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A comprehensive history of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.
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The
CA M B R I D G E H I S T O R Y
of
PA I N T I N Gin the
C L A S S I CA L WO R LD
A comprehensive history of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from
the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.
Edited by
J. J. PollittEdited by
www.cambridge.org/painting13
Painting was one of the major achievements of the Classical world. � is multi-authored volume brings together a team of experts to examine the development of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from the earliest Minoan and
Cycladic frescoes of the Aegean Bronze Age to late Roman painting, from approximately 1800 bc to ad 400. It provides a comprehensive study of
major monuments, including exciting new material that has been discovered in recent years and has
transformed the � eld, and o� ers a critical overview of scholarly debates and controversies on aspects of style, iconography, technique and cultural context. � is volume provides an up-to-date and much-
needed overview of the monuments that are now known and of the ideas that have
been generated about them, and contains more than 300 images, including
over 100 in colour.
The Cambridge History of Painting
in the Classical World
edited by j . j . pollittYale University, Connecticut
2013 | 276 x 219 mm | 465pp
236 b/w illus. 140 colour illus. 6 maps
Hardback | c. £150 | 978-0-521-86591-3
List of Plates and FiguresList of Contributors Preface J. J. Pollitt
Maps
chapter 1Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age
Anne P. Chapin
chapter 2� e Lost Art: Early Greek Wall and Panel Painting, 760–480 bc.
Je� rey M. Hurwit
chapter 3Etruscan and Greek Tomb Painting in Italy, c. 700–400 b.c
Stephan Steingräber
chapter 4Re� ections of Monumental Painting in Greek Vase Painting in the
Fifth and Fourth Centuries b.c. Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell
chapter 5Hellenistic Painting in the Eastern Mediterranean, Mid–Fourth to Mid–First Century b.c
Stella G. Miller
chapter 6Etruscan and Italic Tomb Painting, c. 400–200 b.c.
Agnès Rouveret
chapter 7Painting in Greek and Graeco-Roman Art Criticism
J. J. Pollitt
chapter 8Roman Painting in the Republic and Early Empire
Irene Bragantini
chapter 9Roman Painting of the Middle and Late Empire
Roger Ling
Bibliography Index
Contents
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Images in order of use in this fl yer:Alexandrovo, Thracian wall painting: the hunt from the cupola of the Tomb of the Hunt. Late fourth or early third century B.C. (Photo: Courtesy of Georgi Kitov) (Included in the book: Plate 5.11)Kazanlak, Thracian wall painting: detail of the banqueting and chariot race friezes from the cupola of the Tomb of the Banquet. Early third century. (Photo: L. Zhivkova, Kazanlashkata grobnitsa [Sofi a, 1974], courtesy of Dr. Nikola Theodossiev) (Included in the book: Plate 5.12)Mycenae, Southwestern Building: Mykenaia Fresco. LH IIIB, c. 1300–1200 B.C. Athens, National Museum. (Photo: A. P. Chapin) (Included in the book: Plate 1.14)
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