Since the Renaissance, it has been a generally accepted thesis that almost all Roman sculptures depicting ideal figures, such as gods, personifications, and figures from myth, were copies of Greek originals. This book traces the origin of that thesis to the academic belief in the mythical perfection of now-lost Greek art, which contrasted with the reality of the "imperfection" of Roman works. In a new take on long-held beliefs, Johann Joachim Winckelmann's role is found to be less important than those of Giorgio Vasari and ...
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Since the Renaissance, it has been a generally accepted thesis that almost all Roman sculptures depicting ideal figures, such as gods, personifications, and figures from myth, were copies of Greek originals. This book traces the origin of that thesis to the academic belief in the mythical perfection of now-lost Greek art, which contrasted with the reality of the "imperfection" of Roman works. In a new take on long-held beliefs, Johann Joachim Winckelmann's role is found to be less important than those of Giorgio Vasari and Ennio Quirino Visconti. The author argues that, contrary to the accepted wisdom of the last three hundred years, Roman sculpture had very much its own style and ideals. This synthesis of the history of the study of Roman sculpture does away with the idea that the genre of ideal works consists of mechanical copies and argues that they are, rather, creative adaptations.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0892368063. Cloth boards. Color and b/w illustrations. Glossy paper. Due to size, ships within US only and only by media rate mail.; tall 8vo 9"-10" tall; 344 pp.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Jacket spine is lightly sunned, but legibility is not affected. Jacket is worn along edges. Upper edges of jacket flaps are sunned, but readability is not impacted. Spine is shaken but secure. Cover edged are gently worn. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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Very Good in Very Good+ jacket. Book. 4to-over 9æ-12" tall. Hardcover bound in brown cloth lettered in gold, in publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. 304 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Profusely illustrated with 139 color and 127 black and white photographs. First edition. No previous ownership marks. Curiously, roughly two dozen leaves are clipped at bottom fore-edge corner, not affecting text or images. Whether a binders error of an overzealous former owner, all the cuts are at the same angle, though not the same overall area. Else a clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Still very good or better in a very good+ dust-jacket.
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Very Good. 2008. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Quarto. viii & 304 pp. Profusely illustrated. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, General Art).
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