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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> GISELA M. A. RICHTER’s three-volume Porruits of the Greeks was published by Phaidon Press in 1965 and a short supplement was issued in 1972. The book was praised at the time as possibly her greatest contribution to the study of Greek art and it has since become the standard work on the subject. Two years before her death Gisela Richter had prepared a single-volume abridged and alphabetized edition intended for the student and the general reader. This abridgement has now been revised and updated by R. R. R. Smith an archaeologist at the University of Oxford who specializes in Greek and Roman sculpture. The book now contains only those Greeks whose portraits can be identified with a degree of certainty it excludes private family portraits and portraits of Greeks of the Roman period. Hellenistic rulers although there are only a handful of definitely identified sculptured portraits have for the most part been retained; they are dealt with separately how. ever and are represented largely by the excellent royal portrait-coinages. The bibliography has been shortened and completely updated as have the main entries which give after a brief biography of the subject the main portrait types and the evidence for their identification; the reader is consistently referred to the original three-volume edition for older bibliographies and lists of copies. The Portraits of the Greeks will be essential reading for any art historian wishing to trace the evolution of the distinctive portraiture of the Greek world and for all students of Classical antiquity who are interested in knowing what characters in Greek history looked like or rather how they saw themselves. (MP)