Author: BRILLIANT, RICHARD
Title: ROMAN ART from the Republic to Constantine.
Description: London/Newton Abbot, Phaidon Press, 1974. 1st edition. Hard bound/gilt spineprint, 25,5cmx18cm, Dustjacket good. This book offers a perspective study of the principal aspects and developments of Roman art from its conception during the Republic to its ultimate transformation in late antiquity, around A. D. 300. Seperate chapters deal with architecture and town planning, triumphal monuments and imperial patronage, ornament and interior decoration in painting and mosaic, portraiture on coinage and in marble, stylistic currents and the characteristics of State art, patrician art, plebeian and provincial art, and lastly with the chronological development through six centuries. Selected bibliography, a chronological companion, 300 illustrations and index. 288 pag.

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