The Art of Ancient Greece and Rome : From the Rise of Greece to the Fall of Rome

by: Becatti, G.

Price: 65,00 EURO

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The art of ancient Greece and Rome; from the rise of Greece to the fall of Rome

Author: Giovanni Becatti

440 pages illustrations (some color) 30 cm

Contents:
From the decline of the art of the Mycenaeans to the beginning of Greek art in the Geometric period
The orientalizing trend and its diffusion
The birth of monumental sculpture and the arts of the Archaic period
The transition from the Archaic to the Severe style
The Severe style and its artistic conception
The Classical style and the achievement of an ideal organic naturalism
The art of the fourth century and the humanization of the Classical ideal
The art of the Hellenistic period
The contrast between Greek influence and the ideal of the Civis Romanus
Artistic trends under Sulla and Caesar and the formation of Roman art
Augustan and Julio-Claudian classicism
Naturalism and colorism in Flavian art
Greek teaching and Roman tradition in the Imperial art of the Trajanic period
The classicizing character of Hadrianic art
Classicism and colorism in the art of the Antonines
Expressionism in late second-century art and the beginning of late antique conceptions
Seven artistic splendor and the art of the late empire
Eastern and western aspects of art in the reign of Constantine
Popular and classicizing currents in the art of the fourth century
The new development of the historical relief in the East
Glossary

Translation of L'età classica

The Art of Ancient Greece and Rome : From the Rise of Greece to the Fall of Rome

by: Becatti, G.

• Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1697

Price: 65,00 EURO

1 copy in stock