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The Classical Tradition in Western Art

By Benjamin Rowland Jr

October 1, 2013

The Classical Tradition in Western Art by Benjamin Rowland Jr, published on October 1, 2013 by Art Literature Thought, presents an authoritative, coherent, and wide-ranging guide to the Western classical tradition, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures, especially in art, literature, and thought. Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard, and T. Rosemary Barrow trace the development of this tradition from its origins in the Greek Archaic period (c. 500-450 bce) to its transformation in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (c. 323-146 bce). This brief period is more than a mere transition from Archaic to Classical; it is a period of great innovation and change, during which the foundations of Western art and thought were laid.

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