Product Description: The portrait medal was one of the key sculptural forms of the Renaissance, a manifesto for the humanist cult of personal fame and a vehicle for some of the finest artists of the age. Yet this most subtle and delicate variety of relief sculpture has chiefly been the province of collectors and connoisseurs, viewed as an intriguing branch of numismatics, rather than an art form in its own right...read more

Product Description: Sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, this illustrated history of the Inkas and their predecessors offers a fresh appraisal of a remarkable civilization.

Product Description: This volume offers `a complete account of the meaning, form and purpose of Cycladic Art' - using masterpieces from the Goulandris collection newly and spectacularly photographed as illustrations. Renfrew introduces the familiar folded-arm figures, explaining their classification and possible use; he considers the art-historical issues which they raise: whether certain figures can be attributed to individual craftsmen; how they were originally painted; proportion schemes that might have been used in their creation; and their formal representation of the human body...read more