History of art: ancient & classical art books

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Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece

Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning...

Author: Leslie Kurke
ISBN: 9780691007366
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Leslie Kurke analyzes the ideological functions of Greek coinage as one of a number of symbolic practices that arise...  Read More >>

Egyptian Art

Egyptian Art

Author: Nordine Haddad ,  Reinhold Heller
ISBN: 9780714836270
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Egyptian art from its prehistoric origins through 3, 000 years of achievement.  Read More >>

Sondagen Im Fundament Des Grossen Altars

Sondagen Im Fundament Des Grossen Altars

Author: Wolfgang Radt ,  Gioia DeLuca
ISBN: 9783110160949
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Die Frage nach der genauen Datierung des Pergamonaltars ist in den letzten Jahren in der Fachliteratur heftig diskutiert...  Read More >>

Hellenistic Engraved Gems

Hellenistic Engraved Gems

Author: Dimitris Plantzos (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, The British Academy)
ISBN: 9780198150374
Format: Hardback
$490.95

This volume follows the development of Greek gem engraving from Alexander to Augustus. Hellenistic gems are studied...  Read More >>

The Writing on the Wall: Studies in the Architectural Context of Late Assyrian Palace Inscriptions

The Writing on the Wall: Studies in the Architectural...

Author: John Malcolm Russell
ISBN: 9780931464959
Format: Hardback
$152.85

The walls of the Assyrian palaces, as well as throne bases, doors and thresholds, were adorned with inscriptions....  Read More >>

Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 B.C. - A.D. 68

Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 B.C. -...

Author: S.E. Wood
ISBN: 9789004112810
Format: Hardback
$514.80

From the end of the Roman Republic to the death of the last Julio-Claudian emperor, portraits of women - on coins,...  Read More >>

The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity

The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity...

Author: Frances B. Titchener ,  Richard F. Moorton
ISBN: 9780520210295
Format: Hardback
$104.95

Plato and Aristotle both believed that the arts were mimetic creations of the human mind that had the power to influence...  Read More >>

Jade in Ancient Costa Rica

Jade in Ancient Costa Rica

Author: Julia Jones
ISBN: 9780300086294
Format: Paperback
$26.27

A review of current information on the jades and in their archaeological context, images and relationship to the...  Read More >>

Spatantike Stifter Im Heiligen Land: Darstellungen Und Inschriften Auf Bodenmosaiken in Kirchen, Synagogen Und Privathausern

Spatantike Stifter Im Heiligen Land: Darstellungen Und...

Author: Peter Baumann
ISBN: 9783895001031
Format: Hardback
$232.32

English summary: It was thanks to the initiative of well-to-do donors that representative public buildings could...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Pottery

Ancient Greek Pottery

Author: Michael Vickers
ISBN: 9781854441157
Format: Hardback
$60.59

The figurative scenes from Corinthian and Athenian decorated pottery depict Greek mythology, religion, warfare,...  Read More >>

Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times...

Author: Arnold Hauser ,  Jonathan Harris
ISBN: 9780415199452
Format: Paperback
$56.00

Hauser's Social History of Art is now reprinted in four paperback volumes. It provides a base for a study of art...  Read More >>

Celtic Borders

Celtic Borders

Author: Aidan Meehan
ISBN: 9780500280676
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Borders are a natural development of Celtic patterns, whereby an abstract or animal pattern may be repeated to fill...  Read More >>

The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Author: W. Stevenson Smith ,  William Kelly Simpson
ISBN: 9780300077476
Format: Paperback
$105.60

A wealth of art and architectural treasures survive from Ancient Egypt, a civilization that endured from the fourth...  Read More >>

The Final Sack of Nineveh: Discovery, Documentation and Destruction of Sennacherib's Palace at Nineveh, Iraq

The Final Sack of Nineveh: Discovery, Documentation...

Author: John Malcolm Russell
ISBN: 9780300074185
Format: Hardback
$198.00

In his palace at Nineveh, ancient Assyrian King Sennacherib immortalized his 701 BC campaign against Jerusalem...  Read More >>

Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 1 Later Han, Three Kingdoms and Western Chin in China and Bactria to Shan-shan in Central Asia

Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume...

Author: Marylin Martin Rhie
ISBN: 9789004112018
Format: Hardback
$1042.80

The earliest Buddhist art of China can only be understood when seen in relation to a wider area comprising Central...  Read More >>

The Complex Past of Pottery: Production, Circulation and Consumption of Mycenaean and Greek Pottery (16th to early 5th centuries BC)

The Complex Past of Pottery: Production, Circulation...

Author: J.P. Crielaard ,  V. Stissi
ISBN: 9789050633277
Format: Hardback
$322.08

Proceedings of the ARCHON International Conference, held in Amsterdam,1996.  Read More >>

Steinfachwerk in Pompeji: Bautechnik und Architektur

Steinfachwerk in Pompeji: Bautechnik und Architektur...

Author: K. Peterse ,  K Peterse
ISBN: 9789050631181
Format: Hardback
$340.56

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Ancient Art

Ancient Art

Author: Margaret Mayo ,  Heather S. Russell
ISBN: 9780917046513
Format: Paperback
$31.57

Sculptures and reliefs in marble and stone; vase-painting, wall painting, and painting on papyrus; jewelry of the...  Read More >>

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph

Author: Jas Elsner
ISBN: 9780192842015
Format: Paperback
$44.95

This book explores the art of the Roman Empire from the 'Second Sophist' to the era of late antiquity and the rise...  Read More >>

Wooden Furniture in Herculaneum: Form, Technique and Function

Wooden Furniture in Herculaneum: Form, Technique and...

Author: Stephan T.A.M. Mols ,  Stephan T a M Mols
ISBN: 9789050633178
Format: Hardback
$673.20

This study presents an overview of the wooden furniture that has come to light since the rediscovery of Herculaneum...  Read More >>

Augustine in Iconography: History and Legend

Augustine in Iconography: History and Legend

Author: Joseph C Schnaubelt ,  Frederi Van Fleteren
ISBN: 9780820422916
Format: Hardback
$224.27

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Oi Agioi Topoi: Greek language text

Oi Agioi Topoi: Greek language text

Author: Sotiris N Kadas
ISBN: 9789607254597
Format: Hardback
$59.51

This book is devoted to a category of manuscripts known as proskynetaria, which contain descriptions of the monuments...  Read More >>

Regional Schools in Hellenistic Sculpture

Regional Schools in Hellenistic Sculpture

Author: Olga Palagia ,  William D.E. Coulson
ISBN: 9781900188456
Format: Hardback
$181.13

New discoveries have prompted the revision of the old broad characterizations of Asianism and Eastern Greek Hellenistc...  Read More >>

The Sanctuary of Aphaia on Aigina in the Bronze Age

The Sanctuary of Aphaia on Aigina in the Bronze Age...

Author: Korinna Pilafidis-Williams
ISBN: 9783777480107
Format: Hardback
$211.07

The island of Aigina has often played a key role in the history of Greece. The well-known temple of Aphaia, having...  Read More >>

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