Roman Art by Francesco Abbate

Roman Art

Edited by Francesco Abbate

Translated by A. J. Sutton

Octopus Books, 1972, ISBN 706400593, illustrated colour plates throughout, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, foxing to endpapers, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners (see photographs)

“The Romans were the master builders of the ancient world.  The story is one of great warmth and splendour, there are numerous brilliant examples of temples, frescoes, statues, columns and triumphal arches – also huge baths, theatres and aqueducts for the Romans were daring and accomplished engineers.  In sculpture the Romans followed the Hellenistic tradition – and built onto it a highly personal, realistic brand of portrait sculpture that was entirely new and wholly Roman in character.  And from the excavations at Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae, buried under an eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, have come superb wall paintings of Dionysian rituals, mythological scenes, and delicate still lifes and landscapes.
In this compact and authoritative guide more than a hundred excellent full-color illustrations take the reader through the art and architecture of six centuries in Pagan and Early Christian Rome and her provinces.”