The British Museum Book of Greek and Roman Art.This book provides the reader with an opportunity to note stylistic and cultural change over 3,500 years. Based on the Greek and Roman antiquities in the collection of the British Museum British Museum, the national repository in London for treasures in science and art. Located in the Bloomsbury section of the city, it has departments of antiquities, prints and drawings, coins and medals, and ethnography. , the 182 illustrations (seventy-five in full color) take the reader from the Early Greek Bronze Age Bronze Age, period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the (3200 BC), through the Geometric, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Civilizations viewed through their arts include the Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean and Etruscan, as well as Greece and Rome. Written for anyone curious about Greek and Roman Art, not just for the specialist. The author documents and describes an amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. range of art expression including pottery, sculpture, jewelry, mosaics, architecture, coinage and engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. sealstones. Recommended for artroom or library resource centers from middle school through university. |
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