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Mary Phillips, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, mphillips@princeton.edu
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Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre. Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2003. 608 pp.; 380 color ills.; 349 b/w ills. $75.00 (cloth) (0300098804)
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