The Learned Collector
Subtitle: Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: January 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780472114337
Subjects: Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms; Sociology; General; Art & Art Instruction; Social Science; Ancient Rome; History - Ancient & Classical; Ancient - Rome; Archaeology; Social Science / Archaeology; Antiquities, Roman; Figurines; France, Southwest; Marble sculpture, Roman; Mythology, Classical, in art
First sentence: VIVID DESCRIPTIONS of two diametrically opposed responses to mythological statuary in Gaul from the later decades of the fourth century have come down to us through accounts of Ausonius of Bordeaux and St. Martin of Tours.