The Temple of Athena at Assos

Informationen zum Autor Bonna Daix Wescoat is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University. Klappentext A fully illustrated study of the Doric Temple of Athena at Assos! in modern Turkey. Bonna Daix Wescoat presents a complete inventory of the architecture and ornament! proposes a new reconstruction of the building! and situates the Temple within the formative development of monumental architecture in Archaic Greece. Zusammenfassung This volume presents a comprehensive investigation of one of the most unusual archaic Greek temples. The Temple of Athena at Assos! in modern Turkey! was built in a city that had no prior monumental tradition in either architecture or sculpture! so that the entire building constitutes an exercise in architectural invention. In this fully illustrated study! Bonna Daix Wescoat assembles for the first time a complete inventory of the architecture (documenting two phasesof construction)! presents newly discovered epistyle reliefs and decorated metopes! proposes a new reconstruction of the building! and situates the Temple within the formative development of monumental architecture in Archaic Greece.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Bonna Daix Wescoat, Bonna Daix (Associate Professor of Art History Wescoat
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 15.03.2010, retardé
• EAN: 9780198143826
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814382-6
• Pages: 320
• Thèmes: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; Oxford Monographs on Classical; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Histoire de l'art