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

Greek sculpture was among the first art to communicate human emotions and to offer a more realistic portrait of the individual. By working in new m...

A comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC. * An invaluable resource for scholars dealing wi...

The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pi...

Mosaic has been called painting for eternity, and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original conditio...

What ancient graffiti reveals about the everyday lives of Jews in the Greek and Roman worldFew direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs...

At the beginning of the 20th century, changes in taste and expectations of the public led private museums in Europe and North America to embark on ...

The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No god was more represented in ancient Rome than the phallic deity Pria...

Presented in very clear and accessible language, Roman Art offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roma...

Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of G...

The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powe...

Ravenna was one of the most important cities of late antique Europe. Between 400 and 751 AD, it was the residence of western Roman emperors, Ostrog...

This book examines Greek vase-paintings that depict humorous, burlesque, and irreverent images of Greek mythology and the gods. Many of the images ...

Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, ...

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were ma...

The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Ma...

This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in which this art was produc...

Spectators at the sides of narrative vase paintings have long been at the margins of scholarship, but a study of their appearance shows that they p...

Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated ...

What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ...

The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered...

In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China's Warring States Period (476221 BCE). Analy...

How do we interpret ancient art created before written texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation with ancient texts in order to int...

Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection between Roman Republican building practices and politics...

This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of compar...