Arts & Architecture
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 43
ISBN: 9781607244363
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Earnest DeWald traces the development of the iconography of the Ascension from its earliest type through to the Gothic form, showing the manner in which the Eastern influence modified the types current in western art.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 47
ISBN: 9781607244431
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
The Ludovisi throne is a famous works of early Classical sculpture, a white marble chair covered with bas relief. This article compares the Ludovisi throne to a similar piece in Boston, arguing that the two works are companion pieces.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 34
ISBN: 9781607245018
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Luca della Robbia was a Florentine sculptor who is currently thought to have lived from 1400-1482. In this article Alan Marquand suggests a chronology for the Madonnas sculpted by Luca della Robbia.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 43
ISBN: 9781607244424
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Lester B. Holland, professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, addresses the puzzle of Doric entablature, suggesting that the persistence of the form of the entablature is due to its mimicry of earlier fortifications.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 37
ISBN: 9781607245001
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
A. L. Frothingham, one of the founding fathers of Art History as a discipline, answers the question “What is Art?
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 29
ISBN: 9781607244462
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Porter explains the sudden appearance of Romanesque sculpture in the 12th century AD by suggesting an origin in the sculpture of Lombardy.
