Library of Celsus

Library of CelsusA black and white print of the Library of Celsus at Ephesus, in western Anatolia the reconstructed facade of one of the great libraries of the Roman world, built around 117 AD by Tiberius Julius Aquila in memory of his father, Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, a Roman senator and former proconsul of Asia. The library was, in its day, the third largest collection of books in the ancient world after the great libraries of Alexandria and Pergamum and

classical composition — into children's books

A print of a Greek temple fresco in the tradition of the Roman wall paintings recovered from Pompeii

elaborate armour and the decorative ornament of the military attribute

from Caracci onward

Jason built the ship Argo

In Roman domestic painting it was read as a tableau of reconciled opposites — love and war

This line art distils the hero down to a single graphic gesture — mythology as emblem

What remains

through that

300 years the largest dome of any kind built by human hands

The Hydra was a venomous serpent born of Typhon and Echidna that lived in the lake of Lerna in the Argolid

This statue