Author: Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"Records the discovery and contemporary re-creation of Greek furniture designs virtually ignored for more than two thousand years. T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, internationally known as a furniture designer, spent more than two decades studying and collecting from the museums of the world the design motifs found in the sculptured reliefs, vase paintings, terracottas, and bronze statuettes of classical Greece. From his research, he has re-created twenty-two models that cover the full range of Greek furniture from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C."--Dust jacket.
Furniture of Classical Greece
Author: Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"Records the discovery and contemporary re-creation of Greek furniture designs virtually ignored for more than two thousand years. T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, internationally known as a furniture designer, spent more than two decades studying and collecting from the museums of the world the design motifs found in the sculptured reliefs, vase paintings, terracottas, and bronze statuettes of classical Greece. From his research, he has re-created twenty-two models that cover the full range of Greek furniture from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C."--Dust jacket.
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"Records the discovery and contemporary re-creation of Greek furniture designs virtually ignored for more than two thousand years. T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, internationally known as a furniture designer, spent more than two decades studying and collecting from the museums of the world the design motifs found in the sculptured reliefs, vase paintings, terracottas, and bronze statuettes of classical Greece. From his research, he has re-created twenty-two models that cover the full range of Greek furniture from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C."--Dust jacket.
The Furniture and Furnishings of Ancient Greek Houses and Tombs
Author: Dimitra Andrianou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521760874
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In this book, Dimitra Andrianou analyzes the furniture and furnishings found in late Classical and Hellenistic houses, tombs, and inscriptions of ancient Greece. Questioning the wealth of images of furniture as portrayed on vases, she focuses on the actual remains of furniture found in houses; analyzes the symbolic nature of elaborate furniture used in every day and in the afterlife; discusses their types and uses in houses, tombs, and sanctuaries; and assembles their ancient vocabulary. The material evidence has been gathered from sites throughout the entire area of Greece that was ruled by the Macedonian kings and is supported by material and literary comparanda from contemporary neighboring sites.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521760874
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In this book, Dimitra Andrianou analyzes the furniture and furnishings found in late Classical and Hellenistic houses, tombs, and inscriptions of ancient Greece. Questioning the wealth of images of furniture as portrayed on vases, she focuses on the actual remains of furniture found in houses; analyzes the symbolic nature of elaborate furniture used in every day and in the afterlife; discusses their types and uses in houses, tombs, and sanctuaries; and assembles their ancient vocabulary. The material evidence has been gathered from sites throughout the entire area of Greece that was ruled by the Macedonian kings and is supported by material and literary comparanda from contemporary neighboring sites.
Furniture of Classical Greece
Author: Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
"Records the discovery and contemporary re-creation of Greek furniture designs virtually ignored for more than two thousand years. T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, internationally known as a furniture designer, spent more than two decades studying and collecting from the museums of the world the design motifs found in the sculptured reliefs, vase paintings, terracottas, and bronze statuettes of classical Greece. From his research, he has re-created twenty-two models that cover the full range of Greek furniture from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C."--Dust jacket.
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
"Records the discovery and contemporary re-creation of Greek furniture designs virtually ignored for more than two thousand years. T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, internationally known as a furniture designer, spent more than two decades studying and collecting from the museums of the world the design motifs found in the sculptured reliefs, vase paintings, terracottas, and bronze statuettes of classical Greece. From his research, he has re-created twenty-two models that cover the full range of Greek furniture from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C."--Dust jacket.
Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork
Author: John Hungerford Pollen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Studies in Ancient Furniture
Author: Caroline Ransom Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans
Author: Gisela Marie Augusta Richter
Publisher: London : Phaidon Press
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Describes and classifies all types of this furniture tracing their chronological development from Mycenaean times to the Roman Empire.
Publisher: London : Phaidon Press
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Describes and classifies all types of this furniture tracing their chronological development from Mycenaean times to the Roman Empire.
Ancient Greece
Author: Peter Connolly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199108107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Explores the history of the early civilization of Greece, as well as, their architecture, art, sports, poetry, drama, and music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199108107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Explores the history of the early civilization of Greece, as well as, their architecture, art, sports, poetry, drama, and music.
