GREEK SCULPTURE - THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

Here is a comprehensive and accessible account of the major art of a unique and crucial period. The fifth century BC in Greece saw the evolution of a style in the rendering of the human body that has influenced the history of Western art down to the present day. This handbook chronicles the development of Classical Greek sculpture and includes not only illustrations of the masterpieces of architectural sculpture from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and the Parthenon, but also many original works of bronze sculpture from that period, some of which have only recently been discovered.