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Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen: The Politics and Rhetoric of Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe
by Colantuono, Anthony
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0521563976
- ISBN 13
- 9780521563970
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About This Item
Cambridge, UK / New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Square Quarto. xiii + 304 pp.list of 8 colour plates, 60 b&w figures. Introduction, IV Pats, Conclusion. Appendix: Epistolary Encomia and Poems in Praise of the Abduction of Helen. Notes, bibliiography, index. faint fox specks to top edge, binding tight, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved. cloth unworn. 8.25" x 10.25" deep brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, in red illustrated DJ, unclipped in acetate protector. .
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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Title
- Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen: The Politics and Rhetoric of Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Author
- Colantuono, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0521563976
- ISBN 13
- 9780521563970
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, UK / New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- Square Quarto
- Keywords
- Barberini Family - patronage - - Guido Reni 1575-1642 - Painting - political aspects
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART HISTORY;
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