Arts of Mankind
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The Arts of Mankind an ambitious series of art history survey books founded in 1960 for the French publisher Gallimard by André Malraux
, who edited many of the volumes. Over 40 volumes have appeared to date; roughly half have been translated into English, as follows:
André Malraux
André Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...
, who edited many of the volumes. Over 40 volumes have appeared to date; roughly half have been translated into English, as follows:
- Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by André ParrotAndré ParrotAndré Parrot was a French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.-Biography:...
- The Arts of Assyria, by André Parrot
- The Birth of Greek Art, by Pierre Demargne
- Carolingian Art, by Jean Hubert, Jean Porcher and WF Volbach
- African Art, by André Parrot
- The Studios and Styles of the Italian Renaissance: Italy 1460-1500, by André ChastelAndré ChastelAndré Chastel was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance....
- Europe of the Invasions, by Jean Hubert
- Hellenistic Art 330-50 B.C, by Jean Charbonneaux
- The Arts of the South Pacific, by Jean Guiart
- The View Painters of Europe, by Giuliano BrigantiGiuliano BrigantiGiuliano BrigantiGiuliano Briganti Italian art historian.Born 1918 in Rome to Clelia Urbinati and Aldo Briganti. His father, a humanist, was an art connoisseur and dealer but also an art historian...
- Rome: the Center of power, by Ranuccio Bianchi BandinelliRanuccio Bianchi BandinelliRanuccio Bianchi Bandinelli was an Italian archaeologist and art historian.-Biography:A Marxist, Bianchi Bandinelli was descended from ancient aristocracy in Siena. His early research focused on the Etruscan centers close to his family lands, Clusium and Suana...
- Rome: the Late Empire, Roman art AD 200-400, by Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
- Early Christian Art: from the Rise of Christianity to the Death of Theodosius, by André GrabarAndré GrabarAndré Grabar was an art historian of Medieval and Byzantine art. Born and raised in Ukraine and educated in the Russian Empire, he spent much of his career in France and the US but wrote all his papers in French...
- Persian art, the Parthian and Sassanian Dynasties, 249 B.C. - 651 A.D., by Charles K. Wilkinson
- Nineveh and Babylon, by André Parrot
- The Flowering of the Italian Renaissance, by André Chastel
- The Golden Age of Justinian, from the death of Theodosius to the rise of Islam, by André Grabar
- The Art of Ancient Iran: from its origins to the time of Alexander the Great, by Roman GhirshmanRoman GhirshmanRoman Ghirshman was a Ukrainian-born French archeologist who specialized in ancient Iran.A native of Kharkiv, Ghirshman moved to Paris in 1917 to study Archeology and Ancient Languages...