Download or read book Art in Greece Classic Reprint written by Hippolyte Taine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art in Greece Influence of physical conditions on the early settlers of a country - Relationship of the Greek and the Latin 10 i. Circumstances causing the diversity of the two characters. - Climate. - Its mild effects - The soil poor and mountainous - Temperance of the inhabi tants. Universal presence of the Sea - Induce ments for the coasting trade - The Greeks seamen and navigators - Their natural finesse and precocious education. 12 II. Evidences of this character in their history. Ulysses.-the Graeculus. - Taste for mathematics and abstractions - Invention in the sciences - Phi losophic theories. - Sophists and Disputants. - The Attic taste 24 III. Lack of vastness in their landscape - Mountains, rivers and sea. - Clearness of relief and transpar ency of the atmosphere - Analogous effect in their political organization. - Small dimensions of the State in Greece - The acquired aptitude of the Greek mind for positive and clear conceptions. Evidences of this trait in their history. - Religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Classic Reprint written by Ernest Arthur Gardner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Grz'echz'sche Ge'tterideale. In the present volume only a few examples are mentioned as characteristic of the various periods. It may thus, I trust, serve as an introduction to a more complete study of the subject; and may, at the same time, offer to those who have not the leisure or inclination for such further study, at least a summary of what we may learn from Greece as to the relations of religion and art under the most favourable conditions. It is easy, as Aris totle says, to fill in the details if only the outlines are rightly drawn - 665m (iv ram-6 ell/at wpoayayefv Kai diaperiia'at 7d kanbg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Art of the Greeks Classic Reprint written by H. B. Walters and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Art of the Greeks H. S. Jones, Select Passages from Ancient Authors illustrative of the History of Greek Sculpture. London, 1895. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Message of Greek Art Classic Reprint written by H. H. Powers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Message of Greek Art The list might be prolonged indefinitely, but it would take us far from our chosen theme. Suffice it to say that it is more than doubtful, in the light of our last century of history, whether any race now living, if situated as were the Athenians, subjected to the same temptations and confronted by the same appalling disasters, would acquit themselves as well. And it is perfectly certain that no modern people under like conditions would build a Parthenon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Handbook of Greek Art written by Gisela Marie Augusta Richter and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greek Art on Greek Soil Classic Reprint written by J. M. Hoppin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greek Art on Greek Soil There are said to be at present chiefly three races, or classes, of people, who inhabit Greece, clearly distinguishable from one another, the Wallachians, Albanians and Greeks, the last being the germinal or unifying one, which is especially the case in the central regions of Phocis and Boeotia about Mt. Parnassos, where ten old Hellenic names of towns and villages are found for one that is Slavic, or foreign. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art written by Sarah P. Morris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the myths surrounding Daidalos as an example to describe the profound influence of the Near East on ancient Greece's artistic and literary origins.
Download or read book The History of Ancient Art written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Ancient Art: Among the Greeks Cline and fall - and also the causes to which may reasonably be attributed the points of resemblance and difference observable in the arts of different na tions. The soundness of his judgment, the acuteness and originality of his observations, and the copious ness of his illustrations, drawn from an intimate familiarity with every extant monument of ancient art, and with everything in ancient classic literature which could elucidate the subject to which he had devoted his life, render him the most trustworthy, instructive, and delightful of the writers on art. I cannot but think that a careful study of Winckel mann's History of Ancient Art, and a thoughtful consideration of the great principles embodied in it, must necessarily tend to form a pure, correct, and elevated taste. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Grammar of Greek Art Classic Reprint written by Percy Gardner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Grammar of Greek Art Just as the poetry and prose of the Greeks is expressed in a particular language, the words and the grammar of which must be studied by those who would understand the literature, so works of Greek painting and sculpture also are composed in what may be called a particular artistic language.l The words of that language are the strokes of the brush and the chisel; but these are put together in order to embody Greek ideas in ways which are distinctive and not like those adopted by any other people; certainly unlike those of modern art. The object of the present work is to set forth, as simply and directly as possible, what these ways are; to define, in fact, the principles of Greek art, and so render more intelligible the works of paint ing and sculpture which have come down to us from Hellenic antiquity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Art of Ancient Greece written by J. J. Pollitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a companion volume to Professor Pollitt's The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (published by the Press in 1983), presents a comprehensive collection in translation of ancient literary evidence relating to Greek sculpture, painting, architecture, and the decorative arts. Its purpose is to make this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology. The author's translations of a wide selection of Greek and Latin texts are accompanied by an introduction, explanatory commentary, and a full bibliography. An earlier version of this book was published twenty-five years ago by Prentice-Hall. In this new publication Professor Pollitt has added a considerable number of new passages, revised some of his earlier translations and presented the texts in a different order which allows the reader to follow more easily the development of sculpture and painting as perceived by the ancient writers. The new and substantial bibliography, organised by topics as they appear in the book, emphasises works that deal directly with the literary sources or that supplement our knowledge of the personalities and monuments described in the sources. This collection will be welcomed by students and teachers of Greek art who have long been in need of an authoritative and reliable sourcebook for their subject.
