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Product Description: This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on social space...read more
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9781472526120 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 6, 2016, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird.
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9780190256517 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 31, 2016, cover price $45.00
Product Description: This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman interest in Egyptian culture was widespread, as evidenced by works ranging from the monumental obelisks, brought to the capital over the Mediterranean Sea by the emperors, to locally made emulations of Egyptian artifacts found in private homes and in temples to Egyptian gods...read more
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9781107040489 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 6, 2015, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province.
9780405070273, titled "New Dimensions of Deep Analysis" | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1975, cover price $26.95 | also contains New Dimensions of Deep Analysis
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9780307593382 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 28, 2014, cover price $35.00
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9780307476593 | Vintage Books, November 4, 2014, cover price $17.95
Product Description: When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society...read more
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9781610696197, titled "Artifacts from Ancient Rome: Daily Life from Ancient Rome Illustrated" | Greenwood Pub Group, September 30, 2014, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history.
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9780521192156 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2013, cover price $120.00
Product Description: 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 material, as well as discussion of the craftspeople who created them and the technologies they used...read more
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9781107018402 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras.
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9780521825207 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $99.99
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9781107013322 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 11, 2012, cover price $99.99
Product Description: Linear perspective is a science that represents objects in space upon a plane, projecting them from a point of view. This concept was known in classical antiquity. In this book, Rocco Sinisgalli investigates theories of linear perspective in the classical era...read more
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9781107025905 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 17, 2012, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Linear perspective is a science that represents objects in space upon a plane, projecting them from a point of view.
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9780521195355 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 10, 2012, cover price $110.00
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9780521124133 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 27, 2012, cover price $34.99
Product Description: This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions...read more
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9780230314405 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues.
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9781405186049 | Blackwell Pub, May 29, 2012, cover price $439.00
Product Description: From the age of Homer until late antiquity the culture of ancient Greece and Rome was permeated by images of Greek myths. Gods and heroes were represented as statues, on vase and wall paintings, on temples, on sarcophagi as well as in other media...read more
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9780521895828 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 23, 2012, cover price $110.00
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9780521720076 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2012), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: From the age of Homer until late antiquity the culture of ancient Greece and Rome was permeated by images of Greek myths.
Product Description: This new translation brings to light the early days of scientific archaeology and the unearthing and study of Herculaneum and Pompeii as observed by the erudite and acerbic art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717â1768). His Letter, published in German in 1762, displays his extensive knowledge of geology, ancient literature, and art while offering a scathing critique of the Spanish Bourbon excavations around the Bay of Naples and of the officials involved...read more
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9781606060896 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, September 27, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This new translation brings to light the early days of scientific archaeology and the unearthing and study of Herculaneum and Pompeii as observed by the erudite and acerbic art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717â1768).
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9780405070273 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1975, cover price $26.95 | also contains Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture
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