Arte e architettura romana

With a text by one of the best-known archeologists of the 20th century and a lavish set of illustrations, the volume offers a useful key to the understanding of the aspects and conditions of the evolution of Roman art and architecture, revealing the exceptional character of its historical development and the cultural and social peculiarities that differentiated the Roman world from classical Greek and Hellenistic civilization and from the other ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean basin.


Sir Mortimer Wheeler studied in Yorkshire and London. He was director of the National Museum of Wales, curator of the London Museum and director of the University of London's Institute of Archaeology. Later he was made director-general of archaeology for the government of India and then served as archeological adviser to the government of Pakistan. He was also president of the Society of Antiquaries and secretary of the British Academy. He published numerous works, including Roman Africa in Colour, Early India and Pakistan, Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond, Archaeology from the Earth and the autobiographical volume My Archaeological Mission in India and Pakistan. In addition he was editorial director of New Aspects of Antiquity, a series of monographs on archeological subjects. He died in 1976.