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RR 2001/391 The Oxford Companion To Western Art Hugh Brigstocke Oxford University Press Oxford 2001 820pp. ISBN 0 19 866203 3 L40.00
Keywords History, Art
This handsome new Oxford Companion provides a reference guide to the painting, sculpture and graphic arts of cultures speaking a European language. Based on Harold Osborne's Oxford Companion to Art, this volume includes 2,600 entries and 49 special feature articles all in A-Z order.
Many of Osborne's original articles have been reprinted and updated where required. Osborne's writings on materials, techniques and the scientific examination...