Author: Catherine M. KeeslingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Sheds light upon the origins and significance of Greek portraiture.
The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis
Author: Catherine M. KeeslingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Sheds light upon the origins and significance of Greek portraiture.
The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World
Author: Sheila DillonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521764505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The first detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world from the fourth century BCE to the third century CE.
Monumental Private Votive Dedications on the Athenian Acropolis, Ca. 600-400 B.C.
Author: Catherine Marie KeeslingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
Early Greek Portraiture
Author: Catherine M. KeeslingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107162238
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece.
Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis
Author: Robin Francis RhodesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521469814
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Examines the several buildings making up the Acropolis as a group, or narrative.
Greek Votive Offerings
Author: William Henry Denham RousePublisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487406862
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens
Author: Vincent AzoulayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019066357X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. Representing the murderers of the tyrant Hipparchus in full action, these statues erected on the Agora of Athens have been in turn worshipped, outraged, and imitated. They have known hours of glory and moments of hardships, which have transformed them into true icons of Athenian democracy. The subject of this book is the remarkable story of this group statue and the ever-changing significance of its tyrant-slaying subjects. The first part of this book, in six chapters, tells the story of the murder of Hipparchus and of the statues of the two tyrannicides from the end of the sixth century to the aftermath of the restoration of democracy in 403. The second part, in three chapters, chronicles the fate and influence of the statues from the fourth century to the end of the Roman Empire. These chapters are followed by an epilogue that reveals new life for the statues in modern art and culture, including how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union made use of their iconography. By tracing the long trajectory of the tyrannicides-in deed and art-Azoulay provides a rich and fascinating microhistory that will be of interest to readers of classical art and history.
Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece
Author: Jeffrey M. HurwitPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107105714
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book offers insight into Greek conceptions of art, the artist, and artistic originality by examining artists' signatures in ancient Greece.
Greek Votive Offerings
Author: William Henry Denham RousePublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This essay explores the relationship of ancient Greeks to their dieties through votive offerings - those things given freely to a being conceived as superhuman.
Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047441656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.