathered around a number of common themes. A first group is concerned with the architecture of pagan temples, early churches, synagogues and a Roman theatre. A second deals with sculpture and reliefs, with the emphasis on iconography, style and symbolism, while a third group is concerned with mosaics in secular and religious contexts, with reference to the Classical heritage and anti-Classical trends, philosophical concepts and links with artistic centres. Finally, a fourth group treats the symbolic and allegorical significance of various works of art and Greek laudatory inscriptions.

Author : Muscarella
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004502147

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The Lie Became Great by Muscarella Pdf

The Lie Became Great explores the closed society of international plunderers and forgers which thrives as a subculture of the Art World. These multi-cultural denizens include antiquity dealers, collectors, museum curators, forgers working in conjunction with auction houses, museums and galleries. Forgeries are made to be sold, and a great number pass into the Art World - collections, exhibitions, catalogues, and popular and scholarly journals - complete with their fabricated stories of excavation, and how they were found. The Lie Became Great documents the success and activities of one small corner of this vast network - artifacts form the Ancient Near East - with hundreds of detailed catalogue entries of forgeries. The participants in this society gain money, prestige, power, position as they distort and irretrievably damage the true story of our cultural heritage. STYX PUBLICATIONS