What did the ancient Greeks think about their own art? J.J. Pollitt attempts to answer this question by studying the critical terminology of the ancient Greeks--the terms they used to describe and evaluate sculpture, painting, and architecture. Although Greeks and Romans with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests--including artists, philosophers, rhetoricians, historians, and guidebook writers--wrote about art in antiquity, very few of their works have survived. Mr. Pollitt has therefore had to draw largely on works of authors who, while discussing some other subject, make...
What did the ancient Greeks think about their own art? J.J. Pollitt attempts to answer this question by studying the critical terminology of the ancie...
This book consists of a comprehensive collection of ancient literary evidence on Roman art and artists, assembled together in translation and provided with linking passages to set the historical context. Its purpose is to make this evidence accessible to students who are not specialists in the classical languages or classical archaeology. The surviving evidence is limited in extent but extremely precious in quality. This volume makes virtually all of it available between one set of covers.
This book consists of a comprehensive collection of ancient literary evidence on Roman art and artists, assembled together in translation and provided...
This book is a companion volume to Professor Pollitt's The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (CUP, 1983). An authoritative and reliable sourcebook, The Art of Ancient Greece contains a comprehensive collection in translation of ancient literary evidence relating to Greek sculpture, painting, architecture, and the decorative arts. The material is presented in a way which makes this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology. Accompanying the author's translations of a wide selection of Greek and Latin texts is an...
This book is a companion volume to Professor Pollitt's The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (CUP, 1983). An authoritative and reliable sourcebook, T...
Olga Palagia J. J. Pollitt Yale University Departmen
The aim of this book is to identify and assess the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors. By using the most recent archaeological evidence and reevaluating both the ancient literary sources and earlier scholarly literature, the international group of authors whose essays appear here expands our understanding of the role of personal styles in ancient art.
The aim of this book is to identify and assess the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors. By using the most recent archaeologic...
