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Pages: 372
Authors: Martin Robertson
Categories: Art
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In his new book, Professor Martin Robertson - author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981) - draws together the res
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Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: John H. Oakley
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-18 - Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that
Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Susan B. Matheson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Matheson provides the first comprehensive chronology for Polygnotos's own works, and then analyzes the distinctive, evolving Polygnotan style first isolated by
Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-painting
Language: en
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In this study of Athenian vases of the late Archaic period, Neer tracks the design and imagery of the symposium, with its elaborate riddles and poems and the de
Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour
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This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, emphasising works created in Athens and Boeotia.