Fine Books

Fine Books
Author: Alfred William Pollard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1912
Genre: Illustrated books
ISBN:

The Silver Canvas

The Silver Canvas
Author: Bates Lowry
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000-02-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892365366

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.

A History of Greek Art

A History of Greek Art
Author: Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1444350153

Offering a unique blend of thematic and chronological investigation, this highly illustrated, engaging text explores the rich historical, cultural, and social contexts of 3,000 years of Greek art, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period. Uniquely intersperses chapters devoted to major periods of Greek art from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period, with chapters containing discussions of important contextual themes across all of the periods Contextual chapters illustrate how a range of factors, such as the urban environment, gender, markets, and cross-cultural contact, influenced the development of art Chronological chapters survey the appearance and development of key artistic genres and explore how artifacts and architecture of the time reflect these styles Offers a variety of engaging and informative pedagogical features to help students navigate the subject, such as timelines, theme-based textboxes, key terms defined in margins, and further readings. Information is presented clearly and contextualized so that it is accessible to students regardless of their prior level of knowledge A book companion website is available at www.wiley.gom/go/greekart with the following resources: PowerPoint slides, glossary, and timeline