Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Ancient & Classical

Welche Veranderungen gingen mit der romischen Herrschaft am unteren Lauf des Rheins einher? Welche Lebensbereiche blieben von der Romanisierung unberuhrt? Welche Kontinuitaten, welche Bruche lassen sich in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur der Germania inferior feststellen? Geschichtliche Ubergange wie die Anfangs- und die Endphase der romischen Herrschaft sind fur die historischen Wissenschaften Phanomene von besonderer Aussagekraft:

So klein die Provinz auch war, weist die Germania inferior doch keine einheitliche Entwicklung auf. Fur Stadt und Land, Nord und Sud und...

This first complete published catalogue of one of the most important classical sculpture collections in the United States includes 154 works from Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor, North Africa, Roman Syria and Palestine, Egypt, and Babylonia, ranging in date from the late seventh century B.C. to the fourth century A.D.

Each piece receives a complete description with measurements and report of condition, a list of the previous published sources, and a commentary reflecting the most recent scholarship, along with extensive photographic documentation. Various audiences will appreciate the...

The rich and evocative bas-reliefs of Angkor Wat have captured the imagination of travelers, artists, and scholars for centuries. Built for the Khmer king Suryavarman II in the twelfth century, the enormous temple complex consists of an outer enclosure surrounded by a moat, with three further concentric rectangular enclosures inside it. The bas-reliefs featured in this book are carved on the walls of the third enclosure.

Jaroslav Poncar has brilliantly captured the detail of these huge reliefs, measuring more than two meters in height and five hundred meters in overall length, using...

Dumbarton Oaks houses the extraordinary art collection begun by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. In this book the museum publishes the specialist collections in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, along with examples from the Blisses superb European collection, for the first time.

When Robert Bliss recalled handling a jade Olmec figurine in 1913, he said, That day, the collector s microbe took root in it must be confessed very fertile soil. The Blisses passion for art bore fruit in a remarkably diverse collection: Flemish tapestries, Renaissance furniture, and paintings by the likes of El...

According to a historian of the time, the huge influx of antiquities into the British Museum in the nineteenth century was the result of 'English pertinacity and Oriental cunning'. This book explores the fascinating stories behind the collection of antiquities from the Ottoman Empire between 1840 and 1880. The men who led these collecting expeditions published journals detailing their adventures as well as their archaeologial labours, and this did much to feed Victorian interest in archaeology and the Orient.It was not easy to remove the often monumental, heavy, yet precious and fragile...