This lavishly illustrated book compares and analyzes the compositions, iconography, and sources of a series of Jean-Honore Fragonard's most striking works, in the context of ancient regime pre-Romanticism. Andrei Molotiu discusses the transcendental aspect of love in series and the concept of Romantic love and painting on the eve of the French Revolution.

This volume presents Federico Zuccaro's twenty drawings and accompanying poems in their historical and artistic context and will be of interest to art historians and general readers alike. Of particular importance is its examination of the role of the copying of masterworks in the training of young Renaissance artists.

Laurence Chatel de Brancion recreates the original viewing experience of Louis de Carmontelle's transparencies by leading the reader through a series of panoramic scenes, while offering a lively analysis of eighteenth-century social life. The book presents all of Carmontelle's extant transparencies, some of which survive only in fragments and a number of which have never been published.

This beautifully illustrated book offers a wide-ranging overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece. The contributors include both those who have excavated at the sites in question and scholars who have spent a lifetime studying the monuments about which they write.