Greek Sculpture
Greek Sculpture
- ISBN 13:
9781444339802
- ISBN 10:
144433980X
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/02/2016
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
- Compares the evolution of Greek sculpture over the centuries to works of contemporaneous Mediterranean civilizations
- Emphasizes looking closely at the stylistic features of Greek sculpture, illustrating these observations where possible with original works rather than copies
- Places the remarkable progress of stylistic changes that took place in Greek sculpture within a broader social and historical context
- Facilitates an understanding of why Greek monuments look the way they do and what ideas they were capable of expressing
- Focuses on the most recent interpretations of Greek sculptural works while considering the fragile and fragmentary evidence uncovered