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Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600
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Nicolas Poussin (2 vols.)
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Art and Architecture in France 1500-1700
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 Bruce Boucher
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 Peter M. Daly and Virginia W. Calahan (eds.)
Andreas Alciatus
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 Robert Enggass and Jonathan Brown 
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Literary Sources of Art History
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 Francis Haskell
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 Howard Hibbard
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 Howard Hibbard
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 Vernon Hyde Minor
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Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia, 24595 USA 
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