The Oxford Illustrated History of Classical Art by John Boardman

The Oxford Illustrated History of Classical Art by John Boardman

The art and architecture of Greece and Rome lie at the heart of the classical tradition of the western world and their legacy is so familiar as to have become commonplace. The legacy may appear simple, but the development of classical art in antiquity was complex and remarkably swift. It ran from near abstraction in 8th-century BC Greece, through years of observation and learning from the arts of the non-Greek world to the east and in Egypt, to the brilliance of the classical revolution of the 5th century, which revealed attitudes and styles undreamt of by other cultures. After Alexander the Great this became the art of an empire, readily learned by Rome and further developed according to the Romans' special character and needs until it provided the idiom for the imaging of Christianity. In this book the story of this pageant of the arts over some 1500 years is told by five leading scholars.

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ISBN 13	9780192854438
ISBN 10	0192854437
Title	The Oxford Illustrated History of Classical Art
Author	John Boardman
Series	Oxford Illustrated Histories Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2001-03-10
Number of pages	416
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