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National Gallery of Art, Washington. New and revised edition. Foreword by J. Carter Brown.

Travel

Walker, John

Specialty Travel

New York (Harry N. Abrams)

Part of Prentice Hall's new Perspective series of moderately priced, heavily illustrated, high-quality paperback books on specific subjects in art history, this book discusses the art of Rome in the Renaissance in the context of its patronage. It accounts the extraordinary works of art and architecture sponsored by the popes and Roman noble families—churches, palaces, villas, paintings, frescoes, fountains, sculptures, and illustrated books.

The Art of Renaissance Rome, 1400-1600. (Perspectives.)

Arts & Photography

Partridge, Loren

History & Criticism

4to. xii, 285 pp, list of 24 color plates and 120 b&amp;w illustrations, foreword, introduction, THE AFRICAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT: Bushmen; Negritos or Pygmies; Negros, Bantu; Hamitic Peoples; Nilo-Hamites and Nilotes. MATERIAL ASPECTS OF ART: Art in Its Relationship to Culture. SOCIAL LIFE: SOCIAL POLITICAL ASPECT: Age-Groups, Secret Societies, Legal Power, Rank and State Procedures; Decentralized Political Power; Centralized Political Power. ECONOMICS. RELIGION AND THE SUPERNATURAL. INTELLECTUAL COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY: Play. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS. CATALOGUE. APPENDIX: acknowledgments, bibliography, Map I: African Tribes, Map II: African States, index. Text by Rene S. Wassing. Photographs by Hans Hinz. Translated by Diana Imber. Reprint n.d. [1990s?]. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine.

African Art. Its background and traditions.

Wassing, René S.

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