Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940
A New World of Latin American Antiquities
ISBN: PB: 9781606068724,
Getty Publications,
February 2024
336 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 91 colour illus., 27 black&white illus., 1 table, 1 map
336 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 91 colour illus., 27 black&white illus., 1 table, 1 map
This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues thr...
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55.00 GBP
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Codice Maya de Mexico
Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas
ISBN: PB: 9781606067888,
Getty Publications,
October 2022
96 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm
96 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm
An in-depth exploration of the history, authentication, and modern relevance of Codice Maya de Mexico, the oldest surviving book of the Americas. Ancient Maya scribes recorded prophecies and astronomical observations on the pages of painted books. Al...
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21.99 GBP
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Egypt and the Classical World
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9781606067376,
Getty Publications,
July 2022
202 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, colour illus.
202 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, colour illus.
From Mycenaean weaponry found among the cargo of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the Turkish coast to the Egyptian-inspired domestic interiors of a luxury villa built in Greece during the Roman Empire, Egypt and the Classical World documents two millennia...
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Underworld
Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting
ISBN: HB: 9781606067345,
Getty Publications,
January 2022
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, illus.
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, illus.
What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerber...
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60.00 GBP
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Maya Universe in Stone
ISBN: HB: 9781606067444,
Getty Publications,
November 2021
192 pp., 25,4x21,6 cm, illus.
192 pp., 25,4x21,6 cm, illus.
In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book...
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45.00 GBP
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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fascicule 10
Athenian Red, Figured Column and Volute Kraters
ISBN: HB: 9781606066010,
Getty Publications,
November 2019
162 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
162 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
Cataloging some hundred thousand examples of ancient Greek painted pottery held in collections around the world, the authoritative "Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum" (Corpus of Ancient Vases) is the oldest research project of the Union Academique Internatio...
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100.00 GBP
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After Vesuvius
Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri
ISBN: HB: 9781606065921,
Getty Publications,
July 2019
296 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
296 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the Villa dei Papiri was discovered in 1...
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55.00 GBP
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Beyond the Nile
Egypt and the Classical World
ISBN: HB: 9781606065518,
Getty Publications,
April 2018
360 pp., 29,9x24,7 cm, 322 colour illus., 16 black&white illus., 1 table
360 pp., 29,9x24,7 cm, 322 colour illus., 16 black&white illus., 1 table
From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one a...
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55.00 GBP
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Museum of Augustus
The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, The Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry
ISBN: HB: 9781606064214,
Getty Publications,
July 2015
352 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
352 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, I have built a monument more enduring than bronze – a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and built environment of ancient Rome are inextricably linked. This fascinating work of original scholars...
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55.00 GBP
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Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru
New Questions and Approaches
ISBN: PB: 9781606064351,
Getty Publications,
March 2015
224 pp., 25,6x17,7 cm
224 pp., 25,6x17,7 cm
This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic, or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts – t...
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42.00 GBP
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