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Provides an exploration of the arts of antiquity, beginning with the earliest European cave paintings and continuing up to the coming of Christianity and Buddhism in the Old World, and to the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World. This book focuses on common solutions that man, the artist has devised for the problems posed by his environment.

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We now know conclusively that Greeks in fact lavished their sculptures with realistic colour paint, and also worked with a wealth of other materials on a major scale, including wood and precious metals. This edition showcases the artistic endeavours of the ancient Greeks.

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Britain's most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art recounts what the Parthenon and its sculptures meant to the citizens of fifth-century BCE Athens.

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Offering a survey of Greek vases, this book sketches their stylistic history. It explores the process of identifying artists; the methods of making and decorating the vases and the problems in doing so; the life of the potter; the pots' dissemination beyond Greece; and their functions in life, cult and as messengers of style and subject.