Rebecca Salsbury

Edited and translated by Alex Danchev

and Venus Williams

- Material: Resin

The Best Photography Books of the Year: 2016

Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting jewelry gifts Rebecca SalsburyEdited by David Saunders Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious and cultural beliefs behind them. What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog