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Eighteenth-Century Art

Sarah D. Coffin, Gail S. Davidson, Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, and Ellen Lupton
Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008
Exh. cat. New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Assouline, 2008. 272 pp.; 380+ color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780910503914)

Exhibition schedule: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, March 7–July 6, 2008

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August 6, 2008
Charlene Villaseñor Black
Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 8 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0691096317)
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July 9, 2008
Sébastien Allard, Robert Rosenblum, Guilhem Scherf, and MaryAnne Stevens
Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1830
Exh. cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 432 pp.; 260 ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781903973233)

Exhibition schedule: Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 3–April 20, 2007

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Sébastien Allard, Robert Rosenblum, Guilhem Scherf, and MaryAnne Stevens
Portraits publics, portraits privés 1770–1830
Exh. cat. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2006. 383 pp.; 220 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Paper Euros 45.00 (2711850315)

Exhibition schedule: Grand Palais, Paris, October 2, 2006–January 9, 2007

June 11, 2008
Claire Farago and Donna Pierce
Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2006. 376 pp.; 91 color ills.; 114 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0271026901)
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June 10, 2008
Mary Morton, ed.
Oudry's Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. 166 pp.; 83 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780892368891)

Exhibition schedule: Getty Museum, Los Angeles, May 1–September 2, 2007; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 7–January 6, 2008; Staatliches Museum Schwerin, April 4–July 6, 2008

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May 21, 2008
Sarah R. Cohen
“Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780) Study Day.” The Frick Collection, New York, NY. January 22, 2008
College Art Association, 2008
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May 6, 2008
Edgar Peters Bowron and Peter Björn Kerber
Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Exh. cat. New Haven and Houston: Yale University Press in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2008. 240 pp.; 152 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780890901588)

Exhibition schedule: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2007–January 27, 2008; National Gallery, London, February 20–May 18, 2008

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April 15, 2008
Eleanor P. DeLorme, ed.
Joséphine and the Arts of the Empire
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. 208 pp.; 125 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (0892368012)
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November 15, 2007
Susan Weber Soros, ed.
James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713–1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity
Exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 688 pp.; 500 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300117134)

Exhibition schedule: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, November 16, 2006–February 18, 2007; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 15–June 24, 2007

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Victoria C. Gardener Coates and Jon L. Seydl
Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2007. 304 pp.; 61 color ills.; 61 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780892368723)
October 30, 2007
Melissa Hyde
Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics
Getty Research Institute, 2006. 272 pp.; 18 color ills.; 53 b/w ills. Paper $49.95 (0892367431)
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October 17, 2007
Dorothy M. Shepard
"Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797" Symposium. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. April 22, 2007
College Art Association, 2007
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September 12, 2007
Oliver Impey and Christiaan Jörg
Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580–1850
Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2007. 384 pp.; 600 color ills.; 57 b/w ills. $303.00 (907482272X)
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July 26, 2007
Angela Rosenthal
Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility
Yale University Press in association with Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006. 352 pp.; 101 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300103336)
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May 2, 2007
Carmen Giménez and Francisco Calvo Seraller
Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth and History
Exh. cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2006. 446 pp.; 222 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (8496209733)

Exhibition schedule: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, November 17, 2006–March 28, 2007

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April 25, 2007
Peter C. Sutton
Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712)
Exh. cat. Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp.; 110 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. $65.00 (0300119704)

Exhibition schedule: Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, December 16, 2006–January 10, 2007; Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam, February 1–April 30, 2007

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April 19, 2007
Bruno Chenique and Sylvie Ramond, eds.
Géricault: La Folie d'un Monde
Exh. cat. Paris: Editions Hazan, 2007. 240 pp.; 173 color ills.; 38 b/w ills. Paper €35.00 (2754100989)

Exhibition schedule: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, April 21–July 31, 2006

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January 24, 2007
Charles Beddington
Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746–1755
Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art and Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2006. 220 pp.; 120 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0300119690)

Exhibition schedule: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, October 19–December 31, 2006; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, January 24–April 15, 2007

