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European Art since the Renaissance

Selected Studies Vol II

by Otto Kurz

24 x 17 cm 272 pp. 63 illus.
£150.00
Publication: 1982
ISBN 0 907132 07 3
Buckram Bound

This second volume of Professor Kurz's studies completes the comprehensive selection in Vol. I with a further thirty articles, published over forty years, and showing the extraordinary breadth of the author's interests. It begins with eight studies on Classical, Byzantine and Islamie art, continues to the Renaissanee and Baroque in Italy and Northern Europe, and ends with an entertaining section on the restoration, misattribution and faking of works of art.
In these two volumes all of Professor Kurz's major studies are now available. Whether they throw fresh light on an old problem, or bring to attention an unnoticed work, they remain stimulating, and always highly intertaining. A sixteen-page memoir of Otto Kurz by Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich is included here as a preface to this second volume.

Contents:

Preface
Un portrait de Sauromate II, roi du Bosphore
An Alleged Portrait of Heraclius
A Coptic Miniature at Leiden
The Date of the Alexandrian World Chronicle
Ein Insulares Musterbuch und die byzantinische Psalterillustration: Three Armenian Miniatures in theFitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Date of the Taq i Kisra
Mamluk Heraldry and interpretatio christiana. Filippino Lippi's Worship of the Apis
A Model for Bandinelli's Statue of Cosimo I
Zu Vasaris Vita des Fra Filippo Lippi
A Copy after the Master E. S. on a Jewish Book-Binding
A Sculptor of the Danube School
Holbein and Others in a Seventeenth-century Collection
An Architectural Design for Henry VIII
Shakespeare and the Shaven Hercules
Drei Zeichnungen Pieter Brueghels des Älteren
A Sculpture by Guido Reni
An Unnoticed Work by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Un dessin de Paolo Pagani au cabinet des dessins des musées de Poitiers
Hagenauer. Posch and Mozart
Varnishes, Tinted Varnishes and Patina
Time the Painter
Early Art Forgeries from the Renaissance to the 18th Century
The 'Bonus Eventus' Relief in the British Museum
The Pebble from Apsheronsk and its Alleged Greco-Alanic Inscription
An Engraved Gem signed by Thamyras
A Mexican Amulet against Kidney Stones
Forgeries of Jewish Ritual Lavers
Deus Alea Ludens
Index