El arte clásico

In this book, Mary Beard and John Henderson introduce us to the ancient world of Greece and Rome as we had never imagined it, with its brightly painted sculptures and its buildings fully decorated with frescoes and mosaics. His analysis, revealing and exciting, goes through the delicate paintings of the Pompeian villas, adventures what the statues must have been like in all their chromatic splendor, reveals what was the meaning of female nudity in the classical world and surprises us with the usefulness of the monuments. Thus, it shows us how the artistic innovations of antiquity have today become the conventions of our culture.