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.
Publisher: Oxford University PressISBN: 9780192842374Weight: 560 gDimensions: 237 x 167 x 15 mm
Mary Beard
Arguably Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University and classics editor of the TLS. Amongst her best known publications are SPQR,Pompeii (accompanying the BBC television series of the same name),Confronting the Classics and It's a Don's Life (based on her regular column for The Times.
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