Covers painting in Bronze-Age Greece; painting of the Archaic, the Classical, and the Hellenistic periods, and ends with a study of Graeco-Roman painting in the 2nd-3rd c. AD. Looks at techniques, style and themes in multidisciplinary approach to the material record. Extensive bibliography. Greek language text. 334 col. illus.
‘…highlights the ways that the different mediums of visual culture, and particularly its manufacture, can be understood. Dimitris Plantzos’s glossy and colourful volume sets out to investigate the history of depiction in ancient Greece.’
Claire Nesbitt
Dimitris Plantzos is associate professor of classical archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has written extensively on Greek art, classical culture and its modern receptions, and archaeological theory. Previous publications include Greek Art and Archaeology c.1200-30 BC (Kapon Editions) and (co-editor) A Companion to Greek Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)