Before the glory that was Rome, there was the magnificence of Greece. Considered the foundation of most Western culture, the architecture and statuary in this volume illustrate the imagination and talent of the ancient artists. Superb color photography, including back/white drawings of the way it was before war, destruction and foreign collectors took their toll. This is not just a book to look at, but is also a learning experience...

Arts of the ancient Greeks

Arts & Photography

BRILLIANT, Richard

History & Criticism

McGraw=Hill

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Pompeii AD 79: The treasure of rediscovery

C. N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers

Analyzing the theme, provenance, and history of the Vatican Laocoön, Richard Brilliant traces the interpretation of this masterpiece of Greco-Roman sculpture through the ages, showing how these interpretations have shaped its reception. The Vatican Laocoön has suffered the vicissitudes of changing tastes, differing agendas of incompatible interpretations, and relegation to the margins of aesthetic preference. Several Laocoöns are identified in this erudite and strikingly original study: the alleged, lost "Greek original" the extant marbles sculpted in the first century; the sixteenth-century restoration and its impact; the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century topos of critical judgment; the twentieth-century re-restored artifact of ancient art. Yet, the Vatican Laocoön contains all of them in its obdurate self, and My Laocoön treats their history as a means of demonstrating an artwork's power to transcend its critical reception.Discovered in Rome in 1506, the Laocoön stimulated the imagination of sixteenth-century artists and humanists because of the sculpture’s expressive exploitation of the human body under stress. Variations in the critical reception of the Laocoön and disagreements about what the work represented, and how it did so, came to a climax when it became the victim of the controversy between Winckelmann and Lessing. Lessing’s anti-Laocoön Laocoön, certainly one of the seminal tracts of aesthetic criticism, eventually won out. Ironically, this victory coincided with Winckelmann’s invention of the history of ancient art, which differentiated between Greek and Roman artworks and bestowed upon the former a much higher aesthetic evaluation.This value-laden historiographical development seriously affected the Laocoön’s reception, once scholars deemed it a "Roman" work, perhaps even a copy of a lost Greek original. The Laocoön was doubly damned: it was Roman, not Greek, and its ontological credentials had been compromised, often to such a degree that the marbles were rendered almost invisible in the search for the Greek precedents. Re-restoration of the Laocoön in 1960 intensified its emotive power, but by then artists and critics had become indifferent. Brilliant tells the Laocoön story with wit and erudition, and his selection of Laocoön illustrations masterfully demonstrates the influence that this work has exerted over the centuries.

My Laocoon: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks (California Studies in the History of Art Discovery Series) (Volume 8)

University of California Press

Portraiture

This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society.The author's argument on behalf of portraiture (and he draws on examples by such artists as Botticelli, Rembrandt, Matisse, Warhol and Hockney) does not comprise a mere survey of the genre, nor is it a straightforward history of its reception. Instead, Brilliant presents a thematic and cogent analysis of the connections between the subject-matter of portraits and the beholder's response â€“ the response he or she makes to the image itself and to the person it represents. Portraiture's extraordinary longevity and resilience as a genre is a testament to the power of this imaginative transaction between the subject, the artist and the beholder.

Graphic Design

Harvard University Press

This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society. The author's argument on behalf of portraiture (and he draws on examples by such artists as Botticelli, Rembrandt, Matisse, Warhol and Hockney) does not comprise a mere survey of the genre, nor is it a straightforward history of its reception. Instead, Brilliant presents a thematic and cogent analysis of the connections between the subject-matter of portraits and the beholder's response ? the response he or she makes to the image itself and to the person it represents. Portraiture's extraordinary longevity and resilience as a genre is a testament to the power of this imaginative transaction between the subject, the artist and the beholder.

Illustrated book of Roman Art about the The Use of Gestures to Denote Status and Rank in Roman Sculpture and Coinage

Gesture and Rank in Roman Art: The Use of Gestures to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage (Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Ser, Mem)

Science & Math

Elliots Books

Roman Art From the Republic to Constantine is a study of the principal aspects and developments of Roman art from inception to its transformation in late antiquity, about A.D. 300.

Roman art from the Republic to Constantine

distributed by Praeger

Visual Narratives

Visual Narratives: Storytelling in Etruscan and Roman Art

Cornell Univ Pr

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Sculpture

Cornell University Press

This reprint of Richard Brilliant's papers document the development of his ideas concerning Roman art and its links with Greek art. Divided into three sections, the papers discuss portraiture, the methods by which Roman artists adapted earlier models and the symbolic structures and characteristics of Roman art. Subjects include Jewish symbolism, the use of Greek mythology and the place of Africa in the art of Greece and Rome. Table of Contents Preface On Portraits An Early Imperial Portait of Caligula One Head, Three Problems Una statua ritratta del territorio di Tarquinia Hairiness: A Matter of Style and Substance in Roman Portraits Augustus and Hadrian: Classical and Classicizing Modes Marmi classici, storie tragiche Mythology Intellectual Giants: A Classical Topos and The School of Athens Ancient Roman Monuments as Models and as Topoi Simboli ed attributi nell'arte greca-romana 'Jewish Symbols', Is that still Good enough? Preface and Introduction to Roman Art from the Republic to Constantine Storia dell'arte e sociologia Temporal Aspects in Late Roman Art The Art of Classical Italy Prolegomena to a Very Long Book on the City of Rome Africa in the Arts of Greece and Rome I Piedistalli del Giardino di Boboli: 'spolia in se', 'spolia in re' Resistance and Receptivity to Greco-Roman Art Scenic Representation 'I Come to You as Your Lord': Late Roman Imperial Art Patterns of Appropriation: Greek Myths in Roman Sarcophagi.

Commentaries on Roman Art: Selected Studies

Pindar Press

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Arts of the ancient Greeks

Pompeii AD 79: The treasure of rediscovery

My Laocoon: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks (California Studies in the History of Art Discovery Series) (Volume 8)

Portraiture

Portraiture

Gesture and Rank in Roman Art: The Use of Gestures to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage (Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Ser, Mem)

Roman art from the Republic to Constantine

Visual Narratives: Storytelling in Etruscan and Roman Art

Visual Narratives

Commentaries on Roman Art: Selected Studies