ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE (Praeger World of Art Paperbacks)
by Wheeler, Sir Mortimer
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- Condition
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About This Item
Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1965, 1965. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, softcover, pages beginning to tan at edges else VG in brown pictorial wraps. 250 pages including index. Author was world reknown authority on art and archaeology; he contends that Roman art has suffered both from fallacious comparisons with Hellenic and Hellenistic art -- here he examines Roman architecture, public works, town planning, and also painters, sculptors, architects, silversmiths, metalworkers and others who created masterpieces in Rome.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53170
- Title
- ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE (Praeger World of Art Paperbacks)
- Author
- Wheeler, Sir Mortimer
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1965
- Date Published
- 1965
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- Pictorial Wraps
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- VG
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
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