The Rediscovery of Greece. Travellers and Painters of The Romantic Era

Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era. 

It was the nineteenth century Romantics who rediscovered Greece. Through Greek art, literature and philosophy had nurtured European sensibilities since classical times, these traditions had been transmitted by intermediaries-citizens of Imperial Rome, or of Byzantine Constantinople, or of Renaissance Florence, 

Introduction by Sir Steven Runciman. 

With 173 Illustrations, 30 in colour.