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Zwei Gesichter Der Eremitage
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Book Synopsis Greeks on the Black Sea by : Anna A. Trofimova
Download or read book Greeks on the Black Sea written by Anna A. Trofimova and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks traveled widely by sea and founded colonies in far-flung locations. On the north coast of the Black Sea were a number of such Greek settlements, places where the Greeks made contact with the local Scythian population. Greek goods were traded extensively throughout the region, and many of these often-luxurious articles eventually made their way into tombs. From its wealth of such Greek finds from the Black Sea, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has lent some 175 Greek objects to an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa. This richly illustrated catalogue to the exhibition presents nine essays on the archaeology of the northern Black Sea region and its history, culture, and art, including sculpture, pottery, gems, and jewelry. Written by curators at the State Hermitage Museum, Greeks on the Black Sea presents an intriguing world at once Greek and barbarian.
Book Synopsis Ancient West & East by : G.R. Tsetskhladze
Download or read book Ancient West & East written by G.R. Tsetskhladze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :0870999591 Total Pages :325 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis The Golden Deer of Eurasia by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book The Golden Deer of Eurasia written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectacular works of art were excavated between 1986 and 1990 from burial mounds at Filippovka, in Russia, on the border of Europe and Asia. The objects were created from about the fifth to the fourth century B.C. by pastoral people who lived on the steppes near the southern Ural Mountains. The large funerary deposits include wooden, deerlike creatures with predatory mouths and elongated snouts and ears, overlaid with sheets of gold and silver, as well as gold attachments for wooden vessels and gold and silver luxury wares imported from Achaemenid Iran. These treasures are now in the collection of the Archaeological Museum, Ufa, in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. The discoveries at Filippovka open a new chapter in the history of the material culture of the nomads who in the first millennium B.C. traversed the steppe corridor extending from the Black Sea region to China. Yet the information provided by the Filippovka excavations is complicated and ambiguous. The identity of the people represented by the finds remains uncertain, but the forms and ornamentation of many works from Filippovka, as well as the cemetery's location in the southern Urals, argue for the cultural-chronological designation of this material as Early Sarmatian. Stylistic features, however, point also to the arts of Siberia, Central Asia, and China in the east and to the art of the "Meotian-Scythians" in the west. Imported Achaemenid goods raise questions about their place of production and about the circumstances that brought them to be included in tombs on the southern Ural steppes. Finally, robbers penetrated the burials in antiquity, destroying much of the evidence necessary for understanding the Filippovka nomads' religious and funerary practices. These are among the issues addressed in this volume, the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art that brings together the remarkable new material from Filippovka and, from the incomparably rich collections of the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, related luxury objects found in graves of other Eurasian steppe tribes. Gold and silver objects from the Scythian Black Sea tombs; textiles and leather and wooden works from the Altai Mountains; and gold and bronze pieces from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia illustrate developments in the art of the steppes in the centuries preceding the Filippovka burials, in contemporary societies, and in later centuries, toward the turn of the first millennium B.C. These outstanding works not only place the Filippovka discoveries in their proper historical and cultural context but are themselves fascinating and enigmatic.
Book Synopsis Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art by : Amy C. Smith
Download or read book Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art written by Amy C. Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study Dr Smith investigates the use of political personifications in the visual arts of Athens in the Classical period (480-323 BCE). Whether on objects that served primarily private roles (e.g. decorated vases) or public roles (e.g. cult statues and document stelai), these personifications represented aspects of the state of Athens—its people, government, and events—as well as the virtues (e.g. Nemesis, Peitho or Persuasion, and Eirene or Peace) that underpinned it. Athenians used the same figural language to represent other places and their peoples. This is the only study that uses personifications as a lens through which to view the intellectual and political climate of Athens in the Classical period.
Book Synopsis Tapestry in the Baroque by : Thomas P. Campbell
Download or read book Tapestry in the Baroque written by Thomas P. Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :1588392430 Total Pages :434 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (883 download)
Book Synopsis Poussin and Nature by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Poussin and Nature written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (15941665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as Constable, Turner, and Ce;zanne. As the British critic William Hazlitt noted in 1844, 'This great and learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time'. This beautiful catalogue presents the first in-depth examination of Poussin's landscapes. Featured here are more than 40 paintings, ranging from the artist's early Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works, designed as metaphors or allegories for the processes of nature. Also included are approximately 60 drawings and essays by internationally renowned scholars who examine the painter's visual, literary, and philosophical influences as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon."--Publisher description.
