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Die Göttersage in der klassischen und hellenistischen kunst
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ISBN: 3777432202 Year: 1981 Publisher: München : Hirmer Verlag,

The revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance art
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ISBN: 0521815762 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

The Greek mysteries
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ISBN: 9004044868 9789004044869 Year: 1976 Volume: section 17, Greece Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

Myth into Art : Poet and Painter in Classical Greece
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ISBN: 0415067936 0415067928 9780415067935 9780415067928 9780203415030 9781134916856 9781134916894 9781134916900 9781138138322 Year: 1994 Publisher: London : Routledge,

D'Europe à l'Europe.
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ISBN: 2900479126 290047910X 2900479142 9782900479100 9782900479124 9782900479148 Year: 1998 Volume: 33bis Publisher: Tours : Centre de recherches A. Piganiol,


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Image and Myth : A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art
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ISBN: 9780226297651 0226297659 9780226025902 022602590X 1299619428 9781299619425 0226297667 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece-but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients. Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. He reveals that developments in Greek vase painting were driven as much by the times as they were by tradition-the better-known the story, the less leeway the artists had in interpreting it. As literary culture transformed from an oral tradition, in which stories were always in flux, to the stability of written texts, the images produced by artists eventually became nothing more than illustrations of canonical works. At once a work of cultural and art history, Image and Myth builds a new way of understanding the visual culture of ancient Greece.

Word and image in ancient Greece
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ISBN: 0748614052 0748614060 0748679855 0748651055 0585442002 9780748614059 9780585442006 9780748679850 9780748651054 9780748614066 Year: 2000 Volume: 1 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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The book, which contains 50 illustrations, makes a coherent and important contribution to a subject of great current interest to classicists of all disciplines.

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