By investigating the important cultural figures who were close to the painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey allow the reader to enter not only the Rome where he lived but also the Rome of antiquity, ...

In this fast-paced book, Elizabeth Cropper investigates the Domenichino affair and addresses the perennial debate regarding the precise nature of originality and of imitation.

Featuring more than ninety remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume is written by a team of leading international authors and presents a sweeping, penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in ...

Pontormo's Halberdier has long been controversial.

Co-published with the Philadelphia Museum of Art This book accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art upon the completion of conservation of Pontormo's famous portrait of Duke Alessandro de' Medici.

"Shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 5-December 31, 1988, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, January 21-March 19, 1989"--T.p. verso.

The description for this book, The Ideal of Painting: Pietro Testa's Dusseldorf Notebook, will be forthcoming.

In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing book reviews of "Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels.