Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World - The Metopes of Selinus

Informationen zum Autor Clemente Marconi is the James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. A scholar of Greek art and archaeology, he is the author of Selinunte: Le metope dell' Heraion and editor of Greek Painted Pottery: Images, Contexts, and Controversies. Klappentext Provides a new interpretation for the use of figural decoration in Greek temples of the archaic period. Zusammenfassung In this book! Clemente Marconi provides a new interpretation for the use of figural decoration in Greek temples of the archaic period! through a study of the archaic metopes of Selinus. Marconi examines the function of figures on temples within the cultural and social context of the communities for which these images were created. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Figure and temple in the Greek world until the beginning of the late archaic period (ca. 700-530 BC); 2. Monumental architecture and colonization in archaic Sicily; 3. Selinus: history and urban development of an archaic Greek colony; 4. The small metopes; 5. Temple C and its metopes; 6. Gods, heroes, and monsters: the cultural identity of a Greek colony in the West.

Product details

• Authors: Clemente Marconi, Marconi Clemente
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107689374
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68937-4
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; 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