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The Art of Antiquity. Piet De Jong and the Athenian Agora.
John K. Papadopoulos
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Description for The Art of Antiquity. Piet De Jong and the Athenian Agora.
Paperback. The archives of the American School of Classical Studies excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings - well over 40 - by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century. Num Pages: 334 pages, 241 col and b/w figs. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 241 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1728.
The archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings (well over 400) by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes, people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running archaeological projects in Greece. This volume brings these illustrations out of the storage drawers and assembles in colour a representative sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jong's contributions. Along the way, the book tells the story ... Read more
The archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings (well over 400) by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes, people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running archaeological projects in Greece. This volume brings these illustrations out of the storage drawers and assembles in colour a representative sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jong's contributions. Along the way, the book tells the story ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
American School of Classical Studies at Athens United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Princeton, United States
ISBN
9780876619605
SKU
V9780876619605
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About John K. Papadopoulos
John K. Papadopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Classics and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.
Reviews for The Art of Antiquity. Piet De Jong and the Athenian Agora.
This volume is a treasure-trove of beautiful drawings. It is more than a record of the finds from the ASCSA excavations from the 1930s; it is a way of seeing and observing the objects.[...]Over the decades these drawings have brought the Athenian Agora to vivid life
and will continue to do so through this collection.'
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn ... Read more
and will continue to do so through this collection.'
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn ... Read more