Background
Lapatin, Kenneth D.S. was born on May 4, 1961 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Arnold Lee and Miriam Fink Shapiro.
(Since antiquity, the achievements of the Greeks in art an...)
Since antiquity, the achievements of the Greeks in art and architecture have elicited great admiration. From the Parthenon and the other temples on the Acropolis of Athens to the fabled palace of King Minos at Knossos on Crete to the walled city of Mycenae-home of the Trojan leader Agamemnon-Greek art and architecture continue to this day to fascinate visitors to Greece and influence Western aesthetics. This informative handbook traces Greek art and architecture from the third millennium to the first century B.C. Belozerskaya and Lapatin relate the rich development of styles, techniques, and motifs to the history of this period. The culmination of these developments in architecture, sculpture, and vase painting in the fifth century B.C. is illustrated in such masterpieces as the temples at Paestum in Italy, the sculptures of the Parthenon, the bronze charioteer from Delphi, and works of the Attic black- and red-figure vase painters. Also included in the book is a discussion of the spread of Greek culture to southern Italy and Sicily and the influence of Greek artistic traditions on Roman art. With more than three hundred illustrations, this book will serve as an attractive guide for students, travelers, and all those interested in ancient Greek civilization.
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(Composite statues of gold (chrysos), ivory (elephas), and...)
Composite statues of gold (chrysos), ivory (elephas), and other precious materials were the most celebrated artworks of classical antiquity. Greek and Latin authors leave no doubt that such images provided a centrepiece for religious and civic life and that vast sums were spent to produce them. A number of these statues were the creations of antiquity's most highly acclaimed artists: Polykleitos, Alkamenes, Leochares, and, of course, Pheidias, whose magnificent Zeus Olympios came to be ranked among the Seven Wonders of the World. Although a few individual images such as Pheidias' Athena Parthenos have been the subject of detailed scholarly analysis, chryselephantine statuary as a class, from the exquisite statuettes of Minoan Crete to the majestic temple images constructed by classical Greek city-states and imitated by the Romans, has not received comprehensive study since 1815. This book presents not only the ancient literary and epigraphical evidence for lost statues and examines representations of them in other media, but also assembles and analyses much-neglected physical survivals, elucidating throughout the innovative techniques, such as ivory-bending, employed in their production as well as the variety of social, religious, and political roles they played within the ancient societies that produced them.
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(This is an investigation into the true origins of the cel...)
This is an investigation into the true origins of the celebrated Bronze Age artifact, the Snake Godess.
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Lapatin, Kenneth D.S. was born on May 4, 1961 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Arnold Lee and Miriam Fink Shapiro.
Bachelor of Arts California, 1984. Master of Science, Oxford University, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1994.
Professor art history Boston University, 1994—2002. Curator department antiquities Jean Paul Getty Museum, since 2002.
(Composite statues of gold (chrysos), ivory (elephas), and...)
(Since antiquity, the achievements of the Greeks in art an...)
(This is an investigation into the true origins of the cel...)
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Member Archaeol. Institute of America, College Art Association.
Married Marina Gemma Belozerskaya, August 17, 1992.