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History of Art

Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

Quinlan-McGrath Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...

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History of Art

The French List

Sexual Night

Quignard Pascal

ISBN: HB: 9780857422064, Seagull Books, December 2014
124 pp., 25x15 cm, 48 colour plates

In "The Sexual Night", renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery. He moves from the annals of global art to ancient and modern, from Bosch and Durer to Rembrandt and Tint...

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