The Art of Antiquity - Piet De Jong And the Athenian Agora

By John K. Papadopoulos
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athen
Number Of Pages: 334
Publication Date: 2007-04-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 087661960X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780876619605

Book Description:
The archives of the American School excavations in the
Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolors
and drawings—well over 400—by Piet de Jong, one of the
best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological
illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes,
people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons
of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running
archaeological projects in Greece.
The aim of this volume is to bring these illustrations out of
the storage drawers and to assemble in color a representative
sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jong’s contributions.
Along the way, this book tells the story of the Agora
excavations and assesses their contribution to scholarship.
It includes essays by 16 scholars currently working at the
Agora, and surveys the entire span of the material they are
studying—from Neolithic pottery to the Late Byzantine and
post-Byzantine frescoes from the Church of Ayios Spyridon.

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