Description
Book SynopsisVolume II of Professor Kurz's collected essays comprises 30 articles, showcasing his wide-ranging interests in art from Classical, Byzantine and Islamic to Renaissance, Baroque, and art restoration. These volumes encompass all of his significant works, providing fresh insights and entertainment. Includes a preface by Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich.
Table of ContentsPreface
Un portrait de Sauromate II, roi du Bosphore
An Alleged Portrait of Heraclius
A Coptic Miniature at Leiden
The Date of the Alexandrian World Chronicle
Ein Insulares Musterbuch und die byzantinische Psalterillustration: Three Armenian Miniatures in theFitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Date of the Taq i Kisra
Mamluk Heraldry and interpretatio christiana. Filippino Lippi's Worship of the Apis
A Model for Bandinelli's Statue of Cosimo I
Zu Vasaris Vita des Fra Filippo Lippi
A Copy after the Master E. S. on a Jewish Book-Binding
A Sculptor of the Danube School
Holbein and Others in a Seventeenth-century Collection
An Architectural Design for Henry VIII
Shakespeare and the Shaven Hercules
Drei Zeichnungen Pieter Brueghels des Älteren
A Sculpture by Guido Reni
An Unnoticed Work by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Un dessin de Paolo Pagani au cabinet des dessins des musées de Poitiers
Hagenauer. Posch and Mozart
Varnishes, Tinted Varnishes and Patina
Time the Painter
Early Art Forgeries from the Renaissance to the 18th Century
The 'Bonus Eventus' Relief in the British Museum
The Pebble from Apsheronsk and its Alleged Greco-Alanic Inscription
An Engraved Gem signed by Thamyras
A Mexican Amulet against Kidney Stones
Forgeries of Jewish Ritual Lavers
Deus Alea Ludens
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