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37%OFFElaine K. Gazda (Ed.) - The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome) - 9780472111893 - V9780472111893
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The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome)

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Description for The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome) Hardcover. .
All too often, museums throughout the world label their Roman sculpture and wall paintings as "Roman copy after a Greek original." In this book, Elaine K. Gazda and the contributors question the often too simplistic, deeply ingrained thinking that underlies this view of the relationship between Greek and Roman art.

Examining the problems associated with such thinking by situating them within a broad chronological framework, The Ancient Art of Emulation calls attention to many of the sources underlying traditional ingrained prejudices. The essays in this book underscore the need, in the case of Roman art, to distinguish more clearly ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Series
The Papers & Monographs of the American Academy in Rome
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472111893
SKU
V9780472111893
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