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Antiquity Restored Essays on the Afterlife of the Antique Preface by Sir Ernst Gombrich SEYMOUR HOWARD 1990 290 x 222 mm, 344 pages 301 b&w illustrations ISBN 3-900731-11-X Price : 119.00 EUR Add to cart |
These essays trace the perception of classical art from antiquity to the present day. The articles focus on the role of restorations and patronage in the development of modern taste, and deal also with the social, psychological, and formal, or iconological, aspects of the response to classical imagery.