Classical Art - From Greece to Rome

Informationen zum Autor Mary Beard and John Henderson both teach Classics at the University of Cambridge. Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, and John Henderson is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Klappentext The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome. Generals, rulers, and artists seized, imitated, and re-thought the stunning legacy of Greek painting and sculpture, culminating in the greatest art-collector the world had ever seen: the Roman emperor Hadrian. This exciting new look at Classical art starts with the excavation of the buried city of Pompeii, and investigates the grandiose monuments of ancient tyrants, and the sensual beauty of Apollo and Venus. Concluding with that most influential invention of all, the human portrait, it highlights the re-discovery of Classical art in the modern world, from the treasure hunts of Renaissance Rome to scientific retrieval of artworks in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung This look at Classical art starts with the excavation of the buried city of Pompeii, and investigates the monuments of ancient tyrants, and the sensual beauty of Apollo and Venus. Concluding with the human portrait, it highlights the re-discovery of Classical art in the modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Painting Antiquity: Rediscovering Art 2: Moving Statues: Art in the Age of Imitation 3: Sensuality, Sexuality, and the Love of Art 4: Sizing up Power: Masters of Art 5: Facing up to Antiquity: Art to the Life Notes Timeline Bibliographic Essay Museums and Websites List of Illustrations Maps and Plans Index

Product details

• Authors: Mary Beard, Beard Mary, John Henderson, Henderson John
• Assisted by: Mary Beard (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2001
• EAN: 9780192842374
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284237-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Oxford History of Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Cultural Studies, Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of Art, Reference works, Ancient Rome, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek style, Ancient Roman style