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Picturing art history: the rise of the illustrated history of art in the eighteenth century

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This book "Picturing art history" traces the development of the history and use of art reproductions in the eighteenth century. Showing how reproductions ended up in art books and how in the eighteenth century learned men as Bottari, Winckelmann and d'Agincourt brought art history into the picture by collecting in art cabinets reproductions of drawings and prints. Which later became an essential dimension in the experience of art objects and the writing of art history.

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    Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2010

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    • 1700-1799
    • Geschichte 1700-1800
    • Geschichte 1750-1820

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    • 9789089640314
    • 9048512786
    • 9789048512782
    • 9089640312

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