The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora

Author:   John K. Papadopoulos
Publisher:   American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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9780876619605


Pages:   334
Publication Date:   25 June 2007
Format:   Paperback
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The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora


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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 of the Agora excavations and assesses their contribution to scholarship. It includes essays by 15 scholars currently working at the Agora, and surveys the entire span of the material they are studying, from Neolithic pottery to the Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine frescoes from the Church of Ayios Spyridon.

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Author:   John K. Papadopoulos
Publisher:   American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Imprint:   American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Dimensions:   Width: 24.10cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.728kg
ISBN:  

9780876619605


ISBN 10:   087661960
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   25 June 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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.' -- David Gill BMCR 04/22/2008


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.' -- David Gill Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04/22/2008


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John K. Papadopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Classics and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

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