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

For the first time in 3,300 years, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Papyrus of Ani is showcased in its entirety i...

Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are also building blocks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. ...

In 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the kings mummy,...

Ravenna has eight World Heritages sites--churches, baptisteries, chapels and monuments dating from the fifth and sixth centuries AD which are renow...

The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depict...

All Art is Political: Writings on Performative Art is a collection of recent conversations and writings by Glasgow based writer and curator Sarah L...

A strange thing happened to Roman sarcophagi in the third century: their Greek mythic imagery vanished. Since the beginning of their production a ...

Ranging from the Egyptians to the late Roman Empire, Ancient Peoples In Their Own Words celebrates the excitement and importance of historical prim...

A major exploration of one of the most important early artistic cultures of the ancient Americas Considered the mother culture of Mesoamerica, th...

Heroes: Principles of African Greatness is a multi-layered project that relays the stories of the key heroic principles and people in Africas arts ...

A sequel to Ships of the Silk Road, this is an informed and beautifully illustrated treatment of flying men in Chinese jade. Jade figurines depict...

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. ...