Ancient Art

For more than two thousand years, ancient culture defined the development of Western civilization. This book tells about the creative achievements of Greek and Roman artists who created it: about bold innovations that went against traditions, about audacious thoughts, about the unstoppable desire to capture in stone or paint - for the first time in history - the harmonious forms of the human body and all the richness of its emotions.
Time has not spared ancient art, turning its grand monuments into ruins that amaze the imagination, while the others are reduced to a chaos of disjointed fragments. However, the surviving works and testimonies of eyewitnesses who described the vanished treasures allow us to judge the greatness created by the ancient Greeks and Romans.