etruscan followers classical monographs

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Greek Art
Nigel Jonathan Spivey

Phaidon Inc Ltd, 1997

I, Claudius and Claudius the God (Penguin Modern Classics)

1 review
Robert Graves

Penguin Books Ltd, 2001

Arguably the greatest fictional biography ever written.
In I, Claudius, Robert Graves creates the first person narrative of Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, known in Roman history as Claudius, and widely regarded as an idiot. Telling the story of his family's rule from the beginning of the Christian era until his death fifty years later, Claudius relates stories of his grandmother Livia, one of the most treacherous women in history, a woman who ...

Etruscan Art (World of Art)

2 reviews
Nigel Jonathan Spivey

Thames & Hudson, 1997

A survey of Etruscan art.
In spite of it's modest dimensions and only 216 pages, this book gives a rather exhaustive account of Etruscan art.It goes from well known art like the bronze Chimaera from Arezzo to a multitude of votive human terracotta heads (meant as offerings or gifts in temples). Discussing Etruscan art deals with mainly two problems. There are for example a number of wall paintings and decorated vases ...

The Micali Painter and His Followers (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology)
Nigel Jonathan Spivey

Oxford University Press, USA, 1987

The first full stylistic study of the Micali Painter, an ancient vase-painter, this book provides a catalogue of his surviving work (about 200 pieces) and an account of his development within, and influence on, archaic Etruscan painting. It clarifies the artist's unique contributions to the black-figure style that owed more to native imagination than to Athenian influence, and demonstrates the Micali Painter's vivacity, originality, and range ...

Panorama of the Classical World

3 reviews
Nigel Jonathan Spivey, Michael Squire

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2004

Admirable
This is an admirable book. Unlike most general histories of this kind (often meant as an introduction for a not very discriminating kind of reader and loaded with illustrations that are barely connected to the text) this is a book that takes its reader seriously. And that is a pleasure not always experienced. In ten thematic chapters it treats antiquity in a general, but sometimes also very ...

Put Out More Flags (Penguin Modern Classics)

10 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Penguin Classics, 2000

War's a funny thing ...
This is Waugh's satirical look at England at the beginning of WW II, with two characters in particular receiving his sharp and witty arrows of reproach: Basil Seal, a military big-shot wannabe who ends up relocating London slum children when the army rejects him; and Ambrose Silk, an aesthete, who gets a job with the religious division of the Ministry of Information representing Atheists. Silk ...