Download or read book The Rendering of Nature in Early Greek Art Classic Reprint written by Emanuel Loewy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rendering of Nature in Early Greek Art The translation may occasionally be found elliptical because Professor Loewy, writing for German archaeologists, is content to allude to points of controversy familiar to them but not to us. But I trust that only a few lines will thus disconcert the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Art and Culture of Early Greece 1100 480 B C written by Jeffrey M. Hurwit and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts. Origins and originality constitute a central theme, for during this period representational and narrative art, monumental sculpture and architecture, epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry, the city-state (polis), tyranny and early democracy, and natural philosophy were all born.
Download or read book Greek Art Classic Reprint written by H. B. Walters and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greek Art Early Greek Art and recent discoveries - Civilisation of Bronze Age - The Mycenaean people - Early remains of Troy and the Greek Islands - Crete and Minos - Mycenae and its remains Metal-work and painting - Literary traditions - Art in Homer The chest of Kypselo's - Oriental influence (egypt, Assyria, Phoenicia) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art Classic Reprint written by Burlington Fine Arts Club and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art Greek as if it had been found on the Athenian Akropolis, and that the Etruscan vases found on Etruscan and Italian soil are mainly Attic is now a matter of ancient history. May not the same be the case to a certain extent with the numerous bronzes which are labelled Etruscan because of their provenance? If it be urged that the finds on the soil of Greece proper have not - as was in variably the case with the vases - always yielded bronzes similar in subject and character to those from Etruria, it may again be asked whether certain classes of objects were not made in Athens for export only, to meet the taste and demand of foreign clients? In the majority of cases it, is futile to pronounce definitely on artistic as opposed to local provenance, so long as many classical sites, in Asia Minor in particular, remain unexcavated and unex plored. The artistic predominance of Attica and Athens becomes clearer daily. We have seen within the last ten or fifteen years the Northern Greek School of Brunn and the famous Aeginetan School disappear with the recognition that Athens had produced the same artistic phenomena and was the parent of them all. In the same way it will doubtless come to pass that many objects, though found in Etruria and put to Etruscan usage, prove to be Greek, and perhaps Attic in their origin. Meanwhile, it has seemed wise and even scientific to admit side by Side with works of art (in this case mainly bronzes and a few terra-cottas, since vases are happily no longer in question) found in Greece or in the avowedly Greek colonies of Asia Minor, Egypt, and Magna Graecia, a number of the so - called Etruscan bronzes, provided always that these bore unmistakable traces of direct or indirect Greek influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Greek Painters Art Classic Reprint written by Irene Weir and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Greek Painters' Art The purpose of this book, therefore, is to bring the reader in touch with the Greek painter of old in a simple and direct manner, the Introduction serving to lead him to the enchanted land. Once there, he may explore at will the brief history of painting, the subject of vase painting, the testimony of recent writers on color as applied to archi tecture and sculpture, and the remains of portrait painting, mosaic, and mural painting. The aim is not in any measure to exhaust the subject, but to group together the most reli able matter obtainable from ancient and modern writings and from recent reports by archaeologists, and to record the results Of personal study from books, from collections in foreign and native museums, and from actual finds in Greece itself, in all that relates to color as used by the Greek painter of old. This has been done not only with the idea of compiling a useful summary of important facts, but to awaken the interest and kindle the imagination toward a keener appreciation of the painters' art wherever found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of Greek Art written by F. B. Tarbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Greek Art: With an Introductory Chapter on Art in Egypt and Mesopotamia The art of any artistically gifted people may be studied. With various purposes and in various ways. One man, being himself an artist, may seek inspiration or guidance for his own, practice; another, being a student of the history of-civilization, may strive to com prehend the products of art as one manifestation of a people's spiritual life another may be interested chiefly in tracing the development of artistic processes, forms, and subjects; and so on. But this book has been written in the conviction that the greatest of all motives for studying art, the motive which is and ought to be strongest in most people, is the desire to become acquainted with beautiful and noble things, the things that soothe the cares, and lift the thought? Of man. The historical method of treatment has been adopted as a matter of course, but the emphasis is not laid upon the historical aspects of the subject. The chief aim has been to present characteristic specimens of the finest Greek work that has been preserved to us, and to suggest how they may be intelligently enjoyed. Portu nate they who can carry their studies farther, with the help of less elementary handbooks, of photographs, of casts, or, best of all, of the original monuments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ancient Greece written by H. B. Cotterill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ancient Greece: A Sketch of Its Art, Literature and Philosophy Viewed in Connexion With Its External History From Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander the Great The letters b.c. (but not a.d.) have been generally omitted, as unnecessary in a book on Ancient Greece. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
