On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In "Image and Myth," Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients.Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which...
On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In "Im...
