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Title:
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CLASSICAL ART
FROM GREECE TO ROME |
By: |
Mary Beard, John Henderson |
Format: |
Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0192842374 |
ISBN 13: |
9780192842374 |
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Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
26 April, 2001 |
Series: |
Oxford History of Art |
Pages: |
304 |
Description: |
This exciting new look at Classical art starts with the excavation of the buried city of Pompeii, and investigates the grandiose monuments of ancient tyrants, and the sensual beauty of Apollo and Venus. Concluding with that most influential invention of all, the human portrait, it highlights the re-discovery of Classical art in the modern world, from the treasure hunts of Renaissance Rome to scientific retrieval in the twenty-first century. |
Synopsis: |
The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome. Generals, rulers, and artists seized, imitated, and re-thought the stunning legacy of Greek painting and sculpture, culminating in the greatest art-collector the world had ever seen, the Roman emperor, Hadrian. This exciting new look at Classical art starts with the excavation of the buried city of Pompeii, and investigates the grandiose monuments of ancient tyrants, and the sensual beauty of Apollo and Venus. Concluding with that most influential invention of all, the human portrait, it highlights the re-discovery of Classical art in the modern world, from the treasure hunts of Renaissance Rome to scientific retrieval in the twenty-first century. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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