Mortimer Wheeler — Roman Art And Architecture

Thames and Hudson 1979 Softcover, 250pp. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, the world-renoened authority on art and archaeology, contends that Roman art has suffered both from fallacious comparisons with Hellenic and Hellenistic accompllishments and from tendetious scholarship that abstracts it from the broad sweep of Rome's intellectual and political evolution. Here he rights these wrongs - in a thorough and lively examination of a subject which he is especially familiar: not only the Roman achievements in architecture, public works, and town planning, but the work of Romel's anonymous painters, sculptors, architects, silversmiths, and metalworkers, the unknown men who created so many lasting masterpieces for the city. Owner's Name inside. Nameplate on first page. Good.