Perfection’s Progress
E.H. Gombrich, 5 November 1981
Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900
by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny.
Yale, 376 pp., £20, March 1981,0 300 02641 2 Show More
by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny.
Yale, 376 pp., £20, March 1981,
“... not illustrate, a number of other works such as the Juno Ludovisi or the Clytie which occasionally rose to comparative fame. Understandably, they generally keep clear of portraits such as the Naples bust of Homer, the Vatican statues of Sophocles and Demosthenes or the Augustus of Primaporta, but, maybe, in a next edition they might include some of the works ... ”