Roman art and architecture

Thames and Hudson

1964

250 p.

World of art

Bibliography: p. 237.

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The Roman contribution -- Greece and Rome -- Towns : the beginning -- Italy -- Africa -- Near East -- Gaul -- Britain -- Buildings : temples -- Bath-buildings -- Forum and basilica -- Theatres, amphitheatres and circuses -- Houses -- Palaces -- Arches and engineering -- Aspects of sculpture and painting : portraiture -- Narrative -- Landscape -- Other aspects of Roman art : the Romans as collectors and connoisseurs -- Roman art on the Celtic fringe -- Roman art in the East.

The author discusses the many diverse qualities of Roman art in terms of its development within Italy and the Empire, but offers as well a perceptive and original account of the cross-currents between Rome and the East. His history is enhanced by hundreds of imaginatively chosen reproductions, which have been specially selected to accompany each section of the text -- brilliant and faithful photographs of Rome's great temples, palaces, circuses, viaducts, frescoes and scuptures, and even of the Romans' daily utensils and pottery.

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