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Linnea H. Wren and David J. Wren, eds.
Perspectives on Western Art: Source Documents and Readings from the Ancient Near East through the Middle Ages.
Published New York: Harper and Row, 1987.
Series: Icon Editions.
ISBN 0064301540;
ISBN-13: 9780064301541.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 152x228x24mm.
Page count: xviii,302pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs on the covers, and a little wear at the edges and corners, but overall doesn’t look heavily used; the spine is not creased from reading; a previous owner’s gift inscription on the half-title page, but elsewhere the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £12.00
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Weight without packaging: 496g.

How to order this book

The extracts in this anthology are not taken from technical works on art but rather from other texts (historical, religious, literary, etc.), and are chosen to contextualise the contemporary ideas, beliefs and concerns behind specific works.

Contents: Art of the ancient Near East; Art of Egypt; Art of the Aegean; Art of Greece; Etruscan art; Roman art; Early Christian, Byzantine & Islamic art; Early medieval art; Romanesque art; Gothic art.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 7pp
Index: yes

See also | Art history |
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