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“catherine m keesling”

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  • Early Greek Portraiture

    Monuments and Histories

    by Catherine M. Keesling ...
    In this book, Catherine M. Keesling lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece. Surveying the subjects, motives and display contexts of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture, she demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in Greek culture is complex and without a single, unifying history. ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Cities Called Athens

    Studies Honoring John McK. Camp II

    by Wendy E. Closterman, Sean Hemingway, Laura Gawlinski, Catherine M. Keesling, Nancy Klein, Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, Mark Lawall, Kathleen Lynch, Camilla MacKay, Jeremy McInerney, Molly Richardson, Christina Salowey ...
    The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume is dedicated to John McK. Camp II, to acknowledge the extraordinary impact he has had on the ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

    by Philip Hardie ...
    “I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Art of the Devil

    Diabolic imagery, myth, and temptation in art

    by Arturo Graf, ...
    “The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration, depending on the society, representations of the underworld served to instruct believers and lead them ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medusa's Gaze

    The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese

    by Marina Belozerskaya ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    The Tazza Farnese is one of the most admired objects from classical antiquity. A libation bowl carved from banded agate, it features Medusa's head on its outside and, inside, an assembly of Egyptian gods. For more than two millennia, these radiant figures have mesmerized emperors and artists, popes and thieves, merchants and museum goers. In this, the first book-length account of this renowned ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Rome

    An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

    by Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof ...
    Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art

    Women, Agency, and the Trojan War

    by Anthony F. Mangieri ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Art
    The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not practice human sacrifice, so why then do the myths of virgin sacrifice appear persistently in art and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

    by Alexandre G. Mitchell ...
    This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre G. Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history, archaeology and classics with the anthropology of humour, and thereby establishing new ways of looking at art and visual humour in particular. ... Read more

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  • The Gentle Art of Faking

    by Riccardo Nobili ...
    In analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary counterfeiter; he must be studied amid his proper surroundings, and with the correct local colouring, so to speak, and his critic may perchance find some slight modicum of excuse for him. Beside him stand the Imitator, from whom the faker often originates, the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art of India

    Sacred traditions, temples, and timeless beauty

    by Vincent Arthur Smith ...
    If the ‘Palace of Love’, otherwise known as the Taj Mahal, is considered to be the emblem of Mughal Art, it is by no means the sole representative. Characterised by its elegance, splendor, and Persian and European influences, Mughal Art manifests itself equally well in architecture and painting as in decorative art. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture

    Edited by Jaś Elsner, Michel Meyer ...
    Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late antiquity. Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with examples and discussions drawn from visual material. This book mines this rich seam of theoretical ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98

    by Nathan T. Elkins ...
    At age 65, Nerva assumed the role of emperor of Rome; just sixteen months later, his reign ended with his death. Nerva's short reign robbed his regime of the opportunity for the emperor's imperial image to be defined in building or monumental art, leaving seemingly little for the art historian or archaeologist to consider. In view of this paucity, studies of Nerva primarily focus on the historical ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD