About the Author

John R. Clarke is Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor, History of Art, at the University of Texas, Austin.

Reviews

"An exhaustive study of Roman wall painting, mosaic, and stucco decoration. . . . In case studies of 17 excavated houses throughout Italy, Clarke takes us through the changing styles and values in Roman life, from earlier, more functionally decorative art to the more extravagant (and at times gaudy) paintings of the Augustan age and beyond."--"AB Bookman's Weekly