Arts & Architecture
Format: Paperback
Pages: 76
ISBN: 9781607244967
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
This series of papers shows that a group of monuments erected by the French Cistercian monks, and here for the first time fully described and illustrated, were the earliest Italian buildings using transitional-Gothic architecture.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 25
ISBN: 9781607244622
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Kate Elderkin presents an enjoyable overview not only of the nature of children's dolls in Antiquity, but the customs surrounding their use and subsequent dedication when the owner reached adulthood.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 29
ISBN: 9781607245254
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Arthur Frothingham, one of the founding fathers of Art History, here discusses the problem of the Gorgon in ancient Greek art by arguing that Medusa represents a lost prehistoric goddess.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 33
ISBN: 9781607244608
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Holland uses sculpture to suggest that these ornaments were meant to be worn in womens' headdresses as a development from feathered crowns worn in earlier times and possibly connected to the iconography of the sphinx.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 60
ISBN: 9781607244844
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
A. J. Frothingham discusses Byzantine influences in the art and architecture of medieval Rome, bringing to light the influence of Byzantium on Italy beyond the fall of the Western empire.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 46
ISBN: 9781607244936
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
In this series, A. J. Frothingham Jr.
reviews previously unstudied papal buildings, suggesting new members of the schools of Laurentius and Paulus and linking specific artists to various buildings.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 53
ISBN: 9781607244516
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Arthur Kingsley Porter here traces the roots of Renaissance sculpture to the smaller decorative sculptures found on the outside of churches and other buildings beginning around the turn of the first millennium A.D.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 36
ISBN: 9781607244905
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Rufus B. Richardson, the director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens at the time of this paper, publishes the discovery of the fountain of Pirene in Corinth.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 35
ISBN: 9781607245124
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
In this paper noted librarian, scholar, and philanthropist William Warner Bishop examines and classifies the existing church mosaics of Rome and the immediate vicinity.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 30
ISBN: 9781607244554
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
This paper discusses the tales of Heracles as told in vase-paintings, which often represent earlier or more popular versions of the stories than those preserved in upper-class literature.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9781607244370
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
In this ambitious article Eisen creates a chronology of eye beads (glass beads decorated with eye-like spots) from sites in Europe, the Near East, and North Africa.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9781607245148
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Ida Thallon dates the work of Demophon, a famous sculptor whose surviving work is now agreed to be an example of innovative second-century BC Greek art.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9781607244530
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
In this paper Margaret Waits offers an explanation for the pervasive and enigmatic symbol of the double-axe in Mycenaean culture with special reference to the religions of Greece and Asia Minor
Format: Paperback
Pages: 44
ISBN: 9781607245230
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
William Dinsmoor, one of the experts who directed the first reconstruction of the Athenian Acropolis, here sets out the process by which he was able to piece the gables of the Propylaia together from surviving fragments.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 31
ISBN: 9781607245193
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
This paper shows the process by which the statue-group of Daochos in Delphi was reconstructed and discusses its position within the immediate area of its installation.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 39
ISBN: 9781607244899
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
In this article, the famous Assyriologist William Ward discusses the gods of the Hittites as the appear in in art as well as foreign deities who commonly appear alongside them.
