This was the first detailed catalogue of the ancient statuary collected in the British Museum. The Museum had only recently created its Department ...
Continue Reading βThe six chapters are headed, 1. Sicily; 2. Syracuse; 3. Agrigentum; 4. Selinus; 5. Γgesta [sc. Segesta]; 6. Posidonia, Or Paestum. The Appendix ...
Continue Reading βA treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans; the high ...
Continue Reading βThe third edition of the important ‘itineraries’ of the poet and antiquary John Leland (c.1503-1552), who made a number of trips around England ...
Continue Reading βThis influential work of 1818 by dilettante and critic Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) has stood the test of time. The study investigates the ...
Continue Reading βExcerpt: Whether we regard the Grecian attire of the head or of the body, it is precisely that of the earliest and rudest ...
Continue Reading βExceptionally comprehensive, easy-to-use guide surveys the evolution of historic ornament in architecture and the applied arts β from primitive ornaments of Oceania, Egypt, ...
Continue Reading βThe Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated: with the restorations of Palladio corrected and improved, to which is prefixed, an introductory preface, ...
Continue Reading βNo publication-date appears on the title page, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that the book was published in 1842 (although ...
Continue Reading βThe work describes the villa – or rather, fortress-palace – which the Emperor Diocletian built at Split (the ancient Aspalathos) on his abdication ...
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