Watch List notes:

Various authors. Lot of three (3) books about classical sculpture. (US & Germany, 1982-2007). Includes: (1) Greek and Roman Sculpture in America. Cornelius Vermeule. (University of California Press / Getty 1982.) 406 pages, @ 300 illustrations, 30 color plates. A compendium of classical sculpture from museum and private collections in the United States. (2) Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Carlos A. Pincon et al. (NY Metropolitan Museum of Art & Yale University, 2007.) 508 pages, 500 objects illustrated. The volume includes a detailed history of the collection and seven chapters on the Neolithic and the Aegean Bronze Age, Geometric and Archaic Greece, Classical Greece, the Hellenistic Age, Cyprus, Etruria, and the Roman Empire. (3) Sculpture: From Antiquity to the Present Day. Philip Bruneau and Georges Duby, editors. (Taschen, 2006.) 1152 pages in two volumes: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, and From the Renaissance to the Present Day. Thousands of illustrations, with commentary from a host of contributing authors. THREE BOOKS (IN FOUR VOLUMES TOTAL) IN LOT. New condition.The first out of print; the second and third subject of a limited print run and scarce.


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