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Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
ISBN 13 | 9781444339802 |
Book Description | Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD. * Compares the evolution of Greek sculpture over the centuries to works of contemporaneous Mediterranean civilizations * Emphasizes looking closely at the stylistic features of Greek sculpture, illustrating these observations where possible with original works rather than copies * Places the remarkable progress of stylistic changes that took place in Greek sculpture within a broader social and historical context * Facilitates an understanding of why Greek monumen |
About the Author | Mark D. Fullerton is Professor of History of Art and Classics at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Archaistic Style in Roman Statuary (1990), Greek Art (2000), and co-editor of Ancient Art and its Historiography (2003). |
Language | English |
Author | Mark D. Fullerton |
Publication Date | 9-Dec-12 |
Number of Pages | 382 |
Greek Sculpture hardcover english - 9-Dec-12