Image and Myth - A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art

Informationen zum Autor Luca Giuliani is the Rector of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and professor of classical archaeology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Joseph O'Donnell is a professional translator based in Berlin. Klappentext On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece - but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, the author describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. Zusammenfassung On museum visits! we pass by beautiful! well-preserved vases from ancient Greece - but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods! the author describes the intellectual! social! and artistic contexts in which the images were created.

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• Authors: Luca Giuliani, Giuliani Luca
• Assisted by: Joe O'Donnell (Translation), Joseph O'Donnell (Translation), O'Donnell Joe (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2013
• EAN: 9780226297651
• ISBN: 978-0-226-29765-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek style