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Book Review
The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece. By Robin Osborne
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 519-520
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Reviewer:
Rodriguez Perez, Diana (Rodriguez Perez, Diana)
Subjects
dates:
0499-0400 BC / 0599-0500 BC
media:
Vase paintings
places:
Athens
subjects:
Classical / Greek iconography / Formal analysis / Cultural history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece By Robin Osborne. | :
Book Review
Chinese Ivory Carvings: The Sir Victor Sassoon Collection. By Rose Kerr, Phillip Allen and Shi Ching-fei
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 869-870
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Reviewer:
Pearce, Nick (Pearce, Nick)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Sassoon, Victor / Lucas, S. E.
dates:
2000–1500 BC / 1500-1000 BC / 1000–500 BC / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0099 / 0100-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Ivories
places:
China / Guangdong / Guangzhou / Shanghai / Great Britain
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Sassoon Collection / Gifts / Collectors / Merchants / Vessels / Chinese export / Chinese sculpture / Carvings
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Brush pot carved with a continuous landscape design. Qing dynasty, 18th century. Ivory, height 19.5 cm. (Sir Victor Sassoon Collection).
Book Review
Sicily. Art and Invention between Greece and Rome, C.L. Lyons, M. Bennett and C. Marconi, eds., with A. Sofroniew
12/2014 | 1341 | 156
Pages: 817-818
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Reviewer:
Treuherz, Julian (Treuherz, Julian)
Subjects
dates:
0799-0700 BC / 0699-0600 BC / 0599-0500 BC / 0499-0400 BC
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States / Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
places:
Sicily
subjects:
Greek (ancient) sculpture / Classical / Hellenistic / Exhibitions / Essays / Sicilian
subjects:
Cultural history / Influence / Greek (ancient) architecture / Theatre (discipline) / Art / Coins
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
28. The Mozia charioteer, c. 470-460 BC (Museo G. Whitaker, Mozia)
Exhibition Review
Twilight of the Pharaohs. Paris
06/2012 | 1311 | 154
Pages: 439-441
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Reviewer:
Hardwick, Tom (Hardwick, Tom)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 0099-0001 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0399-0300 BC / 0499-0400 BC / 0599-0500 BC / 0699-0600 BC / 0799-0700 BC / 0899-0800 BC / 0999-0900 BC
dates:
1000-1099 BC
museums and institutions:
Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France
places:
Paris / France
print:
Egyptian sculpture
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Egyptian sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Le Crépuscule des Pharaons: Chefs-d’œuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes | institution: Musée Jacquemart-André
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
77. Head of a man. Egypt, 30th Dynasty – Ptolemaic period, c.400–300 BC. Greywacke, 23 cm. high. (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
78. Bust of a man wearing a non-Egyptian gorget. Egypt, 27th Dynasty, c.525–404 BC. Basalt, 36.5 cm. high. (Museo Egizio, Florence; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
79. Head of a man. Catalogued and displayed as Egypt, 27th Dynasty, c.525–404 BC. Limestone, 11.4 cm. high. (Private collection; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Treasures from Macedon. Oxford
08/2011 | 1301 | 153
Pages: 554-555
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Reviewer:
Elsner, Jas (Elsner, Jas)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Oxford / England
print:
Macedonian
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Macedonian School / Macedonian / Greek (ancient) / Greek (ancient) art / Gold / Hellenistic / Antiquities / Classical / Sculpture / Greek (ancient) sculpture / Ceramics / Funerary art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy | institution: Ashmolean Museum
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
31. Lekythoi (oil containers). Athenian, c.430–20 BC. White ground on clay, dimensions variable (tallest, approx. 50 cm. high). (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
32. Oak-leaf and acorn wreath. Aegae, c.310 BC. Gold, diameter 16.5 cm. (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Western art unattributed:
33. Clay bust. Aegae, c.480 BC. Clay, approx. 30 cm. high. (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aegae, Vergina; exh. Ashmolean Mus­eum, Oxford).
Book Review
Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting
12/2009 | 1281 | 151
Pages: 840
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Reviewer:
Nethersole, Scott (Nethersole, Scott)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1499 / 0499-0400 BC
places:
Europe / Greece
places:
Western Europe
print:
Western painting
subjects:
Art history / Art theory / Historical context / Historicism / Naturalism / Optics / Visual culture / Paintings / Antiquity / European
subjects:
Greek (ancient) art / Philosophy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting | author: Summers, David
Publication Received
Greek Architecture
03/1999 | 1152 | 141
Pages: 184
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Reviewer:
Campbell, Ian (I. C.) (Campbell, Ian (I. C.))
Subjects
dates:
0599-0500 BC / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0099
places:
Greece
subjects:
Architecture / Greek (ancient) / Architectural history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Greek Architecture | author: Lawrence, A. W. , author: Tomlinson, R. A.
Book Review
The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens
02/1994 | 1091 | 136
Pages: 113
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Reviewer:
Boardman, John (Boardman, John; Boardman, J.)
Subjects
dates:
0499-0400 BC
places:
Greece / Athens
subjects:
Vases / Paintings / Greek (ancient) / Classical
subjects:
Vase paintings / Greek (ancient) painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens | author: Robertson, Martin
Book Review
Greek Sculpture, the Classical Period [and: the Parthenon and its Sculptures]
06/1987 | 1011 | 129
Pages: 400
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Reviewer:
Barron, John P. (Barron, John P.)
Subjects
buildings:
Parthenon, Athens, Greece
dates:
0499-0400 BC
places:
Greece
subjects:
Greek (ancient) sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Greek Sculpture, the Classical Period; the Parthenon and its Sculptures | author: Boardman, John , author: Boardman, John , author: Finn, David
Article
Greek and Roman Sculpture from the Northern Coasts of the Black Sea (Chiefly Russia)
12/1977 | 897 | 119
Pages: 810-818
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Author:
Vermeule, Cornelius C. (Vermeule, Cornelius C.; III, Cornelius C. Vermeule,; Vermeule, Cornelius)
Subjects
artists:
Lysippos
dates:
0399-0300 BC
dates:
0499-0400 BC
places:
Russia
places:
Italy
subjects:
Greco-Roman / Roman (ancient) sculpture
subjects:
Greek (ancient) sculpture
subjects:
Hellenistic / Funerary structures
subjects:
Formal analysis
subjects:
Portraits / Classical mythology
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Title Page of L. E. Stephani (1854, 1892). Various Statues and Reliefs. These and the Following Sculptures Are in Leningrad, Hermitage. Most Are Mentioned in This Study.
Western art unattributed:
10. Herm Head of Fifth-Century B. C. Type. From Chersonesus.
Western art unattributed:
11. Draped Female, Probably a Portrait-Statue. From Panticapaeum.
Western art unattributed:
12. Pan, Graeco-Roman. From Panticapaeum.
Western art unattributed:
13. Lysippic Weary Herakles. From Panticapaeum.
Western art unattributed:
14. Terminal Figure of Herakles. From Panticapaeum.
Western art unattributed:
3. Ideal Head c.425 to 400 B. C. From Olbia.
Western art unattributed:
4. Profile View of the Head in Fig.3. [Ideal Head c.425 to 400 B. C. From Olbia.]
Western art unattributed:
5. Skopasian 'Herakles'. From Panticapaeum.
Western art unattributed:
6. Kybele, after Agorakritos. From Panticapaeum.
Western art unattributed:
7. Goddess or Ideal Female. From Panticapaeum.
Western art unattributed:
8. 'Poseidon' Post-Pergamene Style. From Olbia.
Western art unattributed:
9. 'Seagod', Pergamene Style. From Panticapaeum.
Western art unattributed:
A. Classical Settlements around the Black Sea.
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