An investigation on the evolution of Roman painting from its genesis to the Byzantine period.
The catalogue of the traveling exhibition seen in Rimini and Genoa in 1998 offers an investigation on the evolution of Roman painting from its genesis to the Byzantine period. A chronological and stylistic itinerary that clearly reveals, at times with materials drawn from entire environments, the principal phases of a development extending from the Italic origins to the time in which other “pictorial cultures”, especially from the east, reached the area of activity and diffusion of Roman painting, altering its essential coordinates. The volume also features in-depth study of painting techniques, and of the appearance of “exceptional moments” such as that of painted sculpture, portraiture and painted inscriptions.