Vittorio
Roveda has had a multi-faceted career. He gained his first doctorate in geology
and stratigraphy in the 1950s, but switched interests in the 1980s to studying
Asian art history. He obtained his second doctorate on the carved reliefs of
Angkor Wat in 2000. Since then he has written various papers on Khmer art and
spent several months every year in Cambodia.
The Carved Reliefs of Angkor Wat
Arts / Sale Books / Weatherhill Books
Paperback / Weatherhill / 292 pages / 7 x 10
ISBN 978-0-8348-0524-8 / January 2003
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The Khmer empire, which at its height covered the whole of present-day Cambodia and most of Thailand, flourished over 500 years. At its heart was Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, built during the reign of the Khmer king Suryavarman II, in the first half of the twelfth century....
