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• catalog abstract "The art and architecture of Greece and Rome lie at the heart of the classical tradition of the western world and their legacy is so familiar as to have become commonplace. The legacy may appear simple, but the development of classical art in antiquity was complex and remarkably swift. It ran from near abstraction in eighth-century BC Greece, through years of observation and learning from the arts of the non-Greek world to the east and in Egypt, to the brilliance of the. Classical revolution of the fifth century, which revealed attitudes and styles undreamt of by other cultures. After Alexander the Great this became the art of an empire, readily learned by Rome and further developed according to the Romans' special character and needs until it provided the idiom for the imaging of Christianity. In this book the story of this pageant of the arts over some 1500 years is told by five leading scholars. Their aim has been to demonstrate how. The arts served very different societies and patrons - tyrannies, democracies, empires; the roles and objectives of the artists; the way in which the classical style was disseminated far beyond the borders of the Greek and Roman world; but especially the splendour and quality of the arts themselves. And their method is to engage the interest of the reader by a rich succession of illustrations on to which the narrative is woven.".
• catalog alternative "Classical art.".
• catalog contributor b5437967.
• catalog created "1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
• catalog description "Classical revolution of the fifth century, which revealed attitudes and styles undreamt of by other cultures. After Alexander the Great this became the art of an empire, readily learned by Rome and further developed according to the Romans' special character and needs until it provided the idiom for the imaging of Christianity. In this book the story of this pageant of the arts over some 1500 years is told by five leading scholars. Their aim has been to demonstrate how.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-382) and index.".
• catalog description "Pre-classical Greece / Alan Johnston -- The Classical period / John Boardman -- The Hellenistic period / R.R.R. Smith -- Rome : the Republic and early empire / J.J. Pollitt -- The later Roman empire / Janet Huskinson -- The diffusion of classical art / John Boardman.".
• catalog description "The art and architecture of Greece and Rome lie at the heart of the classical tradition of the western world and their legacy is so familiar as to have become commonplace. The legacy may appear simple, but the development of classical art in antiquity was complex and remarkably swift. It ran from near abstraction in eighth-century BC Greece, through years of observation and learning from the arts of the non-Greek world to the east and in Egypt, to the brilliance of the.".
• catalog description "The arts served very different societies and patrons - tyrannies, democracies, empires; the roles and objectives of the artists; the way in which the classical style was disseminated far beyond the borders of the Greek and Roman world; but especially the splendour and quality of the arts themselves. And their method is to engage the interest of the reader by a rich succession of illustrations on to which the narrative is woven.".
• catalog extent "ix, 406 p., [28] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Oxford history of classical art.".
• catalog identifier "0198143869 (acid-free paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Oxford history of classical art.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog relation "Oxford history of classical art.".
• catalog subject "709/.38 20".
• catalog subject "Art, Classical.".
• catalog subject "N5610 .O84 1993".
• catalog subject "Visual arts History".
• catalog tableOfContents "Pre-classical Greece / Alan Johnston -- The Classical period / John Boardman -- The Hellenistic period / R.R.R. Smith -- Rome : the Republic and early empire / J.J. Pollitt -- The later Roman empire / Janet Huskinson -- The diffusion of classical art / John Boardman.".
• catalog title "Classical art.".
• catalog title "The Oxford history of classical art / edited by John Boardman.".
• catalog type "text".