Entrée principale:

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768, author.

Titre et auteur:

History of ancient art / Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

Publication:

New York : F. Ungar Pub. Co., [1969]
©1968

Description:

4 volumes in 2 : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Translation of Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums.
The text is that of the 1849-73 ed.
"Winckelmann; a commemorative essay, by Johann Gottfried Herder": v. 1, p. vii-xvii.
Includes bibliographical references.
Volumes 1 and 2: History of Ancient Art -- The Origin of Art, and the Causes of Its Difference Among Different Nations -- The Shapes with Which Art Commenced -- Materials Used in Statuary -- Influence of Climate on Conformation -- Art Among the Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians -- Causes of the Peculiar Character of Egyptian Art -- Primitive Style of Egyptian Art -- Later Egyptian Style -- Mechanical Part of Egyptian Art -- Art Among the Phoenicians and Persians -- Art of the Etruscans and Their Neighbors -- Preliminary Remarks -- Conformation of Gods and Heroes Peculiar to the Etruscans -- Style of Etruscan Artists -- Art of the Nations Bordering on the Etruscans -- Art Among the Greeks -- Grounds and Causes of the Progress and Superiority of Greek Art Beyond That of Other Nations -- The Essential of Art -- The Conformation and Beauty of the Male Deities and Heroes -- The Conformation and Beauty of the Female Deities and Heroines -- The Expression of Beauty in Features and Action -- Proportion -- Composition -- Beauty of Individual Parts of the Body -- Beauty of the Extremities, Breast, and Abdomen -- Drawing of the Figures of Animals by Greek Masters.
Volumes 3 and 4: History of Ancient Art -- Drapery -- Materials, Kinds, and Shape of Garments -- The Covering and Dress of Individual Parts of the Body -- The Dress of Male Figures -- The Mechanical Part of Greek Art -- Materials Used in Art -- Work in Bronze -- Of the Paintings of the Ancients -- The Execution of Pictures -- The Rise and Fall of Greek Art -- The More Ancient Style of Art -- The Grand Style -- The Style of the Imitators -- Commencement of the Decline and Fall of Art -- Of Art Among the Romans -- History of Ancient Art in Its Relation to the External Circumstances of the Times Among the Greeks -- Art from the Earliest Ages to the Time of Phidias -- Art from the Time of Phidias to the Time of Alexander the Great -- Art in the Reign of Alexander the Great -- Art Under the Immediate Successors of Alexander the Great -- Greek Art Among the Romans -- Under the Republic -- Under the Roman Caesars.
In English ; translated from the German.

Sujet:

Art, Ancient.
Art, Greek.
Art antique.
Art, Ancient History.
Art, Greek History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 115880
Cote: W12252; ID:86-B3344
Exemplaire: v. 1-2
Statut: Disponible

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 115879
Cote: W12252; ID:86-B3344
Exemplaire: v. 3-4
Statut: Disponible