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Greek Sculpture By John Boardman

Greek Sculpture by John Boardman


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The last in a series of Sir John Boardman's handbooks on Greek sculpture, covering the fourth century B.C. to the days of Alexander the Great. The innovations of the period are discussed, such as the female nude and portraiture and many important monuments such as the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

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Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Period and Sculpture in Colonies and Overseas by John Boardman

This is the last in the series of Sir John Boardman's acclaimed handbooks on Greek sculpture; a sequel to similar volumes on the Archaic and Classical periods. Here, the story continues through the fourth century B.C. to the days of Alexander the Great. The innovations of the period are discussed, such as the female nude and portraiture, along with many important monuments including the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and several of the great names such as Praxiteles and Lysippus who were lionized by later generations. The volume also presents Greek sculpture made in the colonies of Italy and Sicily from the Archaic period onwards, as well as that made for eastern, non-Greek rulers. A final section considers the role of Greek sculpture in moulding western taste to the present day.

About John Boardman

Sir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Late classical sculpture: architectural sculpture; names and attributions; gods and goddesses, men and women; portraiture; funerary sculpture; other reliefs. Part 2 The western Greeks: architectural sculpture; other sculpture. Part 3 Greek sculpture to east and south: anatolia; the levant and North America. Part 4 Ancient and antique: collecting and collections.

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GOR001540431
9780500202852
0500202850
Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Period and Sculpture in Colonies and Overseas by John Boardman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
19951009
248
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