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A more appropriate title for Colledge's book would be Parthian Art and Architecture, for, after
the initial chapter sketching the historical background, an approximately equal amount of�…

** I wish to thank Professors Emeritae Heleni Deliyianni-Dori and Chara Konstantinidi for
generously providing me with photographs from St. Paraskevē at Platsa and for our fruitful�…

The early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping
phases. The first phase,'Ordering', begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann's dismissive�…

A great number of sculptures of the Roman imperial period have come to light in the
Peloponnese. Portraiture, reliefs, architectural sculptures, sarcophagi, divine images�…

The first three chapters have the general title,�The Temple of Zeus at Olympia�; of these, the
first bears the subtitle,�The Project and its Fulfilment�. In this first chapter the author poses a�…

This book is based on the second edition of Die Parther. Die vergessene Grossmacht, which
was published in 2015 (first edition 2012) by archaeologist S. Winkelmann, a specialist in�…

The development of our present-day knowledge of the Parthenon sculptures can be charted
in the history of the British Museum's casts of them. Following their acquisition in 1816, the�…

modify. So 1 submit that, when they unexpectedly arrived (perhaps as a special gift?), the
architect had to redesign his facade to incorporate them. The columns had to be thickened�…

Of the two books under review, the handbook is a model of succinctness. It forms a sequel to
the author's Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period (1978), with its scope somewhat enlarged�…