Pliny’s Natural History and the idea of history of art in classical antiquity.

Thursday, 23 October 2008

Pliny’s Natural History and the idea of history of art in classical antiquity.

By Miguel Ayres de Campos Tovar. Moreover, the path is not a beaten highway of authorship, nor one in which the mind is eager to range: there is not one of us who has made the same venture, nor yet one Greek who has tackled single-handed all departments of the subject Pliny, Natural History, Book I