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Jacob Isager
Pliny on Art and Society [PDF ebook]
The Elder Pliny’s Chapters On The History Of Art

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Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager“s is the first full treatment of this subject for over a hundred years.

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Format PDF ● Seiten 256 ● ISBN 9781135085803 ● Verlag Taylor and Francis ● Erscheinungsjahr 2013 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2696423 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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