Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jenkins, Ian / Morton, Kate, PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press, From Athens ong>andong> Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea ong>andong> from Ionia, Lycia, ong>andong> Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity --among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos ong>andong> the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. Drawing on the Greek ong>andong> Lycian architecture ong>andong> sculpture in the British Museum--a collection second to none in quality, quantity, ong>andong> geographical ong>andong> chronological range--this lavishly illustrated volume tells a remarkable story reaching from the archaic temple of Artemis, the Parthenon, ong>andong> other temples of the Athenian Acropolis to the temple of Apollo at Bassai, the sculptured tombs of Lycia, the Mausoleum, ong>andong> the temple of Athena Polias at Priene. Ian Jenkins explains each as a work of art ong>andong> as a historical phenomenon, revealing how the complex personality of these buildings is bound up with the people who funded, designed, built, used, destroyed, discovered, ong>andong> studied them. With 250 photographs ong>andong> specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art ong>andong> architecture that gave form, direction, ong>andong> meaning to much of Western culture.