Dimitris Plantzos is associate professor of classical archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has written extensively on Greek art, classical culture and its modern receptions, and archaeological theory. Previous publications include Greek Art and Archaeology c.1200-30 BC (Kapon Editions) and (co-editor) A Companion to Greek Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)

‘…highlights the ways that the different mediums of visual culture, and particularly its manufacture, can be understood. Dimitris Plantzos’s glossy and colourful volume sets out to investigate the history of depiction in ancient Greece.’Claire Nesbitt

• PrefaceStudying Greek PaintingThe forgotten forerunners: monumental painting in the Aegean during the Greek Bronze AgeEarly Greek paintingThe fifth century: tetrachromy and shadow-paintingThe Greek gazeLate Classical to Early HellenisticHellenistic painting after AlexanderPainting in the Greco-Roman worldNotesBibliographyIndex

Dimitris Plantzos is associate professor of classical archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has written extensively on Greek art, classical culture and its modern receptions, and archaeological theory. Previous publications include Greek Art and Archaeology c.1200-30 BC (Kapon Editions) and (co-editor) A Companion to Greek Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)

‘…highlights the ways that the different mediums of visual culture, and particularly its manufacture, can be understood. Dimitris Plantzos’s glossy and colourful volume sets out to investigate the history of depiction in ancient Greece.’Claire Nesbitt

• PrefaceStudying Greek PaintingThe forgotten forerunners: monumental painting in the Aegean during the Greek Bronze AgeEarly Greek paintingThe fifth century: tetrachromy and shadow-paintingThe Greek gazeLate Classical to Early HellenisticHellenistic painting after AlexanderPainting in the Greco-Roman worldNotesBibliographyIndex