Classical art : a life history from antiquity to the present /

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How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrate...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vout, Caroline (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Art, Classical > Appreciation > History.
Sculpture, Classical > Appreciation > History.
Classical antiquities > Appreciation > History.
Art and society > History.
Art antique > Appréciation > Histoire.
Antiquités gréco-romaines > Appréciation > Histoire.
Art et société > Histoire.
ART > History > General.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Ancient & Classical.
Art and society.
Sculpture, Classical > Appreciation.
Rezeption
Kunsthandel
Kunst
Antike
Art and Design.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the agenda, or putting the art into heritage
  • Finding the classical in Hellenistic Greece
  • Making Greek culture Roman culture
  • Roman art, the building blocks of empire
  • Reviving antiquity in Renaissance Italy
  • European court-society and the shaping of the canon
  • 'Neo-classicisms' and the English country house
  • Seeing anew in the nineteenth century
  • The death of classical art?
  • And the moral of the story.

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