The Temple of Athena at Assos - Rilegato

Wescoat, Bonna Daix

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0198143826 ISBN 13: 9780198143826

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2012

Riassunto

This volume presents a comprehensive investigation of one of the most unusual archaic Greek temples. The Temple of Athena at Assos, in modern Turkey, was built in a city that had no prior monumental tradition in either architecture or sculpture, so that the entire building constitutes an exercise in architectural invention. In this fully illustrated study, Bonna Daix Wescoat assembles for the first time a complete inventory of the architecture (documenting two phases of construction), presents newly discovered epistyle reliefs and decorated metopes, proposes a new reconstruction of the building, and situates the Temple within the formative development of monumental architecture in Archaic Greece.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Bonna Daix Wescoat is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University.

Contenuti:

• I: Introduction
• 2: History of the Building, its Early Visitors, and its Excavation
• 3: Building Materials and Technical Aspects of Construction
• 4: Description and Reconstruction of the Original Building
• 5: Major Repairs
• 6: Hellenistic Renovations
• 7: The Sculpture
• 8: Arrangement of the Sculpture
• 9: Significance of the Temple within the Development of Archaic Architecture and Architectural Decoration
• TABLES
• PLATES
• FIGURES

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0198143826
• ISBN 13: 9780198143826
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 360