Amazon.com description: Product Description: One of the most intriguing works of art which have come down to us from antiquity is the Roman fresco known as The Aldobrandini Wedding . As in the first two volumes of his iconological studies, the author s critical review of previous interpretations reveals that none of them will stand up to scrutiny. By applying a modern art-historical method, he arrives at a fundamentally new interpretation which accounts for the many iconographical details which are a distinctive feature of The Aldobrandini Wedding . The painting turns out to be an idiosyncratic variant of a mythological theme that frequently crops up elsewhere in Roman art."