Description
Ashmolean Museum [Published Date: 1997]. Soft cover, 128 pp. First published by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford to coincide with the exhibition of the Ideal Heads in the Chambers Hall Gallery, Ashmolean museum 11 July - 14 September 1997.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Brown pictorial paper covers with French flaps have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations throughout. Contents include: Foreword by Christopher White, Director; 'Questa Scabrosa Missione': Canova in Paris and London in 1815 by Katharine Eustace; Ideal Beauty by James Fenton; Canova, Chantrey and Cockerell; the Ashmolean Museum's Early Collection of Casts from the Antique by Donna Kurtz; 'Just a tiny bit of rouge upon the lips and cheeks': Canova, Colour, and the Classical Ideal by Mark Norman, and Richard Cook; The Ashmolean: A Fitting Home For Canova's Ideal Head by Michael Vickers; Catalogue; Other contributors to the catalogue: Kenneth Garlick, Richard Sharp, and Katharine Eustace, Helen Whitehouse; Bibliography