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Author : Peter Johansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Phidias and the Parthenon Sculptures written by Peter Johansen and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Dennis Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026926
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Parthenon Sculptures written by Ian Dennis Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photographs focus on the pediment sculptures that filled the triangular gables at each end of the temple; the metopes that crowned the architrave surmounting the outer columns; and the frieze that ran around the four sides of the building, inside the colonnade. Comparative images, showing the sculptures in full and fine detail, bring out particular features of design and help to contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book further reflects on how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. In particular, Jenkins expands on the irony of our intimate knowledge and appreciation of the sculptures--a relationship far more intense than that experienced by their ancient, intended spectators--as they have been transformed from architectural ornaments into objects of art.
Author : Phidias
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Phidias written by Phidias and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Johansen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Phidias and the Parthenon sculptures written by Paul Johansen and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Boardman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Parthenon and Its Sculptures written by John Boardman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of the sculptures which decorate the Parthenon in Athens are accompanied by a discussion of the historical, social, and religious significance of the temple.
Author : Peter Johansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Phidias and the Parthenon sculptures written by Peter Johansen and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Breton Connelly
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385350503
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Parthenon Enigma written by Joan Breton Connelly and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis—the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state—from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers, rationalists, and rhetoricians, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon’s full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part, Connelly argues, to the frieze’s dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces, in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life, The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent.
Author : Ian Jenkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Parthenon Frieze written by Ian Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artistic genius of Athens in the fifth century BC reached its peak in the sculpted marble reliefs of the Parthenon frieze. Designed by Phidias and carved by a team of anonymous masons, the frieze adorned the temple of Athena on the Acropolis and represents a festival procession in honour of the Olympian gods. Its original composition and precise meaning, however, have long been the subject of lively debate. Most of what survives of the frieze is now in the British Museum or the Acropolis Museum in Athens; the rest is scattered among a number of European collections. This book reconstructs the frieze in its entirety according to the most up-to-date research, with a detailed scene-by-scene commentary, and the superb quality of the carving is vividly shown in a series of close-up photographs. In his introduction Ian Jenkins places the frieze in its architectural, historical and artistic setting. He discusses the various interpretations suggested by previous scholars, and finally puts forward a view of his own.
Author : Peter Johansen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Phidias and the Parthenon Sculptures ... Translated by Ingeborg Andersen written by Peter Johansen and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786631822
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book The Parthenon Marbles written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of an art world scandal—the seizure and sale of Ancient Greek sculptures to the British Museum—and a passionate cry for their return to the Parthenon in Athens. The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequently seized by Parliament and sold to the British Museum to help pay off his debts. This scandal, exacerbated by the inept handling of the sculptures by their self-appointed guardians, remains unresolved to this day. In his fierce, eloquent account of a shameful piece of British imperial history, Christopher Hitchens makes the moral, artistic, legal, and political case for re-unifying the Parthenon frieze in Athens. The opening of the New Acropolis Museum emphatically trumps the British Museum’s long-standing (if always questionable) objection that there is nowhere in Athens to house the Parthenon Marbles. With contributions by Nadine Gordimer and Professor Charalambos Bouras, The Parthenon Marbles will surely end all arguments about where these great treasures belong, and help bring a two-centuries-old disgrace to a just conclusion.
Author : Phidias
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021185617
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Phidias written by Phidias and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this informative overview of the life and work of Phidias, one of the greatest sculptors of ancient Greece, readers will discover fascinating details about his most famous works, including the Parthenon frieze and the statue of Zeus at Olympia. With full-color photographs and expert analysis, 'Phidias' is an essential resource for art historians and anyone interested in classical sculpture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Olga Palagia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614513538
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Greek Sculpture written by Olga Palagia and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Greek Sculpture aims to provide a detailed examination of current research and directions in the field. Bringing together an international cast of contributors from Greece, Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, and the United States, the volume incorporates new areas of research, such as the sculptures of Messene and Macedonia, sculpture in Roman Greece, and the contribution of Greek sculptors in Rome, as well as important aspects of Greek sculpture like techniques and patronage. The written sources (literary and epigraphical) are explored in dedicated chapters, as are function and iconography and the reception of Greek sculpture in modern Europe. Inspired by recent exhibitions on Lysippos and Praxiteles,the book also revisits the style and the personal contributions of the great masters.
Author : William St. Clair
Publisher : London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford U.P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Lord Elgin and the Marbles written by William St. Clair and published by London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford U.P. This book was released on 1967 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om Lord Elgin (1766-1841) og hans erhvervelse af de klassiske skulpturer og friser fra Parthenon-templet i Athen
Author : Dorothy King
Publisher : Hutchinson Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780091800130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Elgin Marbles written by Dorothy King and published by Hutchinson Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxbow says: This book's author does not shy away from expressing her opinions on the destruction of ancient sites in Greece and her belief that the Elgin Marbles are best left in the care of the British Museum, or at least for the time being.
Author : Sir Henry Ellis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles of the Classical Ages written by Sir Henry Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Ellis (Bibliothécaire au British Museum)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles of the Classical Ages in the British Museum written by Henry Ellis (Bibliothécaire au British Museum) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olga Palagia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004111981
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Pediments of the Parthenon written by Olga Palagia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only comprehensive account of the Parthenon pediments in English and the first in any language since 1963. It serves as an up-to-date introduction to their study and includes new proposals for the restoration and interpretation of their composition. Debate on the Parthenon pediments has concentrated on the interpretation of individual figures, the restoration of the missing parts and the question of Roman repairs. The present study is based on autopsy and considers the evidence of technical details. It questions the attribution of certain familiar pieces and offers new suggestions for restoring the east pediment. All sculptures are illustrated, some with photographs taken especially for this book, and there are new drawings of the restorations proposed by the author. Chapter 1 is a general introduction to the study of the pediments. It includes an assessment of the documentation and a summary of stylistic and technical characteristics of the sculptures. Chapters 2 and 3 treat each pediment separately. The discussion of individual sculptures is incorporated in a continuous narrative which sets them within the context of the overall composition.
