Pliny's Catalogue of Culture
Sorcha (, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at the University of Cambridge) Carey
Oxford University Press, 2003
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One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work reassesses Pliny's discussion of art, revealing how art is used to expound the Roman imperial agenda which dominates the work as a whole.
- ISBN-13
- 9780199259137
- ISBN-10
- 0199259135
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2003
- Publication date
- 2003-12-18
- Pages
- 222
- Dimensions
- 254x195x17
- Weight
- 700