Ancient Greece Art, Architecture, and History

Name: Ancient Greece Art, Architecture, and History
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ISBN: 9780892366958

ISBN-10: 0892366958

ISBN-13: 9780892366958

Edition: 2003

Authors: Marina Belozerskaya, Kenneth Lapatin, Stefano Zuffi, Marina Belozerskaya, Kenneth Lapatin

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Since antiquity, the achievements of the Greeks in art and architecture have elicited great admiration. From the Parthenon and the other temples on the Acropolis of Athens to the fabled palace of King Minos at Knossos on Crete to the walled city of Mycenae-home of the Trojan leader Agamemnon-Greek art and architecture continue to this day to fascinate visitors to Greece and influence Western aesthetics. This informative handbook traces Greek art and architecture from the third millennium to the first century B.C. Belozerskaya and Lapatin relate the rich development of styles, techniques, and motifs to the history of this period. The culmination of these developments in architecture,…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.38" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Marina Belozerskaya is the author of The Medici Giraffe: And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power, The Arts of Tuscany from the Etruscans to Ferragamo, and Luxury Arts of the Renaissance. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.

Kenneth D. S. Lapatin studied Greek art and archaeology at Berkeley and Oxford and in Athens as a Fulbright Scholar. Currently president of the Boston society of the Archaeological Institute of America, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Marina Belozerskaya, a writer of historical nonfiction.



What Is Greek Art?


2600-1100 B.C.: Between Myth and Reality: Minoans and Mycenaeans


Minoan Crete


The Palace of Knossos


The Variety of Materials and Forms


War and Trade: The Mycenaean World


Mycenae: The Mighty Fortress


Mycenae, Rich in Gold


1100-610 B.C.: From Geometric to Orientalizing


Conceptualizing the World


Ordering the Universe


Aristocratic Values


The Orientalizing Period


610-480 B.C.: Archaic Art


The Greek Polis


The Athenian Akropolis before the Persian Destruction


Kouroi


Korai


The Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi


Magna Graecia: Greek Colonies in the West, Paestum


Selinus


Athenian Vase-Painting


480-450 B.C.: The Early Classical Period


Changes in Art and Society in the Early Classical Period


Persian Wars


The Doric Temple in the Early Classical Period


Pediments of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia


Explorations of the Human Body in Early Classical Sculpture


Western Greeks in the Early Classical Period


Greek Painting: The Tomb of the Diver at Paestum


The Greek Ideal of Beauty


450-323 B.C.: The Classical Period


Athens in the Age of Perikles


The Akropolis of Athens


The Parthenon Pediments


The Parthenon Frieze and Metopes


The Doric Temple in the Classical Period


Lost Masterpieces


Greek Theater


The Evolution of Classical Sculpture


The Kerameikos Cemetery in Athens


The Maussolleion at Halikarnassos


Skopas and Praxiteles


Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidauros


Urban Planning: Priene


New Architectural Forms


Greek Culture in the East


323-31 B.C.: Art in the Hellenistic Age


Alexander the Great and the Birth of the Hellenistic Age


Lysippos


Hellenistic Kingships


Urban Planning as a Magnificent Setting


The Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon


Urban Planning in the Service of Well-Being


The Great Temples of Asia Minor


Hellenism and the East: Nemrud Dagh


Hellenistic Portraiture In Search of the Individual


New Genres of Art


The Female Nude


Genre Scenes in Late Hellenistic Art


Odysseus at Sperlonga


The Laokoon



Map of Cited Places



Timeline



Index of Names



Index of Myths and Gods



Major Collections of Greek Art