Upward Mobility
Bruce Boucher, 31 March 1988
Picturing Art in Antwerp, 1550-1700
by Zirka Zaremba Filipczak.
Princeton, 247 pp., £37.60, February 1988,0 691 04047 8 Show More
by Zirka Zaremba Filipczak.
Princeton, 247 pp., £37.60, February 1988,
The Painful Birth of the Art Book
by Francis Haskell.
Thames and Hudson, 64 pp., £5.95, February 1988,0 500 55019 0 Show More
by Francis Haskell.
Thames and Hudson, 64 pp., £5.95, February 1988,
“... There are serious works that masquerade as coffee-table books, and Venetian Villas by Michelangelo Muraro is one of them. Large and elegantly packaged, it contains over four hundred colour plates on a topic of perennial fascination, the villa in the Veneto: but it would be wrong to dismiss it as just another recycling of familiar images ... ”