Irving Finkel is curator of ancient Mesopotamian script

“This fascinating history of color in art is a real page turner

Intended especially for students

nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world

the Romans developed a vast and sophisticated society that would produce a lasting legacy for Western culture

The Life of Michelangelo van gogh book Irving Finkel is curator ofGiorgio Vasari The fame and influence of Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) were as immediate as they were unprecedented. It is not surprising, therefore, that he was the only living artist Giorgio Vasari included in the first edition of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1550. Revised and expanded in 1568, Vasaris monumental work comprises more than two hundred biographies; for centuries it has been