The World of Ancient Art by John Boardman

The World of Ancient Art by John Boardman

This is an innovative exploration of the arts of antiquity, beginning with the earliest European cave paintings and continuing right up to the coming of Christianity and Buddhism in the Old World and the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World.

'An eloquently argued, richly illustrated and exhilaratingly wide-ranging essay, as alive to the beauty as to the significance of art' - The Scotsman
'Insightful texts … stunning illustrations … a fascinating insight into an often somewhat neglected aspect of ancient history' - Reference Reviews

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.

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ISBN 13	9780500238271
ISBN 10	0500238278
Title	The World of Ancient Art
Author	John Boardman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year published	2006-06-19
Number of pages	408
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