The authors dismiss entrenched barriers between art and archaeology

The volume is brilliantly illustrated with paintings of landscapes and animals by artists such as Albrecht Dürer

125 color illustrations

including Marcel Duchamp

Science is as much a visual practice as a textual or quantitative one

Hercules Mosaic Floor Music Box pop-up The authors dismiss entrenched barriersA magnificent opus sectile in the Getty Villa's Temple of Hercules reproduces the first century pavement from the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Decorating a scenic pavilion overlooking the Bay of Naples, the original Roman floor was the first architectural feature discovered by workers excavating a well in 1750. Its geometric pattern of concentric circles of triangles is composed of yellow Giallo Antico and dark gray Africano marbles, with dark