Book Synopsis Achaemenid Impact in the Black Sea by : Jens Nieling
Download or read book Achaemenid Impact in the Black Sea written by Jens Nieling and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 200 years, from the second half of the sixth century to the decades before 330 BC, the Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids ruled an enormous empire stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Afghanistan and India. The Great Kings Dareios I and Xerxes I even tried to conquer Greece and the northern Black Sea territories. Although they failed, parts of Thrace did become part of their dominion for a short period. The question always rises as to why the Great Kings were interested in the western and northern Pontic zones. In contrast to some of the other satrapies, such as Egypt, Phoenicia and Syria, the Black Sea had no prosperous cities or provinces to offer. One possible answer might be the desire to conquer every part of the known world. After 479 BC, it seems that the Great Kings acknowledged the fact that the coast and the Caucasus formed the natural borders of their Empire. The satraps, on the other hand, could not avoid becoming involved in the affairs of the Black Sea region in order to safeguard the frontiers they had established. They had to incorporate the Greeks, as accepted inhabitants of their province, into the Persian administrative system. Possibly they achieved this by granting them the monopoly in sea trade and using the Anatolian Greeks as the main active bearers and transmitters of Persian customs and culture. More research into this chapter of Persian history is still required.
Book Synopsis Pontus and the Outside World by : C. J. Tuplin
Download or read book Pontus and the Outside World written by C. J. Tuplin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deploys both written (epigraphic, papyrological and literary) and archaeological (pottery, metalwork) evidence to cast new light on the economic, cultural and political contacts between Pontus and the Mediterranean world in the archaic, classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Book Synopsis Hammering Techniques in Greek and Roman Jewellery and Toreutics by : Treister
Download or read book Hammering Techniques in Greek and Roman Jewellery and Toreutics written by Treister and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of hammering techniques in Greek, Roman and related (e.g. Graeco-Scythian) jewellery and toreutics based on the analysis of ancient tools used for manufacture of hammered metalwork, primarily punches and matrices with figural designs, and actual finds of metalwork and jewellery. The book offers essays on metalworkers' tools from Mycenean Greece until the Late Roman Period. It includes chapters on different categories of hammered metalwork in the corresponding periods and Excursus about particular matrices or punches and hoards of toreutics. Bringing together the tools of metalworkers and actual objects manufactured with them opens new perspectives on chronological and cultural attribution of ancient jewellery and toreutics and illuminates the role of mass production and artistic creativity in ancient history. The book is illustrated with 133 photographs.
Book Synopsis Scythians and Greeks by : David Braund
Download or read book Scythians and Greeks written by David Braund and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scythians and Greeks will open up the region to a wider audience, bringing the Scythians into the mainstream of the western European study of ancient history; it will also take further the debate started by E. H. Minns' landmark publication of the same name published almost a century ago. The book brings together experts in the field, giving a taste of the scholarship coming out of the former USSR after years of separation and providing a starting-point for engagement with the Black Sea region."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Greeks and Natives in the Cimmerian Bosporus, 7th-1st Centuries BC by : Sergei L. Solovyov
Download or read book Greeks and Natives in the Cimmerian Bosporus, 7th-1st Centuries BC written by Sergei L. Solovyov and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of primarily archaeological papers given at a 2000 conference in Taman, Russia. Topics explored include trade, colonisation, agriculture, art and cultural influences. Essays range from specific excavation reports to broader surveys of phases of history in the region.
Download or read book Ancient West & East written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silk Road Art and Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Road to Byzantium by : Frank Althaus
Download or read book The Road to Byzantium written by Frank Althaus and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to Byzantium offers a striking new perspective on the art of the Greek, Roman and Byzantine worlds. It focuses on the luxury arts, mostly objects made for wealthy patrons from precious materials such as gold, silver and ivory. Such works were commissioned to exalt their owners and to impress and delight others. They continue to fulfil that role today.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003 by : Carol C. Mattusch
Download or read book Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003 written by Carol C. Mattusch and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains over 150 papers presented at the Classical Congress held in Boston, Massachussetts in August 2003.
Book Synopsis Greek Jewellery from the Benaki Museum Collections by : Mouseio Benakē
Download or read book Greek Jewellery from the Benaki Museum Collections written by Mouseio Benakē and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Archäologische Museen und Stätten der römischen Antike by : Peter Noelke
Download or read book Archäologische Museen und Stätten der römischen Antike written by Peter Noelke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
