The 19 papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators and a practising marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculptures. Contributors...

Between 1750 and his death in 1781, the marquis de Marigny – brother of Madame de Pompadour, courtier to Louis XV, and one of 18th-century France's important patrons of art and architecture – amassed a collection that was broad in scope, progressive...

This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the "Guide to Imag...