Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Ancient & Classical

Essays by archaeologists Alexei Vranich and Leonardo Benitez (both University of Pennsylvania) describe what their excavation and astronomical research have...

Few regions of India have so excited the imagination as has the princely state of Mewar, which has been celebrated as the most heroic and illustrious of the Rajput states. Despite this, relatively little writing has been devoted to the innovative artists whose work helped to establish the state's reputation. Kingdom of the Sun: Indian Court and Village Art from the Princely State of Mewar addresses that deficiency by...

Korea is home to one of the longest and richest traditions in the world--yet it is one of the least known in the United States. San Francisco's Asian Art Museum was a pioneering advocate for bringing Korean art into this country. One of the first museums in the United States to have a gallery solely dedicated to Korean art, it has built up a remarkable collection of more than 750 art objects spanning millennia of Korean culture...

Focusing primarily on decorative and religious objects from the nineteenth century (along with some earlier and later works), the art book brings to light the lively, yet often strained, interchange between the regions of central and northern Thailand (Siam) and Burma.

Thailand and Burma are neighboring countries that are approximately the same size in area and population and have many cultural features in common. Yet...

Archeology still tends to be seen as a young science. In this two-volume history of archeology, the author fundamentally reshapes this notion and describes the emergence of archeological methods since antiquity. She also explains the origins of today's national and sub-disciplinary differences, using examples from pre-history and early history.

Volume 1 covers the theoretical foundations and the period from the classical age to 1630.

C. Cornelius Gallus, der erste romische Prafekt Agyptens, weihte 29 v. Chr. nach der Niederschlagung von Aufstanden und der Sicherung der agyptischen Grenze auf der Nilinsel Philae eine dreisprachige Stele. Das vorliegende Buch ist das Ergebnis eines Projekts von Agyptologen und Historikern zu diesem Denkmal. Der hieroglyphische, lateinische und griechische Text ist auf der Basis einer neuen Uberprufung des Originals ubersetzt und kommentiert. Damit liegt eine wichtige Quelle zum Beginn der romischen Herrschaft uber Agypten erstmals in einer zuverlassigen Gesamtausgabe vor.

Das dritte Bruno Snell-Symposion stellt die interdisziplinaren Beitrage zur Aktualisierung von Antike unter den Leitbegriff der Inszenierung. Uber den Bereich der Buhne hinaus steht dieser fur die Prasentation von Antike in jeweils unterschiedlichen historischen und kulturellen Kontexten und Darstellungsmedien. Ausgehend vom griechischen Theater spannen die zehn Beitrage des Bandes aus den Bereichen Klassische Philologie, Archaologie, Anglistik und Romanistik einen weiten Bogen bis in die Gegenwart.

This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early...

In The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period the polychrome patterning of words and phrases or of colors and shapes. In Roberts's view, the writer or artist of this period works as a jeweler, carefully setting compositional units in a geometric framework, consistently demonstrating a preference for effects of patterning over realistic representation, and for a unity situated at a higher level than the literal, historical sequence of...