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Orientalist aesthetics: art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930

Roger Benjamin

Imagining identity in New Spain: race, lineage, and the colonial body in portraiture and casta paintings

Magali Marie Carrera

Giants of delft: Johannes Vermeer and the natural philosophers : the parallel search for knowledge during the age of discovery

Robert D. Huerta

Looking askance: skepticism and American art from Eakins to Duchamp

Michael Leja

Creative composites: modernism, race, and the Stieglitz circle

Lauren Kroiz

Art workers: radical practice in the Vietnam War era

Julia Bryan-Wilson

Critical landscapes: art, space, politics

Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson

The world in Venice: print, the city and early modern identity

Bronwen Wilson

The early stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral, circa 1175-1220

Madeline Harrison Caviness

Painting religion in public: John Singer Sargent's Triumph of religion at the Boston Public Library

Sally M. Promey

Giotto and his publics: three paradigms of patronage

Julian Gardner

The early Renaissance and vernacular culture

Charles Dempsey

Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: the arts, religion, and society in the mid-fourteenth century

Millard Meiss

The art of modern China

Julia Frances Andrews and Kuiyi Shen

Total modernity and the avant-garde in twentieth-century Chinese art

Minglu Gao

Artificial hells: participatory art and the politics of spectatorship

Claire Bishop

Desire and excess: the nineteenth-century culture of art

Jonah Siegel

The nude: a study in ideal form

Kenneth Clark

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Richard Krautheimer and Trude Krautheimer-Hess

Too beautiful to picture: Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis

Elizabeth Mansfield

Painting the dark side: art and the Gothic imagination in nineteenth-century America

Sarah Burns

The visual and the visionary: art and female spirituality in late medieval Germany

Jeffrey F. Hamburger

The paradise garden murals of Malinalco: utopia and empire in sixteenth-century Mexico

Jeanette Favrot Peterson

Only connect--: art and the spectator in the Italian Renaissance

John K. G. Shearman

Esprit de corps: the art of the Parisian avant-garde and the First World War, 1914-1925

Kenneth E. Silver

The Isenheim altarpiece: God's medicine and the painter's vision

Andrée Hayum

Seventeenth-century Barberini documents and inventories of art

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

The throne of wisdom: wood sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France

Ilene H. Forsyth

Tomb sculpture: four lectures on its changing aspects from ancient Egypt to Bernini

Erwin Panofsky, H. W. Janson and Martin Warnke

Andrea del Sarto: text and illustrations, Vol. 2

S. J. Freedberg

Andrea del Sarto: text and illustrations, Vol. 1

S. J. Freedberg

The sculpture of Donatello

H. W. Janson and Jenö Lányi

Early Netherlandish painting: its origins and character, Vol. 2

Erwin Panofsky

Early Netherlandish painting: its origins and character, Vol. 1

Erwin Panofsky

Performance and authenticity in the arts

Salim. Kemal and Ivan Gaskell

Landscape, natural beauty and the arts

Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell

Art forms and civic life in the late Roman Empire

Hans Peter L'Orange and Knut Berg

The murals of Eugene Delacroix at Saint-Sulpice

Jack J Spector

Brancusi's birds

Athena Tacha

Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world: papers from a colloquium in memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2-4 April 1980, planned and organized by Carol Manson Bier

Priscilla Parsons. Soucek, Carol. Bier and Richard Ettinghausen

Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentiono and Venetian sculpture of the early Renaissance

Anne Markham Schulz

The Bigallo: the oratory and residence of the Compagnia del Bigallo e della Misericordia in Florence

Howard Saalman

The Church of Santa Trinita in Florence

Howard Saalman

Panel reliefs of Marcus Aurelius

Inez Scott Ryberg

Ionian trade and colonization

Carl Roebuck

Leonardo and central Italian art, 1515-1550

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt

The iconography of preface and miniature in the Byzantine Gospel book

Robert S. Nelson

Rainbow like an emerald: stained glass in Lorraine in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries

Meredith P. Lillich

The sarcophagi of Ravenna

Marion Lawrence

Gianlorenzo Bernini: new aspects of his art and thought: a commemorative volume

Irving Lavin