Author: Colledge, Malcolm A.R.
Title: The Art of Palmyra
Description: Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1976. Hardcover. Pale green cloth/boards. Gilt lettering. Illus. dj with pale blue spine and black lettering. Demco Crystaljac cover. 320 pp. with 150 bw images. From the series Studies in Ancient Art and Archaeology, edited by D.E. Strong. The first fully-comprehensive study of the art of Palmyra. The work covers religious, funerary, honorific, and monumental sculpture; art in private houses; artists' techniques; and iconography, all in detail. Included are a geographical and historical introduction; information on the plates, including style and character, foreign patronage; and a section on history and place, with the appendices of classifications of funerary works and more. Colledge died in 2015 without knowledge of ISIS's destruction of his beloved Palmyra's architectural and artistic treasures. Good (art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks; boards have general wear/smudging/scuffing; textblock edges are lightly worn/toned/scuffed/smudged; clean, tight copy but with age toning to page margins.

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