Classical Greek Art & Sculpture

Finding Resources in BearCAT

To find sources on the Classical Greek Art, search with
these Library of Congress Subject Headings:

 

 

 

Ancient Greek Reference Material

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, ed. The Oxford History of the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. 938 Ox2

Grant, Michael, and Rachel Kitzinger, ed. Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner's, 1987. Reference Collection 938 C49 v.1-3

Hazel, John. Who's Who in the Greek World. London: Routledge, 2000. Reference Collection 938 H33

Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth, ed.The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Reference Collection 938 H78

Kirby, John T., ed. Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323 B.C.E. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Reference Collection 938 W89

Sacks, David. Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World. New York: Facts on File, 1995. Reference Collection 938 Sa2

Greek Art

Boardman, John. Greek Art, 4th ed. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. 709.38 B63

Boardman, John. The Oxford History of Classical Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 709.38 Ox2

Osborne, Robin. Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 709.38 Os1

Richter, Gisela M.A. A Handbook of Greek Art, 9th ed. Oxford: Phaidon, 1999. 709.38 R42

Spivey, Nigel. Greek Art. London: Phaidon Press, 1997. 709.38 Sp4

Woodford, Susan. An Introduction to Greek Art. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. 733.3 W85

Woodford, Susan. The Art of Greece and Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 709.38 W85

Greek Sculpture

Boardman, John. Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period, A Handbook. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. 733.3 B63

Brommer, Frank. The Sculptures of the Parthenon: Metopes, Frieze, Pediments, Cult-Statue. Translated by Mary Whittal. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. 733.3 B78

Buitron-Oliver, Diana. The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, The Fifth Century B.C. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1993. 733.3 B86

Coscia, Jr., Joseph, Elizabeth Milleker. Light on Stone: Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Photographic Essay. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003. 733 M58

Havelock, Christine Mitchell. Hellenistic Art: The Art of the Classical World from the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1970. 709.38 H29

Lawrence, A. W. Greek and Roman Sculpture. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. 733 L43

Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo. Classical Sculpture. Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, 1972. 733 R34

Stewart, Andrew. Greek Sculpture: An Exploration. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1990. 733.3 St4 v.1-2

Databases

ARTstor: This database is an online collection of more than 330,000 art images. ARTstor contains ten collections from art repositories found around the world. The collections are fully searchable by many different fields, such as title, creator, or location.

EBSCOhost Advanced Placement Source: This database is a collection of full-text articles from more than 6,100 journals. The articles are a mix of scholarly journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Advanced Placement Source contains more than 400 journals that focus on the humanities. EBSCOhost has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Grove Art: Grove Art is an electronic version of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (the 34 volume print version is found in the reference collection), and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke. Grove Art provides 45,000 articles with more than 130,000 searchable images linked to museum and gallery websites.

JSTOR: JSTOR is short for Journal Storage. JSTOR is a collection of more than 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years. This means JSTOR, for a particular journal, will have the journal's first issue up until about five years before now. Subject areas vary in JSTOR, but its main focus is on the humanities, with 17 journals that focus on Classical Studies.

Project Muse: Project Muse is published by John Hopkins University. Muse is a collection of more than 300 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current. Most of the journals’ coverage is five to ten years. As with JSTOR, Project Muse focuses on the humanities, with 5 journals that focus on Classical Studies. Muse has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Websites

Art History: Art history is maintained by Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, a professor from the Department of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. This site contains extensive links to museums, galleries, and material focusing on ancient Greek art. The links are arranged by subject.
URL: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHgreece.html

Art Resource: This website states that it is the largest archive of art images in the world. The range of material is vast, from prehistoric times to the present. The search function is extensive, where the user can search by artist, period, school, or region.
URL: http://www.artres.com

The photographs of the Acropolis and Parthenon are by Leo C. Curran found at the University of Buffalo site “Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome” (http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas). The “Vase Painting of a Hoplite” is a photograph by Marco Prins and Jona Lendering. The image is used with permission from Livius Archives (http://www.livius.org).