John Beckwith   Early Christian and Byzantine Art (Yale UP). Illustrated study placing Byzantine art within a wider context.

 

William R. Biers   Archeology of Greece: An Introduction (Cornell UP, US). A 1990s-revised and excellent standard text.

John Boardman   Greek Art (Thames & Hudson, UK). A very good concise introduction: part of the "World of Art" series.

Reynold Higgins   Minoan and Mycenaean Art (Thames & Hudson). A clear, well-illustrated round-up.

Sinclair Hood   The Arts in Prehistoric Greece (Penguin; Yale UP). A sound introduction to the subject.

Roger Ling   Classical Greece (Phaidon, UK). Another useful illustrated introduction.

Colin Renfrew   The Cycladic Spirit (Thames & Hudson; Abrams). A fine, illustrated study of the meaning and purpose of Cycladic artefacts.

Gisela Richter   A Handbook of Greek Art (Phaidon; Da Capo). An exhaustive survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece.

William St Clair   Lord Elgin and the Marbles (Oxford UP). The latest word on the vicissitudes of the statues whose ownership remains hotly disputed.

R.R.R. Smith   Hellenistic Sculpture (Thames & Hudson). A modern reappraisal of the art of Greece under Alexander and his successors.

David Talbot Rice   Art of the Byzantine Era (Thames & Hudson). Talbot Rice was, with Robert Byron, one of the pioneering scholars in the "rediscovery" of Byzantine art; this is an accessible illustrated study.

Peter Warren   The Aegean Civilizations (Phaidon, o/p; P. Bedrick Books, o/p). An illustrated account of the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures.