History of art: ancient & classical art books

3450 books were found.

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic...

Author: Celia E. Schultz (Professor and Chair of Classical Studies, Professor and Chair of Classical Studies, Michigan University)
ISBN: 9780197601839
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, daughter of Sempronia and Bambalio,...  Read More >>

Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis: Art and Archaeology 2015–2018

Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis: Art and Archaeology...

Author: Elena Pischikova
ISBN: 9789774169649
Format: Hardback
$128.08

The third volume of reports on the excavations of noblemen’s tombs from the Kushite Period This is the third and...  Read More >>

Korinthisierende Figurliche Keramik Aus Etrurien

Korinthisierende Figurliche Keramik Aus Etrurien

Author: Szilvia Lakatos
ISBN: 9788891323484
Format: Paperback
$1441.44

Der Kernfrage dieser Publikation besteht darin, inwieweit sich die etrusko-korinthische Keramik durch eine gewisse...  Read More >>

Architettura Templare Italica in Epoca Ellenistica

Architettura Templare Italica in Epoca Ellenistica

Author: Dimosthenis Kosmopoulos
ISBN: 9788891322760
Format: Paperback
$1325.28

This work focuses on the main dynamics of temple architecture, a fundamental section of ancient Roman Republican...  Read More >>

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic...

Author: Celia E. Schultz (Professor and Chair of Classical Studies, Professor and Chair of Classical Studies, Michigan University)
ISBN: 9780190697136
Format: Hardback
$233.00

Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, daughter of Sempronia and Bambalio,...  Read More >>

Rubens - Picturing Antiquity

Rubens - Picturing Antiquity

Author: Davide Gasparotto ,  Jeffrey Spier
ISBN: 9781606066706
Format: Hardback
$72.95

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens....  Read More >>

Love, Fight, Feast: The Art of Storytelling in Japan

Love, Fight, Feast: The Art of Storytelling in Japan...

Author: Khanh Trinh
ISBN: 9783039420247
Format: Hardback
$116.44

A uniquely comprehensive survey of Japanese narrative art (Monogatari-e, or story pictures) across eight centuries,...  Read More >>

The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400 – 1420

The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City,...

Author: Hendrik Dey (Hunter College, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781108838535
Format: Hardback
$116.41

A wide-ranging synthesis of decades' worth of specialized research and remarkable archaeological discoveries, this...  Read More >>

Der Fischteller-Code: Marine Und Maritime Bilder Auf Gefassen Aus Der Antike Im Museum Florence Gottet

Der Fischteller-Code: Marine Und Maritime Bilder Auf...

Author: Eva Hofstetter
ISBN: 9783796540677
Format: Hardback
$137.28

Die eigenwillige keramische Form - Teller auf Fussen mit Hangerand und Nabel - und die fast ausschliessliche Bemalung...  Read More >>

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Terracotta Oil Lamps

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Terracotta Oil...

Author: Christopher S. Lightfoot
ISBN: 9781588397249
Format: Paperback
$134.95

This comprehensive catalogue of ancient terracotta oil lamps found in Cyprus situates the objects within larger...  Read More >>

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World...

Author: Mary Beard
ISBN: 9780691222363
Format: Hardback
$49.99

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians...  Read More >>

The Mosaics of Alexandria: Pavements of Greek and Roman Egypt

The Mosaics of Alexandria: Pavements of Greek and Roman...

Author: Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets ,  Colin Clement
ISBN: 9781649030740
Format: Hardback
$158.27

A beautifully illustrated study of mosaic art in Greco-Roman Egypt The art of the mosaic was developed by the Greeks,...  Read More >>

The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power

The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power

Author: Jennifer Awes Freeman
ISBN: 9781481315371
Format: Hardback
$64.00

Traces the visual and textual depictions of the Good Shepherd motif from its early iterations as a potent symbol...  Read More >>

Roman Roads: New Evidence - New Perspectives

Roman Roads: New Evidence - New Perspectives

Author: Anne Kolb
ISBN: 9783110763348
Format: Paperback
$51.39

This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical...  Read More >>

How to Read Greek Sculpture

How to Read Greek Sculpture

Author: Seán Hemingway
ISBN: 9781588397232
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Featuring decorative, religious, and utilitarian objects from the Geometric period to the Hellenistic Age, this...  Read More >>

Les Sculptures Antiques Du Musee d'Art Et d'Archeologie Du Pays de Laon - Die Antiken Skulpturen Des Musee d'Art Et d'Archeologie Du Pays de Laon

Les Sculptures Antiques Du Musee d'Art Et d'Archeologie...

Author: Karolina Kaderka ,  Paul Scheding
ISBN: 9783954905270
Format: Hardback
$388.08

English summary: For more than half a century, The Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the Archaeological...  Read More >>

AES Aeternum: Die Restaurierungsgeschichte Der Bronzen Aus Berlins Antikensammlung

AES Aeternum: Die Restaurierungsgeschichte Der Bronzen...

Author: Uwe Peltz
ISBN: 9783795436230
Format: Hardback
$372.24

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Five Egyptian Goddesses: Their Possible Beginnings, Actions, and Relationships in the Third Millennium BCE

Five Egyptian Goddesses: Their Possible Beginnings,...

Author: Five Egyptian Goddesses Susan Tower Hollis (State University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781780937151
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"""First published in Great Britain 2020""--Title page verso."  Read More >>

Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise: The Integration of Larinum into the Roman State

Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise: The Integration...

Author: Elizabeth C. Robinson (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Dallas Rome Program)
ISBN: 9780190641436
Format: Hardback
$233.00

Larinum, a pre-Roman town in the modern region of Molise, underwent a unique transition from independence to municipal...  Read More >>

Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs

Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman...

Author: Kimberly Cassibry (Associate Professor of Art, Associate Professor of Art, Wellesley College)
ISBN: 9780190921897
Format: Hardback
$233.00

In Destinations in Mind, Kimberly Cassibry asks how objects depicting different sites helped Romans understand their...  Read More >>

The Yoginis of Ranipur Jharial: Tantric Goddesses of Yore

The Yoginis of Ranipur Jharial: Tantric Goddesses of...

Author: Adyasha Das
ISBN: 9781645602101
Format: Paperback
$31.02

"""The Yoginis of Ranipur Jharial: Tantric Goddesses of Yore"" is a compilation of the author's research, readings...  Read More >>

Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World

Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from...

Author: Dr Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam University, Germany) ,  Anja Wieber (Independent Scholar, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350193697
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination...  Read More >>

Winckelmanns Bild Der Griechischen Kunst

Winckelmanns Bild Der Griechischen Kunst

Author: Adolf H Borbein
ISBN: 9783515131490
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Der besondere Rang und die Vorbildlichkeit der griechischen Kunst waren fur Winckelmann wie schon fur die alten...  Read More >>

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