Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture - The Allure of the Classical

This book is an illuminating analysis showing the power and allure of Greek Classical past in Hellenistic and Roman art.

List of contents

1. Creating the past: the origins of classicism in Hellenistic sculpture; 2. From Greece to Rome: retrospective sculpture in the early empire; 3. From metropolis to empire: retrospective sculpture in the high empire; 4. From Roman to Christian: retrospection and transformation in late antique art.

About the author

Rachel Kousser is Assistant Professor of Ancient Art at Brooklyn College and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, the Romish-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, and the American Numismatic Society. She has contributed several articles to the American Journal of Archaeology.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Kousser, Rachel Meredith Kousser, Rachel Meredith (Brooklyn College Kousser, Kousser Rachel Meredith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107699700
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69970-0
• No. of pages: 223
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, History of Art, Ancient Rome, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek style, Ancient Roman style