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OverviewThe quality of Greek painting and the intrinsic interest of the figure subjects chosen for depiction were never greater than in Athens in the fifty years following the invention of the 'red figure' technique is about 530 BC. The period is covered in this sequel to Athenian Black Figure Vases, also written by John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John BoardmanPublisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9780500201435ISBN 10: 0500201439 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 10 November 1975 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Replaced By: 9780500202449 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviews'Admirable text ... full of penetrating, often clever, observations' - British Book News Author InformationSir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |