Product Description: The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen --graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or sea serpent. Other sea hybrids -- horses, bulls, panthers, even an elephant--also swim through Venetian art in finned and fish-tailed forms...read more

Product Description: The National Gallery's collection of nineteenth-century sculpture is dominated by thirty-seven works by Auguste Rodin, among them The Kiss, and Honoré Daumier's celebrated portrait busts. These works, as well as sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Paul Gauguin, and Theodore Gericault, are examined in unprecedented depth, shedding new light on many issues of scholarship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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