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Greek Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa

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Greek Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa - Grossman, Janet
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Much of the sculpture created in ancient Greece that has survived is funerary in nature. These markers commemorating the dead were traditionally placed along roads near the entrances to cities, where they could be seen by all. Although the monuments vary greatly in style, quality, and elaboration, they reach across the millennia speaking the universal language of human grief. This illustrated catalogue presents fifty-nine Greek funerary monuments in the Antiquities collection of the Getty Museum. Spanning the Classical and ...

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Greek Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa 2002, Oxford University Press, USA, Los Angeles, CA

ISBN-13: 9780892366125

Hardcover