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Art and archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2025

Shelley Hales
Shelley Hales*
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The first two books of this review are part of the Bloomsbury ‘Cultural History’ series, which has now been around for several years. In this series, a cultural theme is explored over the course of a six-volume set that moves progressively through time from antiquity to the modern age. Each volume works as a stand-alone book exploring that particular era but, to facilitate cross-referencing, each volume is organized in the same way, with a standard sequence of chapters. It is a clever idea, but the two books here, on the theme of furniture and colour, show some of the problems of having to squeeze antiquity into categories designed for the study of later periods.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , April 2025 , pp. 150 - 159
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association

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References

1 A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity. Edited by Dimitra Andrianou. London; New York; New Delhi; Sydney, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. xv + 277. 40 colour + 41 b/w illustrations. Hardback £75, ISBN: 978-1-4725-7776-4.

2 Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia. 2023. ‘The Graphic Medium and Artistic Style: Thomas Hope (1769–1831) and Two-dimensional Encounters with Greek Vases’, in Meyer, C. and Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (eds.) Drawing the Greek Vase. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 84–111CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 A Cultural History of Colour in Antiquity. Edited by David Wharton. London, New York, New Delhi, Sydney, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. xiv + 256. 32 colour + 32 b/w illustrations. Paperback £25.99, ISBN: 978-1-350-45979-3.

4 François Mazois. 1813–1838. Les Ruines de Pompéi, 4 vols (vols 2–4 with M. Gau). Paris, F. Didot.

5 Semper, Gottfried. 1834. Vorläufige Bemerkungen über die vielfarbige Architektur und Plastik bei den Alten. Altona, Johann Friedrich HammerichGoogle Scholar.

6 Architecture in Central Italy. Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building. Edited by Charlotte R. Potts. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 224. 42 colour illustrations, 5 maps. Hardback £75, ISBN: 978-1-108-84528-1, paperback £27.99, ISBN: 978-1-108-93138-0.

7 Empire of Images. Visualizing the Conquered in the Roman Republic. By Alyson Roy. Berlin, Boston, De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xvii + 166. 48 illustrations., of which 10 in colour. Hardback £88, ISBN: 978-3-11-132534-7 (not currently available).

8 Dolia. The Containers that Made Rome an Empire of Wine. By Caroline Cheung. Princeton, Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 344. 75 b/w + 31 colour illustrations. Hardback £45, ISBN: 978-0-691-24300-9.

9 The Athenians and their Graves. By Elena Walter-Karydi. Berlin, Boston, De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xvi + 454. 5 colour + 231 b/w illustrations. Hardback £100, ISBN: 978-3-11-071497-5] (ebook also available).