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Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret
Published by Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008
Seller: Frank J. Raucci, Bookseller, Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
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Pictorial Softcover. Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine, like-new, bright, clean, tight, collector-worthy copy sans flaws.Book published in conjunction with the 2008 -09 exhibition of the same name exhibited at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Text by Angus Trumbull and Marcus Aronson. From the Introduction: "This exhibition focuses on two versions of 'Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes,' each a large history painting based on a passage in Cicero's 'Tusculan Disputations' (v, 23, 64-66) by the loyalist expatriate American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820) who in 1792 succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) as President of the Royal Academy of Arts. West painted the first version in 1796-97, about a year to eighteen months after he fell victim to a remarkable fraud." ILLUSTRATED in full color photogrpahy with accompanying descriptive captions. 73 pages. GP12.
