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THAMES AND HUDSO·N
EARLY MEDIEVAL ART GREAT PRINTS AND
IN SPAIN PRINTMAKERS
PEDRO DE PALOL AND MAX HlRMER HERBERT J. WECHSLER
This first ever comprehensive survey of The author, who has a lifetime's experience
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architecture to jewellery. Professor Hirmer's extraordinary richness and variety of the
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ARCHITECTURE AND RUBENS
SCULPTURE PIERRE CABANNE MODIGLIANI
IN EARLY BRITAIN A biography, in the World of Art Library, of ALFRED WERNER
ROBERT STOLL this immensely influential Baroque painter Amedeo Modigliani was perhaps the most
The best study yet produced of the who was also a diplomat, a dedicated original Italian painter of the twentieth
Romanesque style in this country, with enjoyer of life and a passionate admirer of century. This book, prepared with the
photographs by Jean Roubier, of all the female beauty-combined with a critical co-operation of his daughter, giving an
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EUROPEAN ILLUMINATED IMPRESSIONISM MANZU
MANUSCRIPTS PHOEBE POOL JOHN REWALD
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..
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The Latest Titles in the Movements in World Art Serles
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MEDIEVAL TAPESTRIES Dora Heinz
GREEK VASE-PAINTING Heinrich Neum·ayer
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