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The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unlike much architectural ornamentation of other cultures, Greek sculpture was often integral to the building, not just as decoration, and could not be removed without affecting the integrity of the building structure. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the significance of Greek architectural sculpture. Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, a world-class authority on ancient Greek sculpture, provides a highly informative tour of many dimensions of Greek public buildings--especially temples, tombs, and treasuries--in a text that is at once lucid, accessible, and authoritative.Ridgways pragmatism and common sense steer us tactfully and clearly through thickets of uncertainty and scholarly disagreement. She refers to a huge number of monuments, and documents her discussions with copious and up-to-date bibliographies. This book is sure to be acknowledged at once as the standard treatment of its important topic.

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title Prayers in Stone Greek Architectural Sculpture Ca 600-100 BCE - photo 1

title:Prayers in Stone : Greek Architectural Sculpture Ca. 600-100 B.C.E. Sather Classical Lectures ; V. 63
author:Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:0520215567
print isbn13:9780520215566
ebook isbn13:9780585321585
language:English
subjectSculpture, Greek--Themes, motives, Sculpture, Hellenistic--Themes, motives, Relief (Sculpture), Greek--Themes, motives, Relief (Sculpture), Hellenistic--Themes, motives, Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Greece--Themes, motives.
publication date:1999
lcc:NA3350.R53 1999eb
ddc:733/.3
subject:Sculpture, Greek--Themes, motives, Sculpture, Hellenistic--Themes, motives, Relief (Sculpture), Greek--Themes, motives, Relief (Sculpture), Hellenistic--Themes, motives, Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Greece--Themes, motives.
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Prayers in Stone
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Prayers in Stone Greek Architectural Sculpture c 600-100 BCE - image 2 Sather Classical Lectures
Volume Sixty-Three
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Prayers in Stone
Greek Architectural Sculpture
Ca. 600-100 B.C.E.
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
The Sather Classical Lectures 1996
Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles California - photo 3
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
1999 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo, 1929
Prayers in stone : Greek architectural sculpture ca. 600100
B.C.E. / by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.
p. cm.(Sather classical lectures : v. 63)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-21556-7 (alk. paper)
1. Sculpture, GreekThemes, motives. 2. Sculpture, Hellenistic
Themes, motives. 3. Relief (Sculpture), GreekThemes, motives.
4. Relief (Sculpture), HellentisticThemes, motives. 5. Decoration
and ornament, ArchitecturalGreeceThemes, motives. I. Title.
II. Series.
NA3350.R53 1999
733'.3dc21 98-3583
CIP
Manufactured in the United States of America
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.481984.
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Contents
Preface
vii
Glossary
xi
1. Why: The Advantages and Limitations of Studying Greek Architectural Sculpture
1
2. What: The Issue of Definition
36
3. Where: The Issue of Visibility
74
4. How: The Role of Color
103
5. When: The Changing Meaning
143
6. Who: Architect, Sculptor, Patron
184
Conclusions
220
List of Maps and Illustrations
223
List of Figures
227
List of Color Plates
229
Bibliography
231
Index of Places
251

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Preface
When, in March 1993, I accepted the honor of delivering the Sather Lectures in 1996 and selected as a topic a discussion of Greek architectural sculpture, I was unaware that the Berkeley Campus offered such a variety of examples of plastic embellishment on its buildingsfrom moldings to various types of capitals, from wall reliefs to akroteria and finials. It was therefore my great pleasure to begin each one of my talks with a Berkeley structure, which allowed me to make a specific point in keeping with the topic for that evening. I regret that I cannot include all such references in the written version of my presentation, which is meant for a wider readership, many of whom would beas I wasunfamiliar with the Berkeley environment. I want, however, to acknowledge what a great source of inspiration my stay at the University has been, and what a delight I have derived from its magnificent grounds and varied buildings. (And, yes, the weather was beautiful almost all the time!)
A person who pointed me in the direction of pertinent examples and was of great help in producing slides that illustrated them is Kathryn Bothos, head curator of the visual resources collection for the Art History Department at Berkeley. She and her staffJan Eklund, Gloria Garaventa, Laura Gobbi, and the photographer Julie Wolfwere invaluable in their unstinting assistance. The success of my verbal presentations was almost totally dependent on their good offices, since I use images as mnemonic devices and can only "speak to the slides" as I show them.
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