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The book begins with a fine essay on the use of figures on Greek temples; together with Brunilde Sismondo . published by the College Art Association. Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus.

The book begins with a fine essay on the use of figures on Greek temples; together with Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway’s Sather Lectures on architectural sculpture, Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), this chapter should be required reading for all students of Classical Archaeology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 370 p. 130 b/w ills.

Contents include: Figure and temple in the Greek world until the beginning of the late Archaic period (ca. 700-530); Monumental architecture and colonization in archaic Sicily; Selinus : history and urban development of a. . 700-530); Monumental architecture and colonization in archaic Sicily; Selinus : history and urban development of an archaic Greek colony; The small metopes; Temple C and its metopes; Gods, heroes, and monsters : the cultural identity of a Greek colony in the West; Catalog; List of abbreviations. Color-photographic dj with white lettering. xvii + 352 pp. with 99 bw illus.

Clemente Marconi is the James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology at the . McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

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In this book, Clemente Marconi provides a new interpretation for the use of figural decoration in Greek temples of the Archaic period, through a study of the Archaic metopes of Selinus. The study of figural decoration on Greek temples has traditionally been identified with the broader study of architectural sculpture. At the same time, the original, articulated appearance of Archaic temples has been fragmented into a discussion of individual types. Marconi argues against both the typological approach and the tendency to investigate style and iconography as two aspects unrelated to the cultural and social background within which. At the same time, the original, articulated appearance In this book, Clemente Marconi provides a new interpretation for the use of figural decoration in Greek temples of the Archaic period, through a study of the Archaic metopes of Selinus.

Art and Archaeology - (. Marconi Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World. The Metopes of Selinus. Pp. xvii + 352, illus. John Griffiths Pedley (a1). The University of Michigan, jpedleyh.

Clemente Marconi; James R McCredie Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology and University Professor Clemente Marconi (5 February 2007). Cambridge University Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-521-85797-0. The monumental archaic roof of the temple of hera at mon repos, corfu". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. JSTOR The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.