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Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.(Book review)
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March 1, 2008
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MEYER SCHAPIRO
Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Ed. and intro. Linda Seidel Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 277 pp.; 70 b/w ills. $40.00
A decade after his death, Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996), the charismatic teacher and scholar of medieval and modern art, associated with Columbia University for almost seventy-five years, remains a source of inspiration and fascination. Schapiro has been canonized among the leading figures of the discipline by an ever-increasing body of critical historiography. New volumes of his selected papers and lectures continue to appear. (1) The publication of the Norton Lectures on Romanesque ...
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