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Ingrid D. Rowland.
From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance.
Published New York: New York Review Books, 2005.
ISBN 1590171233;
ISBN-13: 9781590171233.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 145x215x22mm.
Page count: xxv,294pp plus 11 pages of colour and 5 of monochrome plates.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild general wear, but in overall doesn’t look heavily used.


This item £9.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $24.95]
Weight without packaging: 521g.

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Collects 17 previously published essays.

Contents:
The Renaissance revealed;
Born again in Rome;
Some Paradise;
The nervous republic;
Character witnesses;
Botticelli — the way to the light;
The eyes of Leonardo;
The genius of Parma;
Titian — sacred & profane;
Titian — from Heaven to Arcadia;
The real Caravaggio;
Going for Baroque;
Through a glass, darkly;
Star trek;
Mother of the world;
Eastern glory;
When in Rome…

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