Classical art : from Greece to Rome / Mary Beard and John Henderson.
Classical art : from Greece to Rome / Mary Beard and John Henderson.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
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G 2013/7669
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English
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298 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Painting Antiquity: Rediscovering Art -- Ch. 2. Moving Statues: Art in the Age of Imitation -- Ch. 3. Sensuality, Sexuality, and the Love of Art -- Ch. 4. Sizing up Power: Masters of Art -- Ch. 5. Facing up to Antiquity: Art to the Life.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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England
Date Published
2001.
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"The masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome. Generals, rulers, and artists seized, imitated, and rethought the glorious legacy of Greek painting an...
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Classical art : from Greece to Rome / Mary Beard and John Henderson.
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Oxford history of art.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-279) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF N709.38/39.
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G 2013/7669
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74Vv8X72ea0d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv8X72ea0d
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0192842374
9780192842374
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709.38
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991014218199702626