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January 2, 2007
Ilona Katzew
Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 127 color ills.; 143 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300102410)
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November 4, 2006
Claire Stoullig and Félicité Isabelle Bleeke
Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702–1789): Swiss Master
Trans. Charles Penwarden and Toby Alleyne-Gee; intro. Anne Poulet. Paris: Somogy Éditions d’Art, 2006. 119 pp.; many color ills. Cloth

The Frick Collection, New York, NY, June 13–September 17, 2006

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October 25, 2006
Andrew Schulz
Goya’s Caprichos: Aesthetics, Perception, and the Body
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 255 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00
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July 13, 2006
Philippe Bordes
Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile
Exh. cat. Williamstown, Mass.: Yale University Press in association with Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005. 400 pp.; 80 color ills.; 95 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0300104472)

Exhibition schedule: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, February 1–April 24, 2005; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, June 5–September 5, 2005

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June 7, 2006
Lianne McTavish
Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France
Burlington, Vt. and Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. 272 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Cloth $89.95 (0754636194)
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March 16, 2006
Philippe Bordes
Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile
Exh. cat. Williamstown, Mass.: Yale University Press in association with Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005. 400 pp.; 80 color ills.; 95 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0300104472)

Exhibition schedule: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, February 1–April 24, 2005; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, June 5–September 5, 2005

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March 15, 2006
Thomas Kaufmann
Painterly Enlightenment: The Art of Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1724-1796
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 208 pp.; 36 color ills.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (0807829560)
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March 10, 2006
Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500–1800
Exh. cat. Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Art Museum, 2005. 272 pp.; 38 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. $39.95 (0936042052)

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., April 3–September 25, 2005

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July 6, 2005
Patricia Berger
Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. 266 pp.; 66 b/w ills.; 66 ills. Cloth (0824825632)
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December 11, 2003
Richard L. Kagan and Fernando Mariás
Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493–1793
Yale University Press, 2000. 240 pp.; 136 color ills.; 18 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0300083149)
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August 12, 2003
Terryl N. Kinder
Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation
Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications in association with Eerdmans, 2002. 407 pp.; 200 ills. Cloth $70.00 (0802838871)
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Peter Fergusson and Stuart Harrison
Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory
Yale University Press, 1999. 296 pp.; 35 color ills.; 189 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0300078315)
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Megan Cassidy-Welch
Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-century English Cistercian Monasteries
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2001. 312 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (2503510892)
August 4, 2003
Brenda Jordan and Victoria Weston, eds.
Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. 288 pp.; 14 color ills.; 57 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0824826086)
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July 28, 2003
Allison Smith
Exposed: The Victorian Nude
Watson-Guptill, 2002. 288 pp.; 170 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0823016331)

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, February 14–May 18, 2003

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Martim Avillez, Leslie Camhi, and Anita Novinsky
The 23
Lusitania Press, 2001. 42 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Cloth $30.00 (1882791088)
Tate Britain, London, November 1, 2001–January 27, 2002; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, March 1–June 2, 2002; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, September 6, 2002–January 5, 2003; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, February–May 2003; Geidai Museum (University Art Museum), Tokyo, Japan, June–August 2003.
 
November 7, 2002
Elise Goodman, ed.
Art and Culture in the Eighteenth Century: New Dimensions and Multiple Perspectives
Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 2001. 162 pp.; 43 b/w ills. Cloth $52.50 (0874137403)
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September 25, 2002
Mirka Benes and Dianne Harris, eds.
Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France
Cambridge University Press, 2001. 448 pp.; 167 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (0521782252)
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August 14, 2002
Yuri Piatnitsky, Oriana Baddeley, and Earleen Brunner, eds.
Sinai, Byzantium, Russia: Orthodox Christian Art from the Sixth to the Twentieth Century
University of Washington Press in association with Saint Catherine Foundation, London, 2001. 456 pp.; 550 color ills. Cloth $100.00 (0295980273)

Exhibition Schedule: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 19-September 18, 2000

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August 1, 2002
Ginger Cheng-Chi Hsü
A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 330 pp.; 1 color ills.; 45 b/w ills. Cloth $49.50 (0804732523)
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July 29, 2002
Edgar Peters Bowron
Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe
Yale University Press, 2001. 304 pp.; 140 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300091818)
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Museo Correr, Venice, Italy, February 10–June 27, 2001; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, July 29–October 21, 2001.
 
