Greek Art Books
By STAN PARCHIN
February 12, 2010
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The art, civilization and archaeology of Aegean and mainland Greece from prehistoric to Hellenistic times continue to inspire extensive research and the publication of quality color-illustrated studies. Suitable for students, scholars and enthusiasts, many titles listed here are special exhibition catalogues authored by world-renowned art historians, museum curators and archaeologists. Most are available in bookstores and through Internet retailers.
General
Carlos A. Picón, et al. Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.
Guide to the Getty Villa. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2005.
Lapatin, Kenneth and Karol Wight. The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2010.
Von Bothmer, Dietrich (ed.), et al. Glories of the Past: Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, 1-26, 85-197.
Cypriot Art
Hadjisavvas, Sophocles. From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism (exh. cat.). New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2003.
Karageoghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens and Marice E. Rose. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
Aegean and Cycladic Art
Doumas, Christos. Cycladic Art: Ancient Sculpture and Ceramics of the Aegean from the N.P. Goulandris Collection (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1979.
Getz-Gentle, Pat. Ancient Art of the Cyclades (exh. cat.). Katonah: Katonah Museum of Art, 2006.
Von Bothmer, Dietrich. Greek Art of the Aegean Islands (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979.
Minoan and Mycenaean Art
Cottrell, Arthur. The Minoan World. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979.
From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 B.C. (exh. cat.). New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2008.
Higgins, Reynold Alleyne. Minoan and Mycenaean Art (2nd Revised Edition). New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997.
Hood, Sinclair. The Arts in Prehistoric Greece. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Schofield, Louise. The Mycenaeans. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.
Archaic and Classical Greek Art
Athens-Sparta (exh. cat.). New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2006.
Buitron-Oliver, Diana, et al. The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, the Fifth Century B.C. (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992.
Grossman, Janet Burnett. Greek Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
Neils, Jennifer and John H. Oakley, et al. Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (exh. cat.). Hanover: The Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2003.
Hellenistic Art
Arnold-Biucchi, Carmen. Alexander's Coins and Alexander's Image (exh. cat.). Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Dreyfus, Renée and Ellen Schraudolph (eds.), et. al. Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar (exh. cat.). San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996.
Pandermalis, Dimitrios. Alexander the Great: Treasures from an Epic Age of Hellenism (cat. cat.). New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2004.
Yalouris, Nicholas, et al. The Search for Alexander: An Exhibition (exh. cat.). Boston: New York Graphic Society (1980).
Jewelry
Deppert-Lippitz, Barbara, et al. Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1996.
Williams, Dyfri and Jack Ogden. Greek Gold: Jewelry of the Classical World (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994.
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