The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo

Ancient Inscriptions

By (author) William Stenhouse

Book cover: The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo

Extent: 439, 439 pages

Publisher: Harvey Miller

Subjects: Art & Art History, Classical Studies

Series: Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2002)

ISBN: 9781872501451

Price: $106.00

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The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo is a collection of more than 7,000 watercolors, drawings, and prints, today dispersed among the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the British Library, the Institut de France, and various other public and private collections. This series publishes works from the collections in two subject areas: A


Latin inscriptions found on buildings, tombstones, altars and votive monuments form a rich source of information for historians about classical Rome. By the early seventeenth century, ancient epigraphy had become a highly developed branch of learning, and the drawings of inscriptions preserved in the Paper Museum offer a fascinating insight into this earlier world of scholarship – in some cases providing our only record of the piece being illustrated. The drawings in this volume cover a wide chronological range and provide details about Roman law, the Roman army and officials of the Roman Empire as well as aspects of Roman life overlooked in literary sources.

  • By (author) William Stenhouse