The attraction that Greece exerts on travelers has been amply recorded through the centuries by artists. Inspired by the beauty of the landscape and the history of her people, artists recorded their reflections in watercolors, paintings, etchings, and drawings.
Compiled from private and public collections around the world, the art reproduced in this book serves as a guide to this luminous land. Artists represented include Nicholas Revett, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Carl Rottmann, James Skene, Edward Dodwell, Vicenzo Coronelli, Quatremére de Quincy, Edward Lear, and Vasilii Grigorovich-Barskii. A number of the selections relate to the events surrounding the War of Independence, and particular emphasis is given to the German painters of the 1830s and their pupils, who are comparatively little known in the English-speaking world.
Richard Stoneman is Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter. A senior editor at Routlege in London, he is the author of several books on classical antiquity, including A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece, published by the Getty Museum in 1994.
This title is out of print. Please look for it at your local libraries and/or used bookstores.
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