Main entry:

Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp), 1867-1944.

Title & Author:

The art of the Greeks, by H.B. Walters; with 112 plates and 18 illustrations in the text.

Publication:

New York, The Macmillan company; London, Methuen and Co., 1906.

Description:

xvi, 277, [1] pages frontispiece, illustrations, CXI plates 26 cm

Notes:
Plates, with the exception of XXVII, XLIV, and XXIX, printed on both sides.
Printed in Great Britain.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xvi).
Characteristics of Greek Art -- The Beginnings of Greek Art -- Greek Architecture -- Greek Sculpture: Introductory -- The Rise of Greek Sculpture (600-480 B.C.) -- Pheidias and His Contemporaries -- Greek Sculpture After Pheidias -- Greek Painting -- Greek Vases -- Greek Terra-Cottas -- Greek Gem Engraving -- Greek Coins -- Greek Metal-Work.

Summary:

An extensive history of ancient Greek arts beginning with Homeric, Mycenaean and Minoan periods, through the classical age, into the Hellenistic period. Includes numerous plates and sketches of famous works and buildings, lists of existing Doric and Ionic temples, as well as a chronology of Greek arts.

Subject:

Art, Greek.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 182864
Call No.: 0000241 3700 GF1122 N5630.W3 1906; ID:85-B3286
Status: Available