Sculptured figural motifs were an important component of many
buildings in the Hellenistic world, and their frequent relegation
to subsidiary status has, until now, left our knowledge of both
Hellenistic architecture and sculpture incomplete. In Hellenistic
Architectural Sculpture, Pamela A. Webb examines the full range of
figural embellishment - from simple to complex, on large monuments
as well as on more obscure ones, and in the major population
centers as well as the smaller cities, sanctuaries, and isolated
areas throughout western Anatolia and the Aegean islands. In this
book, the first to focus specifically on the figural adornment of
Hellenistic architecture, Webb provides extensive information about
the chronology and interpretation of figural motifs adorning
religious, civic, commercial, commemorative, and domestic
constructions. She finds that figural sculptures adorn structures
at every level from the ground to the roof, and display a wide
variety of motifs on such architectural elements as columns, walls,
entablatures, pediments, and cornices. 142 illustrations of
Hellenistic monuments - temples, altars, cult buildings, heroa,
theaters, bouleuteria, stoas, gymnasia, and houses - and their
sculptured adornment complement the author's descriptions and
analyses. The book features an extensive bibliography, citing
resources from the early nineteenth century to the most recent
publications.
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