Roman marble statues and reliefs in museums around the world: in McCullin’s accompanying words, ‘their broken beauty doesn’t take away from their impact; here is all the power and the glory of the Roman world at its most narcissistic and idealised’.
The Roman Conceit
(photographs)
£80.00
Edition:Hardback978191542354203/02/2025From a Bookshelf nearby
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Not only the art of Rome itself but of its provinces, including Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Greece and the British Isles, showing how Roman art both drew on and influenced the wider ancient world... read more
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A fine, close study of a city continuously inhabited for five thousand years, by an expert academic.
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LB could turn straw into gold. Here she describes chancing across the writings of a rather obscure Greek philosopher, and the wonders and illuminations that followed. Transformative.