Description
Book SynopsisThis innovative look at ancient Greek painting combines the most complete survey to date of the painted monuments of classical antiquity with an in-depth exploration of the ways in which the people of Ancient Greece appreciated this demanding art.
Plantzos looks at techniques, styles, themes and masters as well as their admirers, clients, and critics. At the same time, he discusses recent breakthroughs in archaeology, cultural studies, and art history. The book is unique in its reflections of new, multidisciplinary approaches to the material record which it combines with a more traditional, art-historical exploration; it draws on a wide range of ancient authorities – from Plato and Xenophon to Cicero, Pliny, Lucian, and Philostratus.
The book covers painting in Bronze-Age Greece (Cyclades, Crete, Santorini, Mycenaean Greece); painting of the Archaic, the Classical, and the Hellenistic periods, and ends with a study of Graeco-Roman painting in the 2nd-3rd c. AD.
Dimitris Plantzos is the author of Greek Art and Archaeology, 1200-30 BC (Kapon Editions, 2016).
Trade Review‘…highlights the ways that the different mediums of visual culture, and particularly its manufacture, can be understood. Dimitris Plantzos’s glossy and colourful volume sets out to investigate the history of depiction in ancient Greece.’
Claire Nesbitt
-- Claire Nesbitt * New Book Chronicle, Antiquity, Volume 93, Issue 368 April 2019 *
Table of ContentsPreface
Studying Greek Painting
The forgotten forerunners: monumental painting in the Aegean during the Greek Bronze Age
Early Greek painting
The fifth century: tetrachromy and shadow-painting
The Greek gaze
Late Classical to Early Hellenistic
Hellenistic painting after Alexander
Painting in the Greco-Roman world
Notes
Bibliography
Index
