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Past and present in art and taste : selected essays.
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ISBN: 0300036078 Year: 1987 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) Yale university

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Patrons and painters : a study in the relations between Italian art and society in the age of the Baroque
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ISBN: 0300025378 Year: 1980 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

History and its images : art and the interpretation of the past
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ISBN: 0300055404 0300059493 9780300055405 9780300059496 Year: 1993 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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Over the last four centuries, historians have increasingly turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this wide-ranging and engrossing book, a distinguished art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material, and he examines the specific objects that became available to them through excavation, the creation of private collections and public museums, easier means of travel, and the startling displacements brought about by vandalism and art exhibitions. Francis Haskell begins by discussing the antiquarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who brought to light and interpreted as historical evidence coins, sculptures, paintings discovered in the catacombs beneath Rome and other relics surviving from earlier ages. He explains that, in the eighteenth century, historians gradually began to acknowledge the significance of such visual sources and to draw on them in order to validate and give colour to their narratives or to utilize them as foundation stones for a new branch of learning - the history of culture. Later writers followed the example of Michelet in making inferences from the visual arts to indicate the whole mentality of an age, while (more erratically) others saw in them the harbingers of political, religious or social upheavals. Haskell concludes by discussing those cultural historians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Burckhardt and Huizinga above all, who did not merely give the visual arts a prominent and necessary place in their interpretations of the past, but in some ways actually interpreted the past through the visual arts.


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De l'art et du goût jadis et naguère
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ISBN: 2070715027 9782070715022 Year: 1989 Volume: *2 Publisher: Paris : Gallimard,

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Rediscoveries in art : some aspects of taste, fashion and collecting in England and France.
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ISBN: 0801409950 Year: 1976 Volume: 7th Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.) Cornell university press

L'amateur d'art
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ISBN: 2253905313 9782253905318 Year: 1997 Volume: 531 Publisher: [Paris] : Librairie générale française,

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Rediscoveries in art : some aspects of taste, fashion and collecting in England and France.
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ISBN: 0714820687 Year: 1980 Publisher: Oxford Phaidon

Patrons and Painters : A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque.
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ISBN: 0300025408 Year: 1980 Publisher: London New Haven : Yale :

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