John Boardman Foreword (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Includes slipcover.; With 504 Illustrations, 60 in colour. Looks at various types of art (architecture and painting, metalwork, weapons, stone vessels, pottery, engraving, jewelry and ornament, ivory, bone, and wood, sculpture); 316 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. book has minor shelfwear. Gift inscription to ffep. Small sticker stain to ffep. DJ has minor edgewear with small tears and creasing.; With 504 Illustrations, 60 in colour. Looks at various types of art (architecture and painting, metalwork, weapons, stone vessels, pottery, engraving, jewelry and ornament, ivory, bone, and wood, sculpture); 316 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. book has very minor shelfwear. Small sticker stain to ffep. DJ is a bit tatty with small tears and creasing.; With 504 Illustrations, 60 in colour. Looks at various types of art (architecture and painting, metalwork, weapons, stone vessels, pottery, engraving, jewelry and ornament, ivory, bone, and wood, sculpture); 316 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good/No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good/No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's original blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, Thames and Hudson Dolphins device stamped in gilt to front board. 74pp + 144 pages of photographic plates. Folding diagram of the East and West pediments. Prior owner's name to fep. Unclipped pictorial DJ. From the library of Dr Nicholas Richardson, longtime tutor of Classics at Merton College, Oxford. …

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Revised edition. 4to. Unpaginated, glossary. Illustrated throughout in color. Bound in grey cloth with black lettering printed on spine. Fine in Fine dust jacket, first hardcover edition. Ortiz assembled the largest private collection of antiquities.Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.…

Hardcover quarto, 316pp., 60 colour and 444 monochrome illustrations. Light spotting to text block edges, a couple of very small marks; boards very good; dustwrapper lightly worn with some minor scorings. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. How far back can we trace the origins of Greek Art? Is it confined to the fortunes of great City States such as Athens and Corinth, or are flickerings of its glory to be seen in earlier cultures? And, if so, who were these precursors, and what do we know of them? This brilliant and scholarly book demonstrates how the roots of Greek Art reach back long before its generally accepted beginnings in 1000 BC, when, as scholars have previously held, it was the product of a gradual renaissance following the destruction of the Bronze Age civilizations. The authors argue, on the basis of works of art richly illustrated and fully analysed here, that the origins of Greek Art do not lie in the so-called Dark Ages, but that they should be sought in the Golden Age of Mycenae 600 years earlier. This fascinating society was once believed to have totally succumbed to waves of destruction before the Dark Ages in about 1000 BC, but it can now be seen to have survived in Greek myths and artistic conventions right through to the high period of Classical Art. This confirms the discovery, made through the decipherment of Linear B, that the Mycenaeans spoke an early form of Greek and were thus the direct cultural precursors of Classical Greek civilization. The novel approach taken by the authors concentrates on this astonishing continuity of Greek Art. By examining the objects class by class - architecture, metalwork, pottery, engraved gems, jewellery, sculpture, ivory, stone vessels, weapons - they are able to show how certain techniques and materials have survived throughout the centuries, and how some were lost for ever. Their superb blend of scholarship and of rich and wide-ranging illustration offers the reader a unique opportunity to understand the complex and potent strands of tradition that culminate in the splendours of Ancient Greece. …