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April 22, 2009
Pamela M. Jones Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. 390 pp.; 16 color ills.; 90 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754661795)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.41

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Who wouldn’t want to be an art historian? We spend our days looking at and thinking about beautiful and interesting things, confronting the past and present through works made by individuals, groups, tribes, nations. In museums, libraries, and on the internet, we encounter images from humanity’s earliest history and works that were made yesterday. In everyday life, we are barraged with the visual evidence of human creativity, from vernacular architecture to the arts of fashion...