Ian Jenkins
Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture
Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press in association with British Museum Press,
2007.
272 pp.; 100 color ills.; 150 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780674023888)
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No other museum in the world can match the British Museum for its incomparable collection of ancient Greek architectural sculpture. While the Elgin Marbles are its best known acquisition, it also showcases sculpture from two of the “wonders” of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, as well as that of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae and the Nereid Monument from Lycia. And who better to assemble...