Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis
Classical Greece is rebuilt in the maps of Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis, the companion to Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's account of...
Read moreClassical Greece is rebuilt in the maps of Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis, the companion to Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's account of an imagined journey through the ancient Greek world. The examples, dated 1790 to 1832, include work by Barbié du Bocage and later Tardieu editions. Regional maps cover Thessaly, Boeotia, Arcadia and the Aegean, and detailed plans examine Athens, Sparta, Delphi and the battlefields of Marathon and Salamis. The prints turn to temples, costume, musical instruments, coins and domestic objects, reconstructions drawn from scholarship long after antiquity.
Classical Greece is rebuilt in the maps of Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis, the companion to Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's account of an imagined journey through the ancient Greek world. The examples, dated 1790 to 1832, include work by Barbié du Bocage and later Tardieu editions. Regional maps cover Thessaly, Boeotia, Arcadia and the Aegean, and detailed plans examine Athens, Sparta, Delphi and the battlefields of Marathon and Salamis. The prints turn to temples, costume, musical instruments, coins and domestic objects, reconstructions drawn from scholarship long after antiquity.