History of art: ancient & classical art books

This book examines Nerva's imperial coin iconography in concert with contemporary laudatory texts that praise the...  Read More >>

In this compelling study, Rebekah Lee explores the process and consequences of settlement through the everyday...  Read More >>

This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his ascent of Mount Etna in 1493, and...  Read More >>

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder uber die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on...  Read More >>

... Phidias naquit donc dès l'aurore du grand siècle, un ou deux ans après Sophocle, au moment où Eschyle faisait...  Read More >>

While there are many books that teach the ""how-to"" of photography, Science for the Curious Photographer is a book...  Read More >>

Toutes les époques se plaignent de ne pas ressembler à l'époque qui les précède, et les fils, se comparant avec...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

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Das Heilige Tor, das nur 42 m vom grossten Stadttor Athens, dem Dipylon, entfernt ist, gehort, wie dieses, zum Typus...  Read More >>

English summary: The groundwork for the development of Western figurative art was laid out during the formation...  Read More >>

-Set apart from the descriptive guides that exist on the subject, this book analyzes the meaning of the Qutb Complex's...  Read More >>

This provocative volume explores four millennia of Chinese and Egyptian culture in parallel, uncovering the remarkable...  Read More >>

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The story of the Four Masters tells of a time when fierce warriors swept across the steppes and mountains of Eurasia,...  Read More >>

本書共分四卷，是蔣氏家屬門生攜手合作，內容詳實蒐羅最新、最完整的《蔣復璁文集》，由美商漢世紀域外漢學基金（Sinology Memory Fund）贊助出版。 蔣復璁（1898年11月12日－1990年9月21日），曾任台灣故宮博物院院長、中央圖書館館長等，積極參與域外漢學古籍善本的文物保存與保護工作，全球文博界譽為「中華文化瑰寶的守護者」。...  Read More >>

Colleagues, friends and students pay tribute to Brian Hartley's contribution to Roman archaeology and particularly...  Read More >>

Discusses the wall paintings from the West House at Mycenae in relation to their context within the building. In...  Read More >>

The second of three volumes of reports on the excavations of noblemen's tombs from a little-known period of ancient...  Read More >>

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, On the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts The Epic of Gilgamesh...  Read More >>

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching...  Read More >>

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first...  Read More >>