and he provides an account of attitudes toward books in Greece and Rome and surveys private and civic libraries in the ancient world

Christopher Bedford is research assistant in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Eileen Cowin

a fantastic hybrid human-animal hornblower with three dogs on a deer hunt

artists from Italy to Flanders and England to Germany depicted nature in their religious art to intensify the spiritual experience of the viewer

Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum creative learning and he provides an accountAlexis Belis Introduction by Christine Kondoleon The paperback edition of the Getty's dynamic new online collection catalogue. The mosaics in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum span the second through the sixth centuries CE and reveal the diversity of compositions found throughout the Roman Empire during this period. Elaborate floors of stone and glass tesserae transformed private dwellings and public buildings alike into spectacular settings