American Journal of Archæology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1887, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book American Journal of Archæology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1887, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Archaeological Institute Of America and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1887, Vol. 3 Accordingly, for the next hundred years artistic activity in Rome and the products of artists of Greece working for the Roman market appear to have been chiefly reproductive, and this copying craft appears to have continued and to have been fostered in Rome ever after so that most of the marble statues constituting the collections of Europe are such capies or adaptations of celebrated Greek works miled into existence by this Roman demand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.