Art in the Hellenistic Age

Acknowledgements Preface Maps Introduction. Hellenistic art and the temperament of the Hellenistic age Prologue. The phases of Hellenistic art 1. Royal iconography 2. Lysippos and his school 3. Personality and psychology in portraiture 4. The sculpture of Pergamon 5. Hellenistic baroque 6. Rococo, realism, and the exotic 7. Rome as a center of Hellenistic art 8. Style and retrospection: neoclassicism and archaism 9. Pictorial illusion and narration 10. Hellenistic mosaics 11. Hellenistic architecture: theatrical and scholarly forms 12. Alexandria and the Pharoah Appendices: I. The chronology of Hellenistic sculpture II. The ruler cult and its imagery III. Aspects of royal patronage IV. Bactria and India V. The tomb at Belevi Abbreviations Bibliography Notes Sources of illustrations Index.