Product Description: Founded in 1879 as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago began a tradition of collecting plaster casts of Classical sculpture for display in its galleries and use in its studio art classes. Other original works of art were also acquired from the beginning, and over the years the Art Institute has established a renowned collection of antiquities...read more

Product Description: What Is a Man? enriches our understanding of the paradigm shift produced by feminist theory, that gender is constructed, not "natural," and is political. Indeed, Kampen's essay explores new ground, for as she points out, "few scholars until very recently have written about the way that gender as a category illuminates our understanding of manhood, and fewer still are the archaeologists and art historians who have studied masculinity in late antiquity...read more

Product Description: Book by Measham, Terence, Spathari, Elisabeth, Donnelly, Paul (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Book by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.)

Product Description: A presentation of over 200 objects from an important private collection of ancient art.

Product Description: Book by Herrmann, John J., Jr.