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March 18, 1999
Sarah Blake McHam, ed. Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 287 pp.; 139 color ills. Paper $24.95 (0521473667)
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Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture brings together under one cover a series of essays written over a thirty-year period. The earliest articles, first published in 1970 and 1971 respectively, are H. W. Janson’s “The Revival of Antiquity in Early Renaissance Sculpture” and Irving Lavin’s “On the Renaissance Portrait Bust.” Also reprinted here are Christiane Klapisch-Zuber’s “Holy Dolls: Play and Piety in Florence in the Quattrocento,” (first published in French in 1983) and Claudia Lazzaro’s “Gendered...