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Author Jenkins, Ian.

Title Greek architecture and its sculpture / Ian Jenkins ; line illustrations by Kate Morton
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006

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Description 271 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm
Contents Enlightenment and renaissance -- Greek temples : Form and meaning -- The temples of Artemis at Ephesos -- The Parthenon and its sculptures -- The Athenian Acropolis : Propylaea, Nike Temple and Erechtheum -- The Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai -- Lycian tombs -- The Nereid Monument -- The Mausoleum at Halikarnassos -- The Temple of Athena Polias at Priene
Summary "Drawing on the Greek and Lycian architecture and sculpture in the British Museum - a collection second to none in quality, quantity, and geographical and chronological range - this lavishly illustrated volume tells a remarkable story reaching from the archaic temple of Artemis, the Parthenon, and other temples of the Athenian Acropolis to the temple of Apollo at Bassai, the sculptured tombs of Lycia, the Mausoleum, and the temple of Athena Polias at Priene. Ian Jenkins explains each as a work of art and as a historical phenomenon, revealing how the complex personality of these buildings is bound up with the people who funded, desisted, built, used, destroyed, discovered, and studied them. With 250 photographs and specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art and architecture that gave form, direction, and meaning to much of Western culture."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-265) and index
Subject Sculpture, Greek.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Greece.
Architecture -- Greece.
LC no. 2006043730
ISBN 0674023889 alkaline paper
9780674023888 alkaline paper