Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Ancient & Classical

The modern viewer is familiar with winged human figures in pictures, above all angels. Winged figures are also frequent on Greek vases. However, here, they must be seen in a very different cultural and, above all, religious context. What is their meaning in these contexts, and what does this tell us about how the pictures are to be understood overall? By trying to find answers to these questions, the books tells us a great deal about how the ancient Greeks saw the world and their role in it, and how they understood their relationship with the gods.

• An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical world
• Includes voices from such diverse fields as art history, classical studies, and archaeology and offers a diversity of views to the topic
• Features an innovative group of chapters dealing with the reception of Greek art from the Middle Ages to the present
• Includes chapters on Chronology and Topography, as well as Workshops and Technology
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Bilder sind keine bloen Objekte der Betrachtung. Zu allen Zeiten besitzen sie unmittelbar Einfluss auf Wahrnehmungs- und Handlungsweisen, insbesondere im Rahmen von Zeremonien. Im vorliegenden Band beleuchten unterschiedliche archaologische Disziplinen die Bezuge zwischen Bildwerken, Raumen und Handlungen an Fallbeispielen vergangener Kulturen ‑ darunter die Nasca-Palpa-Geoglyphen in Sudamerika, das steinzeitliche Gobekli Tepe, minoische und mykenische Palaste und griechische und romische Stadte. Ziel ist eine neue methodische Annaherung an die Wirkungsmacht von Bildwerken.

This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts. Origins and originality constitute a central theme, for during this period representational and narrative art, monumental sculpture and architecture, epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry, the city-state (polis), tyranny and early democracy, and natural philosophy were all born.

Die Entdeckung des menschlichen Korpers und seiner Rollen in Bildern Athens im 8. und 7. Jh. v. Chr. eroffnet uns einen zentralen Diskurshorizont dieser Gesellschaft. Eine Analyse der Bildthemen nimmt die wechselseitige Beeinflussung von Korperbild und sozialer Rolle in den Blick und kontextualisiert anschlieend die Korperbilder. Auf dieser Grundlage konnen die sich wandelnden Korper- und Rollenbilder zu einer Kulturgeschichte der fruhen Gesellschaft Athens verdichtet werden.

The Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2010, which was cohosted by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art and by the Asian Art Department William Sharpless Jackson Jr. Endowment, to examine the impact of early modern globalization on the arts of Spanish America. The museum assembled an international group of scholars specializing in the arts and history of Asia, Europe, and Latin America to present recent research, with topics ranging from discussions of architecture, painting, and sculpture to engravings, ceramics, clothing, and decorative arts...