Greek Art Thames & Hudson

John Boardman has updated his classic account of one of the most popular historicartistic traditions among Western audiences. In the twenty years since the last editionwas released, valuable evidence has come to light which has dramatically enhancedour understanding of the art of this ancient civilization. We now know conclusively thatGreeks in fact lavished their sculptures with realistic colour paint, and also worked with awealth of other materials on a major scale, including wood and precious metals, provingthat our view of `classic' pure white marble of the age is a Renaissance construction.We can identify the work of individual artists, and schools of artists, and have a clearerpicture than ever of how art and artistic ideas travelled throughout the Greek world.