The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World

The

CAMBRI D GE HISTORY of

PA I N T I N G in the

CLASSICAL WORLD Edited by

Edited by

J. J. Pollitt A comprehensive history of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. www.cambridge.org/painting13

The Cambridge History of Painting in the

Classical World

e dit e d by j. j. p ol li t t Yale University, Connecticut

Painting was one of the major achievements of the Classical world. This multi-authored volume brings together a team of experts to examine the development of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from the earliest Minoan and Cycladic frescoes of the Aegean Bronze Age to late Roman painting, from approximately 1800 bc to ad 400. It provides a comprehensive study of major monuments, including exciting new material that has been discovered in recent years and has transformed the field, and offers a critical overview of scholarly debates and controversies on aspects of style, iconography, technique and cultural context.

This volume provides an up-to-date and muchneeded overview of the monuments that are now known and of the ideas that have been generated about them, and contains more than 300 images, including over 100 in colour.

2013 | 276 x 219 mm | 465pp 236 b/w illus. 140 colour illus. 6 maps Hardback | c. £150 | 978-0-521-86591-3

Contents

List of Plates and Figures List of Contributors Preface J. J. Pollitt Maps

chapter 1 Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age Anne P. Chapin chapter 2 The Lost Art: Early Greek Wall and Panel Painting, 760–480 bc.

Jeffrey M. Hurwit chapter 3 Etruscan and Greek Tomb Painting in Italy, c. 700–400 b.c Stephan Steingräber chapter 4 Reflections of Monumental Painting in Greek Vase Painting in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries b.c.

Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell chapter 5 Hellenistic Painting in the Eastern Mediterranean, Mid–Fourth to Mid–First Century b.c Stella G. Miller chapter 6 Etruscan and Italic Tomb Painting, c. 400–200 b.c.

Agnès Rouveret chapter 7 Painting in Greek and Graeco-Roman Art Criticism J. J. Pollitt chapter 8 Roman Painting in the Republic and Early Empire Irene Bragantini chapter 9 Roman Painting of the Middle and Late Empire Roger Ling Bibliography Index

Images in order of use in this flyer: Alexandrovo, Thracian wall painting: the hunt from the cupola of the Tomb of the Hunt. Late fourth or early third century B.C. (Photo: Courtesy of Georgi Kitov) (Included in the book: Plate 5.11) Kazanlak, Thracian wall painting: detail of the banqueting and chariot race friezes from the cupola of the Tomb of the Banquet. Early third century. (Photo: L. Zhivkova, Kazanlashkata grobnitsa [Sofia, 1974], courtesy of Dr. Nikola Theodossiev) (Included in the book: Plate 5.12) Mycenae, Southwestern Building: Mykenaia Fresco.

LH IIIB, c. 1300–1200 B.C. Athens, National Museum.

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