Marbles and bronzes in the British Museum
Author | : British Museum (London) |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : British Museum (London) |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : A. H. Smith |
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Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Ian Dennis Jenkins |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780674026926 |
The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photographs focus on the pediment sculptures that filled the triangular gables at each end of the temple; the metopes that crowned the architrave surmounting the outer columns; and the frieze that ran around the four sides of the building, inside the colonnade. Comparative images, showing the sculptures in full and fine detail, bring out particular features of design and help to contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book further reflects on how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. In particular, Jenkins expands on the irony of our intimate knowledge and appreciation of the sculptures--a relationship far more intense than that experienced by their ancient, intended spectators--as they have been transformed from architectural ornaments into objects of art.
Author | : H. B. Walters |
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Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : British Museum |
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Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Museums |
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Author | : British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Marble sculpture, Classical |
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Author | : British museum |
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Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Tiffany Jenkins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2018-02-08 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : 0198817185 |
For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York - to name but a few - can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. However, in the opinion of most people, many of these items are looted property and should be returned immediately. In 'Keeping Their Marbles', Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of how the West came to acquire these treasures. Originally published: 2016.
Author | : British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Marble sculpture, Greek |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1861 |
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