History of Art: Ancient & Classical Art, BCE to c 500 CE

The travel accounts, drawings, and collections of Fr d ric Cailliaud were an important early contribution to the birth of the new scientific discip...

The Han dynasty was the first to forge a stable empire governing all of China. It ruled during a golden age that shaped much of the nation's cultur...

The Discobolus or discus-thrower is a marvellous classical piece of sculpture that over time has come to mean different things to different people....

Rewritten from cover to cover and updated to include the discoveries and new theories from the past decade and a half, this classic guide to the ar...

Keynote A sourcebook of hundreds of designs drawn from the work of artists and craftsmen throughout time, from the Pacific cultures of Oceania to t...

For eight centuries the presence and the influence of Franciss life and deeds have made themselves felt in the history of Christianity and in that ...

Hieroglyphic script was used by the inhabitants of Egypt from its introduction in about 3000 BC until its last recorded instance in AD 394. Althoug...

This stunning new volume features objects from the internationally renowned Bourne Collection of pre-Columbian art spanning assembled by John Bourn...

Since Roman times Praxiteles' masterpiece has been known as the Lizard-Slayer. Yet collectors, scholars, and students have all puzzled over the mea...

A completely new account of the archaeological and historical evidence relating to Delphi - one of the most important places in the ancient world. ...

The Admonitions scroll is an internationally recognized masterpiece of narrative painting and is arguably the earliest surviving Chinese painting. ...

From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the arc...

How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and t...

Throughout Egypts long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of language...

This volume is the second joint publication of the members of the American-Egyptian archaeological team South Asasif Conservation Project, working ...

The British Museum has the largest and finest collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan outside of those countries. Packed with informatio...

The use of pictures to communicate a story has a long tradition in Japanese culture that dates back more than a thousand years. Such narrative illu...

The ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., drew international attention when excavat...

In ancient Greece, funerary monuments were visual expressions of mourning that provided the opportunity for the living to commemorate and communica...

This handsomely illustrated volume is the second in a series of publications aimed at giving a broad audience deeper insight into the extensive col...