Attic Document Reliefs - Art and Politics in Ancient Athens

Zusatztext This most complete and rigorous treatment of the subject! equipped with excellent photographs! is especially welcome...an outstanding work of scholarship! very handsomely produced! which everyone interested in Greek sculpture and Athenian history and culture will want to own. Zusammenfassung A unique! fully illustrated! and fascinating study of all the known carved reliefs decorating official inscriptions in classical and Hellenistic Athens. The author's new and illuminating work on the iconography of these reliefs shows how the gods! heroes! and other personifications were not simply decorative! but integral to the overall political message.

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• Autori: Carol L. Lawton, Carol L. (Associate Professor and Chair of Lawton, Carol L. (Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Department Lawton, Lawton Carol L.
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.09.1995
• EAN: 9780198149552
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814955-2
• Pagine: 190
• Serie: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient World, Non-graphic art forms, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Greek style, Non-graphic and electronic art forms