Oxford University Press, 2012. — 312 p. — (Emblems of Antiquity). The Tazza Farnese is one of the most admired objects from classical antiquity. A libation bowl carved from banded agate, it features Medusa's head on its outside and, inside, an assembly of Egyptian gods. For more than two millennia, these radiant figures have mesmerized emperors and artists, popes and thieves,...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 192 p. The Shefton Collection in Newcastle upon Tyne contains a fine array of Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name from its founder Professor Brian Shefton (1919 – 2012). In spite of the importance of this collection it has not been widely published and remains something of a hidden gem. Brian Shefton was an insightful collector, as well as a...
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2020. — 306 p. First published in 2012, this catalogue presents fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the Getty Museum's collection - the second largest body of this material in the United States and one of the most important in the world. The ambers date from about 650 to 300 BC. The catalogue offers full description of the pieces,...
Walter de Gruyter, 2023. — 300 p. - Greek and Roman small size sculpture - The materials and techniques of Greek and Roman small size sculpture - The meanings, social functions, and ancient reception of small size sculpture in the Greek and Roman worlds Considerations about size and scale have always played a central role within Greek and Roman visual culture, deeply affecting...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 434 p. How does "decoration" work? What are the relations between 'figurative' and 'ornamental' modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. On the one hand, we argue, Greek and Roman...
Oxbow Books, 1998. — 303 p. — (Oxbow Monograph 90). Essays describing recent research and new discoveries of Hellenistic sculpture, based on papers presented at an international conference at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1996. Hellenistic Sculpture at Corinth. The state of the Question (Mary C. Sturgeon) The Enemy within: A Macedonian in PireausOlga...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 192 p. The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding of ancient society and culture, art and...
М.: Прогресс, 1984. — 385 с. Перевод с немецкого предисловие и редакция доктора исторических наук Г. Б. Федорова. Книга западногерманского археолога и искусствоведа - своеобразный энциклопедический справочник по античному портрету. Используя разные виды источников: исторических, археологических, этнографических, искусствоведческих и др., автор приводит краткие биографии 337...
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