Sight and Insight. Essays on Art and Culture in Honour of E H Gombrich

Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - John Onians, I wonder. A short history of amazement -- Marian Wenzel, A rare bronze kouros and the prehistory of the Devil -- Carlo Ginzburg, Idols and likenesses: Origen, Homilies on Exodus VIII.y, and its reception -- Michael Evans, Fictive painting in twelfth-century Paris -- A.C. de la Mare, A palaeographer's odyssey -- Jean Michel Massing, Sicut erat in diebus Antonii: Die devils under the bridge in the Tribulations of St Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch in Lisbon -- Jennifer M. Fletcher, Fine art and festivity in Renaissance Venice: Die artist's part -- Charles Hope, A new document about Titian's Piet�David Kunzle -- Ezn Dyck's Continence of Scipio as a metaphor of statecraft at the early Stuart court -- Elizabeth McGrath, From Parnassus to Careggi: A seventeenth-century celebration of Plato and Renaissance Florence -- Martin Kemp, Coming into line: Graphic demonstrations of skill in Renaissance and Baroque engravings -- David Freedberg, The failure of colour -- Allan Ellenius, Nature, dreams and realities: Ambiguities of visual imagery in seventeenth-century Sweden -- Thomas Puttfarken, Composition, perspective and presence: Observations on early academic theory in France -- Jennifer Montagu, Interpretations of Timanthes's Sacrifice of Iphigenia -- Svetlana Alpers, No telling, with Tiepolo -- Michael Podro, Herder's Plastik -- Alex Potts, Dolls and things: The reification and disintegration of sculpture in Rodin and Rilke -- Partha Mitter, 'Decadence in India': Reflections on a much-used word in studies of Indian art -- Michael Baxandall, Fixation and distraction: The nail in Braque's Violin and Pitcher (1910). ISBN 9780714829715