Ancient Furniture
Author: Gisela Marie Augusta Richter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Studies in Ancient Furniture
Author: Caroline L. Ransom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332591732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Excerpt from Studies in Ancient Furniture: Couches and Beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans This book was begun as an archaeological study. At the last, however, in the hope that it might appeal also to certain lay readers, some statements have been introduced which would otherwise be superfluous. The task has been a very different one from that undertaken by a person writing on furniture of the last few hundred years, because the facts have had to be gleaned and pieced together from comparatively meager sources. The nature of the ancient evidence is set forth in the Introduction. In chap, i is given a rapid chronological survey of the forms of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman couches; in this chapter some forms rare on the monuments are noticed which have had to be ignored later because of lack of further evidence in regard to them. All statements as to provenience, dimensions, etc., of the material published in the plates, and longer discussions which would have interrupted the main trend of the general chapters, have been relegated to a section of the Supplementary Matter, "Discussion of Plates." It would be useless to try to enumerate in all particulars the extent and nature of my indebtedness to previous writers. Some acknowledgments will be found in the footnotes, as well as references to some of the earlier results which it has not seemed necessary to summarize here. I have been most aided by the following treatises: Blumner, Technologist und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Kunstc bei Gricchen und Romern; Mau, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswnissenschaft, article Betten; Girard, in Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquites grecques ct romaines, article Lectus; Graeven, Aitike Schnitzereien aus Elfenbein und Knochen. Many references to passages in ancient authors have been obtained from the first three of the works just mentioned. For still other references I have to thank Professor F. B. Tarbell. Extensive independent foraging in ancient literature and inscriptions, and the discussion of purely philological questions apropos of beds, I must leave to Specialists in the fields referred to. This study would never have been attempted but for the material gradually accumulated in visits to various European museums. In the midst, however, of many other interests during student life abroad, my observations along this line were not always as detailed and accurate as I could now wish that they had been. It is also a matter of regret that the collections of bronzes in the Naples museum and in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome were inaccessible during my stay in Italy, and that I was unable to visit the museums in smaller Italian cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332591732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Excerpt from Studies in Ancient Furniture: Couches and Beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans This book was begun as an archaeological study. At the last, however, in the hope that it might appeal also to certain lay readers, some statements have been introduced which would otherwise be superfluous. The task has been a very different one from that undertaken by a person writing on furniture of the last few hundred years, because the facts have had to be gleaned and pieced together from comparatively meager sources. The nature of the ancient evidence is set forth in the Introduction. In chap, i is given a rapid chronological survey of the forms of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman couches; in this chapter some forms rare on the monuments are noticed which have had to be ignored later because of lack of further evidence in regard to them. All statements as to provenience, dimensions, etc., of the material published in the plates, and longer discussions which would have interrupted the main trend of the general chapters, have been relegated to a section of the Supplementary Matter, "Discussion of Plates." It would be useless to try to enumerate in all particulars the extent and nature of my indebtedness to previous writers. Some acknowledgments will be found in the footnotes, as well as references to some of the earlier results which it has not seemed necessary to summarize here. I have been most aided by the following treatises: Blumner, Technologist und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Kunstc bei Gricchen und Romern; Mau, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswnissenschaft, article Betten; Girard, in Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquites grecques ct romaines, article Lectus; Graeven, Aitike Schnitzereien aus Elfenbein und Knochen. Many references to passages in ancient authors have been obtained from the first three of the works just mentioned. For still other references I have to thank Professor F. B. Tarbell. Extensive independent foraging in ancient literature and inscriptions, and the discussion of purely philological questions apropos of beds, I must leave to Specialists in the fields referred to. This study would never have been attempted but for the material gradually accumulated in visits to various European museums. In the midst, however, of many other interests during student life abroad, my observations along this line were not always as detailed and accurate as I could now wish that they had been. It is also a matter of regret that the collections of bronzes in the Naples museum and in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome were inaccessible during my stay in Italy, and that I was unable to visit the museums in smaller Italian cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
Author: Nigel Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.