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Book SynopsisThe archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings (well over 400) by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century.
Trade ReviewThis volume is a treasure-trove of beautiful drawings. It is more than a record of the finds from the ASCSA excavations from the 1930s; it is a way of seeing and observing the objects.[...]Over the decades these drawings have brought the Athenian Agora to vivid life--and will continue to do so through this collection.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of ContentsThe Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora (John Papadopoulos); Le style c'est l'homme: Piet de Jong as Artist (Anne Hooton); Topography and Architecture (John Camp); Neolithic through Middle Helladic Pottery (Walter Gauss); The Mycenaean Era in the Athenian Agora (Jessica Langenbucher); The Athenian Agora from the End of the Bronze Age through the Protoattic Period (John Papadopoulos); Archaic and Classical Odds and Ends (John Papadopoulos, with Susanne Ebbinghaus and James Sickinger); Athenian Black-Figured and Black-Glazed Pottery (Kathleen Lynch); Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery (Kathleen Lynch); Bronzes and Bronze Sculpture (Carol Mattusch); Ivory and Terracotta Sculpture (Carol Lawton); Hellenistic Pottery (Susan Rotroff); Terracotta and Faience Figurines (Susan Rotroff and Margaret Rothman); Roman Pottery, Lamps, and Glass (John Papadopoulos and Marianne Stern); Roman Mosaics (Barbara Tsakirgis); The Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Pottery (Camilla MacKay); Late Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Frescoes from Ayios Spyridon (Camilla MacKay); The Art of Labeling: Piet de Jong's Signatures and Various Labels on Watercolors (John Papadopoulos).
