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Author : Elizabeth Angelicoussis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Woburn Abbey Collection of Classical Antiquities written by Elizabeth Angelicoussis and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Review of Elizabeth Angelicoussis, The Woburn Abbey Collection of Classical Antiquities written by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule and published by . This book was released on 1993* with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Angelicoussis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783805313032
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani. Great Britain written by Elizabeth Angelicoussis and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Vout
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400890276
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Classical Art written by Caroline Vout and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth Angelicoussis
Publisher : Philipp Von Zabern
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures written by Elizabeth Angelicoussis and published by Philipp Von Zabern. This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Viccy Coltman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019955126X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain Since 1760 written by Viccy Coltman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated study of the reception of classical sculptures in the early modern period. Viccy Coltman contrasts the culture of British 18th century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior, with the focus upon individual specimens by archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later.
Author : Gil Renberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004330232
Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set) written by Gil Renberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Dreams May Come was the winner of the 2018 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, awarded by the Society for Classical Studies. In this book, Gil H. Renberg examines the ancient religious phenomenon of “incubation", the ritual of sleeping at a divinity’s sanctuary in order to obtain a prophetic or therapeutic dream. Most prominently associated with the Panhellenic healing god Asklepios, incubation was also practiced at the cult sites of numerous other divinities throughout the Greek world, but it is first known from ancient Near Eastern sources and was established in Pharaonic Egypt by the time of the Macedonian conquest; later, Christian worship came to include similar practices. Renberg’s exhaustive study represents the first attempt to collect and analyze the evidence for incubation from Sumerian to Byzantine and Merovingian times, thus making an important contribution to religious history. This set consists of two books.
Author : Lucy Pollard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857724339
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Classical Greece written by Lucy Pollard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed by adventurers, merchants, diplomats and men of the cloth. In particular, John Covel (1638-1722) - chaplain to the Levant Company in the 1670s, later Master of Christ's College, Cambridge - was representative of a thoroughly eccentric band of Englishmen who saw Greece and the Ottoman world through the lens of classical history. Using a variety of sources, including Covel's largely unpublished diaries, Lucy Pollard shows that these curious travellers imported, alongside their copies of Pausanias and Strabo, a package of assumptions about the societies they discovered. Disparaging contemporary Greeks as unworthy successors to their classical ancestors allowed Englishmen to view themselves as the true inheritors of classical culture, even as - when opportunity arose - they removed antiquities from the sites they described. At the same time, they often admired the Turks, about whom they had fewer preconceptions. This is a major contribution to reception and post-Restoration ideas about antiquity.
Author : Stephen L. Dyson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300134975
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts written by Stephen L. Dyson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divThe stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This fascinating book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and why artifacts have moved from foreign soil to collections around the world. As archaeologist Stephen Dyson shows, Greek and Roman archaeological study was closely intertwined with ideas about class and social structure; the rise of nationalism and later political ideologies such as fascism; and the physical and cultural development of most of the important art museums in Europe and the United States, whose prestige depended on their creation of collections of classical art. Accompanied by a discussion of the history of each of the major national traditions and their significant figures, this lively book shows how classical archaeology has influenced attitudes about areas as wide-ranging as tourism, nationalism, the role of the museum, and historicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art./DIV
Author : Jane Fejfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture written by Jane Fejfer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521854989
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture written by Sheila Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings together a wide range of evidence that has never before been studied as a group. Sheila Dillon considers the few original bronze and marble portrait statues preserved from the Classical and Hellenistic periods together with the large number of Greek portraits known only through Roman 'copies'. In focusing on a series of images that have previously been ignored, Dillon investigates the range of strategies and modes utilized in these portraits to construct their subject's identity. Her methods undermine two basic tenets of Greek portraiture: first, that is was only in the late Hellenistic period, under Roman influence, that Greek portraits exhibited a wide range of styles, including descriptive realism; and second, that in most cases, one can easily tell a subject's public role - that is, whether he is a philosopher of an orator - from the visual traits used in this portrait. The sculptures studied here instead show that the proliferation of portrait styles takes place much earlier, in the late Classical period; and that the identity encoded in these portraits is much more complex and layered than has previously been realized. Despite the fact that these portraits lack the one feature most prized by scholars of ancient portraiture - a name - they are evidence of utmost importance for the history of Greek portraiture.
Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892369698
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural identity in the classical world is explored from a variety of angles.
Author : Christian Niederhuber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192845659
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Roman Imperial Portrait Practice in the Second Century AD written by Christian Niederhuber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were made available to both the mint and the marble workshops in Rome, assuming a close correspondence between portraits on coins and in the round. All ofthis, however, has never been clearly proven, nor has it been disproven by a close systematic examination of the evidence on a broad material basis by those scholars who have questioned it.Through systematic case studies of Faustina the Younger's and Marcus Aurelius' portraits on coins and in sculpture, this book provides new insights into the functioning of the imperial image in Rome in the second century AD that move a difficult, much-discussed subject forward decisively. The newevidence presented here has made it necessary to adjust the established model; more flexibility is needed to describe the processes and practices behind the phenomenon of 'repeated' imperial portraits and how the imperial portrait worked in the mint of Rome and in the metropolitan marbleworkshops.
Author : Jan Zahle
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8772192860
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Thorvaldsen written by Jan Zahle and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived most of his life in Rome, was not only one of Europe’s most soughtafter artists; he was also a collector. In addition to his own works and drawings, he built extensive collections of paintings, prints, drawings and books – and of ancient artefacts from Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquity: coins, lockets, containers, vases, lamps, fragments of sculpture and more. He also acquired a large collection of plaster casts, primarily after ancient sculptures and reliefs, but also of works dating from the Renaissance and up until his own lifetime. Thanks to Thorvaldsen’s bequest to the city of Copenhagen, his birthplace, all of these collections are still largely intact and well preserved at his museum. Home to a total of 657 plaster casts, the Thorvaldsen Museum’s cast collection is unique for several reasons: The collection offers us insight into the sculptor’s working methods and the development of his work because it served a clear function as an image bank of forms, motifs and subjects for Thorvaldsen’s own endeavours. Furthermore, the dual fact that the collection is so well preserved and was established over a relatively brief period of time makes it a valuable example illuminating the trade and distribution of plaster casts during the first half of the nineteenth century. These areas of study form the central focal point of Volume I of this publication. Volume II contains a catalogue of the individual objects in the cast collection, while Volume III collects the overviews, inventories, concordances and primary sources referred to in the first two volumes. Arising out of many years of study of Thorvaldsen’s cast collection conducted by their author, the classical archaeologist Jan Zahle, these books contain comprehensive source material from the period, much of it previously unknown.
Author : Shawn Caza
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789690307
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book KOINON I, 2018 written by Shawn Caza and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KOINON is a new international journal that encourages contributions to the study of classical numismatics from a wide variety of perspectives.
Author : National Museums Liverpool
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture: The portraits. pt. 1. Introduction. The female portraits. Concordances written by National Museums Liverpool and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catlogue of a collection of classical sculpture once owned by Henry Blundell and donated to the Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery in 1959.
Author : Jacobus Bracker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527567044
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Art of Reception written by Jacobus Bracker and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with processes of reception in visual arts. Images (in the broadest sense) from different cultures and times are examined. The volume focuses on two key interpretations of reception. On the one hand, reception is understood as a concept of repetition and revision spanning different cultures and time periods. On the other hand, reception is also seen as the process of perceiving images. Both ways of understanding can be described by the metaphor of migration of images: in the first case, images migrate from one medium to another; in the second case, they migrate from the artefact into the human body. The contributions to this volume cover a variety of approaches coming from different disciplines such as Ancient Oriental philology, English and American studies, classical studies, classical archaeology, communication studies, cultural studies, art history, aesthetics, literature, media studies, philosophy, journalism, Romance studies, sociology, Near Eastern archaeology, prehistory, and classical studies.
