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Sehr guter, nahezu tadelloser Zustand, lediglich Einband altersbedingt etw. gebr�t. Tolles Papier. / Very good almost perfect condition, only cover due to age slightly discolored. Great choice of paper. - EN: content: List of Illustrations -- I Hume and the Heroic Portrait II Julian die Apostate at Hampton Court -- III Shaf&Sbttry as a Patron of Art. With a Letter by Closterman and two Designs by Guidi -- IV 'Borrowed Attitudes' in Reynolds and Hogarth -- V The Maenad under the Cross. Comments on an Observation -- by Reynolds -- VI A Source for Reynolds's Parody of The School of Athens VII Blake and Reynolds VIII Johnsen and Demonax IX The Revolution of History Painting X Penny, West, and The Death of General Wolfe XI The Sources of David's Horaces XII In Defence of Composite Portraits -- Index -- Plates. / Selected plates: Michaelangelo, detail from 'The Ancestors of Christ' -- Giulio Romano, Psyche receiving the vase of ointment -- Gainsborough, The Painter's Daughters chasing a Butterfly -- Romney, The Infant Shakespeare attended by Nature and the Passions -- Tilly Kettle, Sir William Blackstone -- Michelangelo, Jeremiah. ISBN 9780198173717