Synopsis: Now in its fifth edition, Greek Art and Archaeology charts the achievements of Greek art and civilization over 3000 years, from the abstract figures of the Cycladic islands and the mighty palaces of Crete to the baroque sculptures and complex architecture of the Hellen…
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 motif…
Modern scholars have traditionally described the emergence of the classical style in Greek sculpture as a steady march of progress, but this account assumes the impossible: that the early Greeks were working tirelessly toward a style of which they had no prior knowledge.