Pliny the Elder on artworks brought to Rome

Abstract

In his Historia Naturalis Plinz the Elder wrote about the arts, among many other subjects. Passages on sculpture, painting and architecture can be found in several of his books, and more specifically in the books XXXIII � XXXVII dedicated to the nature of stones, metals and pygments. These passages have now been brought together and will be published as Plinije Stariji, O umetnosti, text selection, editing, translation, selection of reproductions, commentary and indices by Zoja Bojic. The publisher is the Zavod za ud�benike in Belgrade, and the book is scheduled for publication later in 2011. This is the first such translation of Pliny into Serbian, and the first such selection of Pliny�s texts, although several similar books have already been published in English.