| Description |
440 pages : 385 illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: L'età classica. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-423) and index. |
| Contents |
From the decline of the art of the Mycenaeans to the beginning of Greek art in the Geometric period -- The orientalizing trend and its diffusion -- The birth of monumental sculpture and the arts of the Archaic period -- The transition from the Archaic to the Severe style -- The Severe style and its artistic conception -- The Classical style and the achievement of an ideal organic naturalism -- The art of the fourth century and the humanization of the Classical ideal -- The art of the Hellenistic period -- The contrast between Greek influence and the ideal of the Civis Romanus -- Artistic trends under Sulla and Caesar and the formation of Roman art -- Augustan and Julio-Claudian classicism -- Naturalism and colorism in Flavian art -- Greek teaching and Roman tradition in the Imperial art of the Trajanic period -- The classicizing character of Hadrianic art -- Classicism and colorism in the art of the Antonines -- Expressionism in late second-century art and the beginning of late antique conceptions -- Severan artistic splendor and the art of the late empire -- Eastern and western aspects of art in the reign of Constantine -- Popular and classicizing currents in the art of the fourth century -- The new development of the historical relief in the East -- Glossary. |
| Subject |
Art, Classical.
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Art, Classical.
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Art, Classical. (OCoLC)fst00816126
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| Added Title |
Età classica. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973. Età classica. English. Art of ancient Greece and Rome. New York : H.N. Abrams, [1967] (OCoLC)697736874 |
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