Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Dayvolume II: French and Other European Sculpture (Excluding Italian and

by Nicholas Penny

This is a superbly illustrated Catalogue of the collection of sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum which is, after that of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the largest and most important in Great Britain. The collection is particularly strong in Italian bronzes and in the work of the New Sculptors (the former from the Fortnum Collection, the latter from the Brocklebank bequest). In addition it possesses the famous ivory Venus and Cupid by Petel, the extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199513481
• ISBN13: 9780199513482
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"