{"title":"Jeffrey Spier","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Spier’s works offer a compelling exploration of ancient cultures and their enduring influence on art and civilisation. His books delve into the intersections of history, art, and cultural exchange, revealing the rich narratives behind classical antiquity and its visual legacies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful studies that illuminate the dialogue between ancient societies such as Egypt, Persia, and the classical world, as well as the ways these histories have been interpreted through art. 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This volume gathers pioneering research from the Getty scholars' symposium that helped shape the major international loan exhibition \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World\u003c\/em\u003e (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGenerously illustrated essays consider a range of artistic and other material evidence, including archaeological finds, artworks, papyri, and inscriptions, to shed light on cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Late Period and Ptolemaic dynasty to the Roman Empire. The military's role as a conduit of knowledge and ideas in the Bronze Age Aegean, and an in-depth study of hieroglyphic Egyptian inscriptions found on Roman obelisks offer but two examples of scholarly lacunae addressed by this publication. Specialists across the fields of art history, archaeology, Classics, Egyptology, and philology will benefit from the volume's investigations into syncretic processes that enlivened and informed nearly twenty-five hundred years of dynamic cultural exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe free online edition of this open-access publication is available at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/publications\/egypt-classical-world\/\"\u003ewww.getty.edu\/publications\/egypt-classical-world\/\u003c\/a\u003e and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. 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Extending from the borders of Greece to northern India, Persia was seen by the Greeks as a vastly wealthy and powerful rival and often as an existential threat. When the Macedonian king Alexander the Great finally conquered the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BCE, Greek culture spread throughout the Near East, but local dynasties—first the Parthian (247 BCE–224 CE) and then the Sasanian (224–651 CE)—reestablished themselves. The rise of the Roman Empire as a world power quickly brought it, too, into conflict with Persia, despite the common trade that flowed through their territories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePersia\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the political, intellectual, religious, and artistic relations between Persia, Greece, and Rome from the seventh century BCE to the Arab conquest of 651 CE. Essays by international scholars trace interactions and exchanges of influence. With more than three hundred images, this richly illustrated volume features sculpture, jewellery, silver luxury vessels, coins, gems, and inscriptions that reflect the Persian ideology of empire and its impact throughout Persia's own diverse lands and the Greek and Roman spheres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. 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A formidable scholar, Rubens ingeniously transmitted the physical ideals of ancient sculptors, visualised the spectacle of imperial occasions, rendered the intricacies of mythological tales, and delineated the character of gods and heroes in his drawings, paintings, and designs for tapestries. His passion for antiquity profoundly informed every aspect of his art and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluding more than 150 colour illustrations, this volume addresses the creative impact of Rubens’s remarkable knowledge of the art and literature of antiquity through the consideration of key themes. The book’s lively interpretive essays explore the formal and thematic relationships between ancient sources and Baroque expressions: the significance of neo-Stoic philosophy, the compositional and iconographic inspiration provided by exquisite carved gems, Rubens’s study of Roman marble sculpture, and his inventive translation of ancient sources into new subjects made vivid by his dynamic painting style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. 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