The British Museum Book of Greek and Roman Art

The visual art of Greece and Rome are a tangible and accessible link with the foundation Western civilization. Successive generation of poet and artist have returned again and again to classical art for inspiration, and it was a passionate enthusiasm for Greek and Roman art that drove collectors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to mass magnificent pieces now in museums throughout the world.Burn, Lucilla is the author of 'The British Museum Book of Greek and Roman Art', published 1992 under ISBN 9780500276570 and ISBN 0500276579.