He is the author of The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art I: Italian Painting

100 color and 20 b/w illustrations

and Ornella Salvadori

Architecture

Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater ACTIVE He is the author ofEdited by Mary Louise Hart The Art of Ancient Greek Theater considers the vibrant imprint that ancient Greek tragedy and comedy left on the visual arts of classical Greece. Theatrical performance as we know it originated in the mid sixth century BCE with choral dances held in honor of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine and patron of the theater. The great tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as the comedies of Aristophanes and