This publication celebrates a major exhibition shown at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice in 1996 - a detailed study of Greek civilisation in the Western world. From the 8th century BC, Greece enjoyed an era of exceptional development and colonial expansion. New settlements sprang up along the west coast of Italy, from the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Tarentum southwards to Sicily. Prosperity came quickly to these Western colonies: art, architecture, politics, religion, literature and science flourished as a result of a dynamic ...
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This publication celebrates a major exhibition shown at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice in 1996 - a detailed study of Greek civilisation in the Western world. From the 8th century BC, Greece enjoyed an era of exceptional development and colonial expansion. New settlements sprang up along the west coast of Italy, from the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Tarentum southwards to Sicily. Prosperity came quickly to these Western colonies: art, architecture, politics, religion, literature and science flourished as a result of a dynamic fusion of cultures, marking the beginning of an age of intense creativity. This book contains visual and textual documentation of this formative period of Greek history. Based on the collection of artefacts in the Palazzo Grassi exhibition, it contains photographs and 60 essays to survey the subject in broad detail. Following a chronological path, the book traces the diffusion of Greek influence in the West, exploring every aspect of the new societies from town planning and economy to the evolution of the Greek alphabet; from the maritime adventures of the first Achaen navigators to the revolutionary thought of the first philosophers. Illustrated with examples of art and artefacts, this book provides insight into Greek civilization to show the foundations of Western cultural identity and the roots of our artistic inheritance.
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VG-with very light general wear; clean and tight. Green color-ill. wraps with white lettering. 800 pp. with color and bw images throughout. Text in English but with references in Greek throughout. Catalogue from the 14th exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, the amazing museum in the Venetian Classical style on the Canale Grande. Every imaginable topic about the Western Greeks is covered, from pre-history through the middle ages; the alphabet, politics, colonization, maritime navigation, numismatics, military, architecture, sculpture, pottery, painting, housing, philosophy, literature, Greeks and the Celts, and much, much more. Includes the catalogue of works on exhibit, a bibliography and an index of names. Big, heavy and full of endless information.
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Near Fine. Second edition, 1996. Softcover, 800 pp., heavily illustrated (in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light creasing to the covers. This heavy book might require additional postage.
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Physical description: 800 p. : ill., (some col. ), map; 30 cm. Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held in the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, March-Dec., 1996. Includes bibliographical references (p. 769-787) and index. Partial contents: The impact of the Greek colonies on the indigenous peoples of Apulia--The Greeks in the Po Valley--The encounter with the Bruttii--The Greeks in Sardinia--The encounter with the Etruscans--The Greeks in Gaul and Corsica--The Greek and Celtic worlds: a meeting of two cultures--Greek influence on Italic art--Greek artists in republican Rome: a short history of sculpture--The legacy of the western Greeks in the art of late antiquity and the Middle Ages--Catalogue of works on exhibit--Bibliography--Index of names. Subjects: Palazzo Grassi (Venice, Italy); Catalogs. Greeks Western Mediterranean Exhibitions. Civilization, Western Greek influences Exhibitions. Art, Greek Exhibitions Venice. Art Exhibitions. Art, Greek Italy; Catalogs. Genre: Bibliography. Exhibition catalogs. History. Illustrated. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.
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