July 3, 2002
Mariët Westermann
Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt
Exh. cat. Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders in association with Denver Art Museum and The Newark Museum, 2001. 240 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. $29.95 (0914738461)

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, October 17, 2001-January 20, 2002; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, March 2-May 26, 2002

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Martim Avillez, Leslie Camhi, and Anita Novinsky
The 23
Lusitania Press, 2001. 42 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Cloth $30.00 (1882791088)
May 8, 2002
Marcus Wood
Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America 1780–1865
Routledge, 2000. 341 pp.; 7 color ills.; 168 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (041592698x)
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January 11, 2002
James J. Sheehan
Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism
Oxford University Press, 2000. 271 pp.; 31 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0195135725)
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December 6, 2001
Mark A. Cheetham
Kant, Art and Art History: Moments of Discipline
Cambridge University Press, 2001. 232 pp.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $54.95 (0521800188)
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November 21, 2001
Robin Jaffee Frank
Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
Yale University Press, 2000. 362 pp.; 100 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0300087241)
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Yale University Art Gallery, October 3-December 30, 2000; Gibbes Museum of Art, February 10-April 8, 2001; and Addison Gallery of American Art, April 27-July 31, 2001.
 
August 31, 2001
Frank Büttner
Peter Cornelius: Fresken und Freskenprojekte, vol. 1
Weisbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1980. 374 pp.; 228 b/w ills. Cloth $318.00 (3515032584)
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August 28, 2001
E. Bowron and Joseph Rychel, eds.
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century
Philadelphia: Merrell Holberton Publishers in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000. 624 pp.; 200 color ills.; 300 b/w ills. Paper $70.00 (0876331363)

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, March 16-May 28, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, June 25-September 17, 2000

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July 9, 2001
Christine M. Boeckl
Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology
Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2000. 210 pp.; 45 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (094354985X)
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May 22, 2001
Eric Jan Sluijter
Seductress of Sight: Studies in Dutch Art of the Golden Age
Zwolle: Waanders, 2000. 368 pp.; 245 b/w ills. Cloth (9040094438)
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May 1, 2001
John J. Ciofalo
The Self-Portraits of Francisco Goya
Cambridge University Press, 2001. 240 pp.; 8 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth (0521771366)
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April 17, 2001
Elizabeth McKellar
The Birth of Modern London: The Development and Design of the City 1660-1720
Manchester University Press in association with Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. 263 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0719040760)
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James Ayres
Building the Georgian City
Yale University Press, 1998. 280 pp.; 42 color ills.; 302 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (0300075480)
March 17, 2001
Sarah R. Cohen
Art, Dance and the Body in the French Cutlture of the Ancien Régime
Cambridge University Press, 2000. 352 pp.; 8 color ills.; 166 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0521640466)
March 16, 2001
Julie Ann Plax
Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France
Cambridge University Press, 2000. 272 pp.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (052164268X)
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February 22, 2001
Pierre Rosenberg
From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David & Ingres
Princeton: Princeton University Press in association with National Gallery of Art, 2000. 244 pp.; 265 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (069100918X)
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February 1, 2001
Vibeke Vibolt Knudsen, ed.
Goya’s Realism
Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2000. 231 pp.; 90 color ills. Paper (8790096037)
February 11-May 7, 2000, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
 
January 30, 2001
Chloe Chard
Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography 1600-1830
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. 278 pp. Cloth $69.95 (0719048044)
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November 9, 2000
Carla Yanni
Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 224 pp.; 103 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (0801863260)
November 7, 2000
Mario Bevilacqua
Roma nel secolo dei lumi: Architettura erudizione scienza nella Pianta di G.B. Nolli "celebre geometra"
Naples: Mondadori Electa, 1998. 224 pp.; some color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (8843587544)
September 1, 2000
Elise Goodman
The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 185 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth (0520217942)
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August 23, 2000
Pierre Rosenberg
Chardin
Yale University Press, 2000. 360 pp.; 99 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300083483)

Royal Academy of the Arts, London, March 11-May 29, 2000; in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 27-September 3, 2000.

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August 23, 2000