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Yale Classical Studies eBook Series

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  • Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art

    Edited by Jas' Elsner, Milette Gaifman, Nathaniel B. Jones ...
    Series Book 40 - Yale Classical Studies
    The artistic category of relief has long dominated scholarly discussions of ancient Greco-Roman art for good reason: images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the rise of the Greek city-state through to the Christian era. They are witnessed in public and private contexts; terracotta, bronze, and stone media; techniques as varied as incision, modelling, or repoussé; and scales from the ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

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  • Art

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Laurie Schneider Adams ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A beautifully crafted overview of Western artistic tradition OR An exhilarating tour through Western artistic traditionArt has existed for as long as humankind, but defining it is famously difficult. In this whirlwind tour spanning from prehistory up to the present day and beyond, Laurie Schneider Adams explores how art, and our views on it, have evolved. Delving into fascinating issues such as ... Read more

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • Art and Illusion

    A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation - Millennium Edition

    by E. H. Gombrich ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century’s most important art historiansE. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most influential art historians of the twentieth century, and Art and Illusion is generally agreed to be his most important book. Bridging science and the humanities, this classic work examines the history and psychology of pictorial ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

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  • Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Edited by Cecilie Brøns, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series Book 31 - Ancient Textiles
    Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a large and very important role in the ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries. In ... Read more

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  • Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    Edited by Mary Harlow, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series series Textile Research Series
    Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from ... Read more

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  • Greek Art: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Ioannis Mylonopoulos ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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  • Pompeii

    Art, Industry and Infrastructure

    Edited by Kevin Cole, Miko Flohr, Eric Poehler ...
    Even after more than 250 years since its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure. The discussions of domestic art in this book, a perennial topic for Pompeian scholars, ... Read more

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  • Death and Changing Rituals

    Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices

    Edited by J. Rasmus Brandt, Håkon Roland, Marina Prusac ...
    Series series Studies in Funerary Archaeology
    The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to ... Read more

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  • The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture

    An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple

    by Jean M. Evans ...
    This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived. Chronicling the intellectual history of ancient Near Eastern art history and archaeology at the ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Roman Art

    Edited by Barbara E. Borg ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art.Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman artContributions from distinguished scholars with unrivalled expertise covering a broad range of international approachesFocuses on the socio-historical aspects of Roman art, covering several ... Read more

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