The Art of the Romans
The Art of the Romans
Frederick A. Praeger Publishers | 1965 | ISBN: N/A | English | 280 pages | PDF | 40.2 MB
The term "Romans" is used here in its widest sense to include not only the inhabitants of Rome and Roman Italy, but all those peoples of the ancient world who looked to Rome as the center of their government and culture, from the time of her first territorial acquisitions outside Italy until the end of the fifth century ad. The monuments Professor Toynbee discusses are therefore drawn from as wide a range of localities as possible—eastern and western as well as central. The story of Roman art is as much the history of the impact of the provinces—particularly of the Greek and Hellenized and, to some degree, the Celtic provinces—on the homeland as it is of the penetration of Roman and Italian influences into distant countries.