The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
Continue Reading →This detailed analysis of a large, unified body of student drawings from the first public competitions of the Accademia di San Luca, held ...
Continue Reading →This book is the first in English devoted to Francois Duquesnoy, a central figure in seventeenth-century European sculpture, a rival to Bernini, and ...
Continue Reading →An extremely in-depth analysis of textual sources relating to the Greek concept of xoana, purported archaic wooden statues of gods. The book has ...
Continue Reading →This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, ...
Continue Reading →This book, a companion volume to Professor Pollitt’s The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (published by the Press in 1983), presents a ...
Continue Reading →Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ...
Continue Reading →‘Building in Words’ deals with the process of construction in Roman imperial literature from Vergil to the second century AD. The first part ...
Continue Reading →In 16th- and 17th-century Spain, sculptors and painters combined their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of ...
Continue Reading →Erwin Panofksy was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century. Panofsky modestly described his second annual Wimmer Lecture at Saint Vincent ...
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