Ancient Greek Painting and its Echoes in Later Art

by Stelios Lydakis

• ISBN13: 9780892366835
• ISBN10: 0892366834
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

In his introduction, Stelios Lydakis notes, "It would be impossible for an art historian to study the works of antiquity without extensive reference to their influence on the art of the centuries that followed." Lydakis provides a complete history of anci

Author Biography

Stelios Lydakis is professor of art history at the University of Athens. He has written more than twenty books, among them Greek Painters and Greek Naif Painters, and has contributed to such books as The Dictionary of Greek Artists.

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(3)
PART I Prelude
Minoan and Mycenaean Art	14	(34)
PART II Ancient Greek Art
Ancient Greek Art and Its Influence on the Roman World	48	(9)
Ekphrases, Imagines, and Their Use during the Renaissance	57	(11)
The Birth of Greek Painting	68	(1)
Vase Painting	69	(38)
Polygnotos	107	(8)
White-Ground Lekythoi	115	(13)
Apollodoros the Skiagraphos	128	(3)
Zeuxis	131	(6)
Boeotian Painting	137	(2)
Pamphilos: Sikyonian Painting	139	(7)
The Great Painters of the Age of Alexander	146	(11)
Apelles	157	(15)
Philoxenos of Eretria: The Mosaic in the House of the Faun	172	(14)
Antiphilos	186	(2)
The Stelai from Demetrias	188	(4)
PART III Various Types of Painting
Landscapes and Scenography	192	(6)
The Odyssey Landscapes	198	(13)
Mosaic Floors	211	(15)
Originals and Copies	226	(6)
The Villa of the Mysteries	232	(7)
Still Lifes (Xenia)	239	(4)
Pastoral Motifs and Gardens	243	(11)
PART IV Last Glimmers: The Later Period of Eclecticism
New Trends	254	(11)
The Pompeian Third and Fourth Styles	265	(7)
Grottesche	272	(9)
Portraits	281	(10)
Postscript	291	(1)
Notes	292	(12)
Bibliography	304	(9)
Index of Names	313	(4)
Glossary	317	(2)
Photographic credits	319