From headdresses to sandals, from warrior's armor to priestess's robes, the authentic costumes of people from all walks of life in the Roman and Greek civilizations are here pictured comprehensively and clearly. Three hundred finely drawn, detailed engravings (containing over 700 illustrations) show just what was worn by the poets, philosophers, priests and priestesses, peasants, Bacchanalians, emperors, generals, Amazons, and virgins of a bygone age.Carefully copied from ancient vases and statuary by Thomas Hope (1770–1831), a British collector and designer, these engravings combine an unusual clarity of style with unquestioned authenticity. Their range, too, is unusually great, for besides the many plates on the costumes of the Greeks and Romans, there are representative illustrations of the typical dress of such other civilizations as the Phrygian, Egyptian, Parthian, Etruscan, and Persian.In addition, scores of engravings are devoted to such now-forgotten objects as ancient musical instruments (the lyre, double flute, pipes of Pan, etc.), Bacchanalian implements, articles of furniture, women's trinkets and jewelry, sarcophagi, altars, and other adjuncts to ancient life.Such c... [Read More]

The little ardour hitherto evinced among us in the pursuit of historical painting, may be partly attributed to the slender prospect which the artist has, of being ade- quately rewarded for so laborious and so difficult a pro- duction of the human intellect and hand, as an excellent historical picture. Of the more ordinary incidents of common nature, of the more humble forms of familiar life, every detail every where obtrudes itself spontaneously on the eye even of the unobserving multitude ; and therefore, in all times and places, every individual is more or less enabled to judge, in how far those homely models have been successfully transferred to the canvass ; and in all times and places, many will be found, desirous to possess and inclined to purchase the faithful representa- tions of these trivial originals, however easily produced. Landscapes and low-life groupes will every where meet a ready sale. But of the more elevated and striking events and per- sonages, only recorded in the page of the historian, or in the song of the poet, the more minute particulars are only thoroughly imprinted in the memory of a few more enlightened individuals. Vol 2 of 2... [Read More]

The little ardour hitherto evinced among us in the pursuit of historical painting, may be partly attributed to the slender prospect which the artist has, of being ade- quately rewarded for so laborious and so difficult a pro- duction of the human intellect and hand, as an excellent historical picture. Of the more ordinary incidents of common nature, of the more humble forms of familiar life, every detail every where obtrudes itself spontaneously on the eye even of the unobserving multitude ; and therefore, in all times and places, every individual is more or less enabled to judge, in how far those homely models have been successfully transferred to the canvass ; and in all times and places, many will be found, desirous to possess and inclined to purchase the faithful representa- tions of these trivial originals, however easily produced. Landscapes and low-life groupes will every where meet a ready sale. But of the more elevated and striking events and per- sonages, only recorded in the page of the historian, or in the song of the poet, the more minute particulars are only thoroughly imprinted in the memory of a few more enlightened individuals. Vol 1 of 2... [Read More]

About the Book Drama texts refer to the mode of fiction represented in the performance of a play in a theater, on radio or on television. Drama is viewed as a genre of poetry, with the dramatic mode being contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (335 BC). The term "drama" itself derives from the Greek word meaning "action”. In the English language the word "play" or "game" was a standard term used to describe drama until William Shakespeare's time. The enactment of drama in a theater, performed by actors on a stage before an audience is often combined with music and dance. In opera, the drama is generally sung throughout, whilst in musicals it includes both spoken dialogue and songs.Also in this Book Collections of American literature are anthologies that have been compiled in order to demonstrate the works of a number of American authors. During the 19th century there was a blossoming of US literature, including writers, poets and works such as: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter; Herman Melville, Moby-Dick and Billy Budd; Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson; Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer; Henry James... [Read More]

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Costume of the Ancients, Volume 1...

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