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Article: Albion's Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 1998
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Lucy Gent, ed. Albion's Classicim: the Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660. (Studies in British Art, 2.) New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. 200 b/w illus. + viii + 470 pp. $65. ISBN: 0-300-06381-4.
Albion's Classicism is the second volume in a series published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Yale Center for British Art. It evolved out of a 1993 conference at the Warburg Institute that brought together British and American scholars from a variety of disciplines. In sixteen essays based on conference papers, plus an introduction and afterward, these scholars examine classical clements in particular works of art, the written ...