Libros de ARTE CLASICO: GRECIA Y ROMA

Painting was one of the major achievements of the Classical world. This book examines the development of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from the earliest Minoan and ...

Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While ...

This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography and chronology of the ...

This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, ...

Cet ouvrage monographique sur la verrerie romaine de Haute-Normandie, fruit d'une longue recherche, présente tout d'abord le verre comme matériau, comme technique et aussi comme objet culturel pour l'archéologue et ...

The exhibition will give visitors a taste of the daily life of the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum, from the bustling street to the family home. The domestic space is ...

Engagingly written by a team of international contributors - Offers six exemplary case studies of Greeks and Romans at war - War lay at the heart of much of life ...

The destruction of Pompeii in ad 79 provides a unique opportunity to explore the use of everyday items. It allows us to identify the source and variety of products available ...

One of the greatest consequences of Rome's expansion across the Mediterranean world in the course of the Republic and the earliest years of the Empire was an exponential growth in ...

Voici Marseille en Grèce, à Delphes, vers 500 av. J.-C., un siècle seulement après la fondation de la cité phocéenne : au plus près d'Athéna, d'Apollon et de la pythie, ...

This book aims to collect, discuss and analyse all references to boats with connections to the Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, and the Balearic and Canary Islands. They range from the earliest ...

- Provides the full-length account of the Tazza Farnese's journey through history, including the full story of its near destruction in a Naples museum The banded agate bowl known as ...

The author is an acknowledged expert with practical experience. Covers the structures found throughout the Roman Empire, including roads, bridges and aqueducts, as well as components of buildings - tiles, ...

Offers the most comprehensive, interpretative introduction to Roman funerary art available Contextual approach does justice to the objective importance one of the most significant bodies of material from the Roman ...

Core tourist sites for the classical world are the ruins of those many and scattered examples of 'lost' and abandoned towns - from Pompeii to Timgad to Ephesus and Petra. ...

Gli stupefacenti resti dell'antica Ercolano offrono una testimonianza unica al mondo della civiltà romana. La catastrofica eruzione del Vesuvio del 79 d.C., in venti ore di attività, inghiottì città fino ...

As a civil engineer with leading German construction companies, Horst Barow has built highways and bridges in many parts of the world. He was aware of the importance infrastructure has ...

Every society builds, and many, if not all, utilize architectural structures as markers to define place, patron, or experience. Often we consider these architectural markers as "monuments" or "monumental" buildings. ...

The well-known formats of Roman sculpture are the ones best preserved, but inevitably limited to those designed to be permanent and immobile. A significant component of the Roman visual world ...

Mosaic has been called "painting for eternity," and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original condition and variety. Mosaic ...