Author: Aruz, Joan (editor) et al.
Title: Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
Description: New Haven and London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Yale University Press, 2008. Softcover. glossy illustrated wraps w/ blue spine. 524 pp. 410 color illus. 50 BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2008-2009 exhibition that "brings into focus the cultural enrichment shared by civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean more than three thousand years ago during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Ages..This important publication documents the innovative art that developed in the context of a sophisticated network of trade and diplomacy. The art and cultural history of the period are discussed by more than eighty-five scholars who, in their international scope, mirror the times they bring to life in wide-ranging essays and in catalogue entries on each of the object included in the exhibition." (dj) The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 292 pieces. Includes maps, chronology, etc. VG (scuffs, scratches to wraps. creasing to front spine edge. small bump to spine tail.) .

Keywords: Classical Art/Antiquities ; Classical Art ; ;


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