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- catalog abstract ""James Fenton, one of England's most gifted poets, has in recent years been looking closely at works of art and writing incisively and inventively about them and their creators. Leonardo's Nephew collects fifteen pieces, most originally published in The New York Review of Books, in which he discusses a wide range of painting and sculpture, from the mummy portraits of ancient Egypt and the few surviving works of the fifteenth-century sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio to Seurat's bathers in the Seine, the boxes of Joseph Cornell, and the works of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11063899.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""James Fenton, one of England's most gifted poets, has in recent years been looking closely at works of art and writing incisively and inventively about them and their creators. Leonardo's Nephew collects fifteen pieces, most originally published in The New York Review of Books, in which he discusses a wide range of painting and sculpture, from the mummy portraits of ancient Egypt and the few surviving works of the fifteenth-century sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio to Seurat's bathers in the Seine, the boxes of Joseph Cornell, and the works of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.".
- catalog description "On Statues -- The Mummy's Secret -- Pisanello: The Best of Both Worlds -- Verrocchio: The New Cicerone -- Leonardo's Nephew -- Bernini at Harvard/Chicago Baroque -- Who Was Thomas Jones? -- Degas in the Evening -- Degas in Chicago -- Seurat and the Sewers -- The Secrets of Maillol -- Becoming Picasso -- Joseph Cornell: "Monuments to Every Moment" -- Rauschenberg: The Voracious Ego -- Johns: A Banner with a Strange Device.".
- catalog extent "xv, 283 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0374185050 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog subject "709 21".
- catalog subject "Art History.".
- catalog subject "N7445.2 .F46 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "On Statues -- The Mummy's Secret -- Pisanello: The Best of Both Worlds -- Verrocchio: The New Cicerone -- Leonardo's Nephew -- Bernini at Harvard/Chicago Baroque -- Who Was Thomas Jones? -- Degas in the Evening -- Degas in Chicago -- Seurat and the Sewers -- The Secrets of Maillol -- Becoming Picasso -- Joseph Cornell: "Monuments to Every Moment" -- Rauschenberg: The Voracious Ego -- Johns: A Banner with a Strange Device.".
- catalog title "Leonardo's nephew : essays on art and artist / James Fenton.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".