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Classical & Late Antique Art

Roman Museums
Selected Papers on Roman Art and Architechture

by Donald Strong

24 x 17 cm 368 pp. 87 illus
£130.00
ISBN 0 907132 75 8
Buckram Bound
Publication: 1994

This selection of nineteen papers by the late Professor Donald Strong is grouped thematically into four sections: general papers, architectural studies, sculpture, and acquisitons made by the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. The selection has been made by Dr. Susan Walker, who has also contributed a preface, an updated bibliography, and editorial notes where necessary. The initial study on the Romans and archaeology, a hilariously personal view of the subject, was Donald Strong’s inaugural lecture as Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at London University. His early death in 1973 was a great loss to the world of classical art and archaeology, and the publication under one cover of his papers on Roman art charts the development of a talent that made significant contributions to the subject in a comparatively short career.

Contents

Preface by S. Walker
The Romans and Archaeology
Roman Museums
Late Hadrianic Architectural Ornaments in Rome
The Round Temple in the Forum Boarium
Some Early Examples of the Composite Capital
The Temple of Castor in the Forum Romanum
Some Observations on Early Roman Corinthian
The Administration of Public Building in Rome during the late Republic and early Empire
Some Unknown Classical Sculpture (Hever Castle)
The Head of an Old Woman
Septimius Severus at Lepcis Magna and Cyrene
Roman Sarcophagi in Anatolia
An Etruscan Ivory Band
A Group of Roman Stucco Reliefs
A Fragment of a Marble Relief
Two Italian Seventeenth-Century Drawings of Antique Sculpture
Three Roman Silver Cups
A Greek Silver Head-Vase
A Lady Centaur
Additional Notes
Index