Il mito dell'età dell'oro, un passato meraviglioso da recuperare ovvero un paradiso di beatitudine da raggiungere, fu spesso proiettato dall'inesauribile fantasia mitologica e letteraria dei Greci in luoghi reali o presunti tali posti ai limiti del mondo conosciuto. L'arricchimento progressivo...
Biblioteca Spagnola di Studi Classici, 4
2010, pp. 228
ISBN: 9788882655716
The role of individual sculptors in creating the ambulatory
capitals in the largest basilica in Christendom at Cluny
remains a mystery. The unresolved issue of individual creativity
leaves open three important questions about this
powerful abbey which controlled hundreds of monasteries
throughout Europe in the eleventh century...
Bibliotheca Archaeologica, 58
2019, pp. 124
ISBN: 9788891317452
The publication of the Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1521) was a determining factor in the development of Roman studies in the 16th-century. As the first collection of classical inscriptions from the city of Rome, it set the example for subsequent epigraphic corpora, and became an exceptional witness to Rome's antiquities before the Sack of 1527...
Bibliotheca Archaeologica, 63
2020, pp. 196
ISBN: 9788891319166
l volume offre il resoconto degli scavi e degli studi intrapresi tra il 2004 e il 2014 nella Villa del Casale di Piazza Armerina ad opera dell'Università "Sapienza" di Roma, con la collaborazione dell'Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore", del Parco Archeologico della Villa del Casale, della Soprintendenza dei Beni Culturali di Enna e delle università di Siviglia, Tarragona, Barcellona, Cadice...
Bibliotheca Archaeologica, 62
2019, pp. 782
ISBN: 9788891318701
At the beginning of the eleventh century in northwestern Italy builders created a comprehensive system of architecture, integrating the square edges of stacked bricks on the exterior with arches, vaults, and niches inside the wall. They used the continuous verticality of bands to plan and demarcate at ground level the placement and spacing of these dynamic structures intended to...
Bibliotheca Archaeologica, 56
2017, pp. 130
ISBN: 9788891312532
Their size never exceeds that of a small table, and, in thickness, they rarely are so thick as the drinking cups mentioned above. Their brightness has no intensity, they are shiny rather than brilliant. But what is really valuable is the variety of colours, since their veins repeatedly turn purple...
Bibliotheca Archaeologica, 54
2016, pp. 210
ISBN: 9788891309976