Art, architecture and archaeology

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

Art, Greek
Art, Roman
Architecture, Greek
Architecture, Roman
Archaeology, Greece
Archaeology, Roman
Classical antiquities

In addition, researchers may want to perform general searches in CATNYP for the following classmark headings:

Call number “MT” for archaeology
Call number “MQM” for classical architecture
Call number “MGH” for classical sculpture
Call number “MCD” for ancient painting
Call number “MAH” for classical art
Call number “MAE” for general history of ancient art

Bibliography and reference

Amiet, Pierre, et al. Art in the ancient world: a handbook of styles and forms. New York : Rizzoli, 1981. MAD 89-19612.

Coulson, William D. E., and Patricia N. Freiert. Greek and Roman Art, Architecture, and Archaeology: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1987. MAH 88-925.

De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. An encyclopedia of the history of classical archaeology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. *R-BTGP 98-10083.

Finley, M. I. Atlas of classical archaeology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977. *R-MT 78-1585.

Henig, Martin. A handbook of Roman art: a comprehensive survey of all the arts of the Roman world. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. 3-MAH 83-1462.

Mathiesen, Thomas J. A. A Bibliography of Sources for the Study of Ancient Greek Music. Hackensack, NJ: Joseph Boonin, 1974. JMF 77-259.

Medwid, Linda M. The makers of classical archaeology: a reference work. Hackensack, NJ: J. Boonin, 1974. JFE 01-7228.

Onians, John. Classical art and the cultures of Greece and Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1999. 3-MAH 99-11540.

Pollitt, J. J. The art of ancient Greece: sources and documents. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 3-MAH 91-3705.

Pollitt, J. J. The art of Rome, c. 753 B.C.-337 A.D.: sources and documents. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960. MAH.

Preston, Percy. A dictionary of pictorial subjects from classical literature: a guide to their identification in works of art. New York: Scribner's, 1983. MAMZ 84-392.

Richter, Gisela M. A. A handbook of Greek art. London: Phaidon, 1959. MAH.

Sherrat, Andrew, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology. New York: Crown Publishers/Cambridge University Press, 1980. *R-MTD 80-3580.

Stillwell, Richard, ed. The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. *R-MTG 76-722.

Van Keuren, Frances. Guide to research in classical art and mythology. Chicago: American Library Association, 1991. MAH 91-8643.

Historical, methodological and critical studies

Beard, Mary, and John Henderson. Classical art: from Greece to Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 3-MAH 01-10120.

Betts, John H. ed. Classical archaeology in the field: approaches. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 2001. JFD 03-10311.

Biers, William R. Art, artefacts, and chronology in classical archaeology. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 93-8566.

Boardman, John. The diffusion of classical art in antiquity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. MAH 95-9181.

Boardman, John. The Oxford history of classical art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. MAH 94-1029.

Cohen, Beth, ed. Not the classical ideal: Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2000. JFE 01-5113.

Curl, James Stevens. Classical architecture: an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms. London: B.T. Batsford, 1992. MQM 92-17001.

Fleischer, Jens, John Lund and Marjatta Nielsen, eds. Late antiquity: art in context. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2001. 3-MAH 01-7673.

Grant, Michael. The visible past: Greek and Roman history from archaeology, 1960-1990. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. JFE 90-4777.

Laing, Lloyd and Jennifer. Ancient art: the challenge to modern thought. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, c1993. MAE 94-6325.

Pedley, John G. Greek art and archaeology. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. JFF 93-537.

Porphyrios, Demetri. Classical architecture. London: Academy Editions, 1991. MQM+ 92-7570.

Richter, Gisela M. A. Perspective in Greek and Roman art. London, New York: Phaidon [1970?]. MAH.

Sauer, Eberhard W., ed. Archaeology and ancient history: breaking down the boundaries. London; New York: Routledge, 2004. JFE 04-7354.

Sparkes, Brian A. Greek Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. L-11 2064 no. 22.

Stewart, Peter. Roman art. Oxford [England]; New York: Published for the Classical Association [by] Oxford University Press, 2004. JQE 04-452.

Tzonis, Alexander, and Liane Lefaivre. Classical architecture: the poetics of order. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1986. 3-MQM 86-4934.

Vassilika, Eleni. Greek and Roman art. Photography by Andrew Morris and Andrew Norman. Cambridge, U.K.; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 3-MAH 98-10605.

Educational resources

Brade-Birks, S. Graham. Teach yourself archaeology. London: English Universities Press, 1953. MT.

Kenyon, Kathleen Mary, Dame. Beginning in archaeology. New York, F.A. Praeger [1952]. MT.

Norris, Michael. Greek art: from prehistoric to classical: a resource for educators. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2000. JQG 01-363.