Essays in the History of Art Presented to Rudolf Wittkower

Blue cloth over boards; Off-white dj.; Clear mylar covering; 421 pp.; BW photo frontispiece tipped in; Profusely illustrated with bw figures. 39 essays by various authors about various topics; Includes "The 'Birth of Venus' in Roman Art" by Evelyn B. Harrison, "An Irish-Latin Text on the Angel with the Ram in Abraham's Sacrifice" by Marion Lawrence, "Observations on the Role of Decoration in the Formation of Veronese's Art" by Cecil Gould, and much more. Full contents as follows: U and her neighbors in the west pediment of the Parthenon /; Evelyn B. Harrison --; The Birth of Venus in Roman art /; Marion Lawrence --; An Irish-Latin text on the angel with the ram in Abraham's Sacrifice /; Meyer Schapiro --; Hercules Agricola: a further complication in the problem of the illustrated Hrabanus manuscripts /; Erwin Panofsky --; Muses and liberal arts: two miniatures from Herrad of Landsberg's Hortus deliciarum /; L.D. Ettlinger --; Notes on a Sicilian manuscript of the early fourteenth century /; Hugo Buchthal --; The Image of pity in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme /; Carlo Bertelli --; The first fully illustrated Decameron /; Millard Meiss --; A kneeling Persian: migrations of a motif /; Otto J. Brendel --; From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolò Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi --; Ground plan and elevation in Masaccio's Trinity fresco /; H.W. Janson --; The St. John of Niccolò dell'Arca /; Xavier de Salas --; The birth date and a destroyed early work of Baccio Bandinelli /; James Holderbaum --; A Sibyl by Tribolo for the 'Porta Maggiore' of San Petronio /; James H. Beck --; A Majolica inscription in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme /; Ilaria Toesca --; Un modello antico e due disegni attribuiti a Michelangelo /; Maria Vittoria Brugnoli Pace --; The decoration of the Stanza della Cleopatra /; Norman W. Canedy --; Francesco Lisca's collection of antiquities: footnote to a new edition of Aldroandi /; Phyllis Pray Bober --; Observations on the role of decoration in the formation of Veronese's art /; Cecil Gould --; Reflections on seeing Holbein's Portrait of Erasmus at Longford Castle /; William S. Heckscher --; The allegorical portraits of Sir John Luttrell /; Frances A. Yates --; Entstehung und Blütezeit des Freundschaftsbildes /; Harald Keller --; A Christian triumph in 1597 /; Richard Krautheimer --; Il valore critico della "stampa di traduzione" /; Giulio Carlo Argan --; Profane love in Italian early and high baroque painting: the transmission of emotive experience /; P.A. Tomory --; Rubens' Het Pelsken /; Julius S. Held --; On Büsinck, Ligozzi and an ambiguous allegory /; Wolfgang Stechow --; Disegni del Mola a Stoccolma /; Edoardo Arslan --; The picture of painting in Poussin's Self-portrait /; Donald Posner --; Francesco Pianta's bizarre carvings /; Mario Praz --; Der Werdegang der Theresagruppe von Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini /; Hans Kauffmann --; Two drawings for sepulchral monuments by Bernini /; Anthony Blunt --; Una fonte "retorica" per il barocco a Torino /; Andreina Griseri --; Drawings by Alessandro Magnasco /; Janos Scholz --; Traccia per Francesco Ladatte, scultore torinese /; Luigi Mallè --; Giovanni Battista Maini /; John Fleming and Hugh Honour --; A conclusion and a reformation of the Roman baroque /; Anthony M. Clark --; Benjamin West's Death of Nelson /; Charles Mitchell --; Puget's fortunes in France /; Theodore Reff. VG (DJ. clipped; Very light soiling around page edges).…