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Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Nigel Spivey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Perhaps the most spectacular of all Greek vases, the Sarpedon krater depicts the body of Sarpedon, a hero of the Trojan War, being carried away to his homeland
The Sarpedon Krater
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Nigel Spivey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A tale of tomb raiders, legal battles, suspicious death, and a 2,500-year-old vase: “Spivey proves a diligent detective and an engaging storyteller.” —Tim
Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book offers insight into Greek conceptions of art, the artist, and artistic originality by examining artists' signatures in ancient Greece.
The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Guy Hedreen
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed i
How to Read Greek Vases
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Categories: Greece
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This handsomely illustrated volume is aimed at giving a broad audience deeper insight into the extensive collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museu