An extremely in-depth analysis of textual sources relating to the Greek concept of xoana, purported archaic wooden statues of gods. The book has ...
Continue Reading โThis book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, ...
Continue Reading โThis book, a companion volume to Professor Pollitt’s The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (published by the Press in 1983), presents a ...
Continue Reading โAlexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ...
Continue Reading โโBuilding in Wordsโ deals with the process of construction in Roman imperial literature from Vergil to the second century AD. The first part ...
Continue Reading โIn 16th- and 17th-century Spain, sculptors and painters combined their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of ...
Continue Reading โErwin Panofksy was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century. Panofsky modestly described his second annual Wimmer Lecture at Saint Vincent ...
Continue Reading โIn 1956 art historian Panofsky gave four incisive lectures at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University which were subsequently published ...
Continue Reading โWith contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the ...
Continue Reading โIn 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besanรงon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and ...
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