Narrative and event in ancient art / edited by Peter J. Holliday
1993, 1st edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388369
ISBN: 0521430135
Physical description; 368 pp.: illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. Contents; Narrativity and the Narmer Palette / Whitney Davis -- Sennacherib's Lachish narratives / John Malcolm Russell -- Some reflections on the rhetoric of Aegean and Egyptian art / Nanno Marinatos -- Narrative and image in Attic vase painting : Ajax and Kassandra at the Trojan Palladion / Joan Breton Connelly -- Narration and allusion in the Hellenistic Baroque / Andrew Stewart -- Narrative structures in the François Tomb / Peter J. Holliday -- Some new grounds for narrative : Marcus Antonius's base (the Ara Domitti Ahenobarbi) and Republican biographies / Ann Kuttner -- Reading the Augustan city / Diane Favro -- The Gemma Augustea : ideology, rhetorical imagery, and the creation of a dynastic narrative / John Pollini -- The "Cena Trimalchionis" and biographical narration in Roman middle-class art / Jane Whitehead. Subjects; History, Ancient, in art. Art, Classical. Classical Greece. Visual arts. Themes, motives.
Price: €85.00