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Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001) was an Austrian art historian. Born in Vienna, Gombrich studied at the Theresianum and then at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser. After graduating, he worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936 and was named Director in 1959. His major works include The Story of Art, Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography, The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art.
The Miracle at Chauvet
Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave, The Oldest Known Paintings in the World
by Jean-Marie Chauvet and Eliette Brunel Deschamps and Christian Hillaire
The Cave Beneath the Sea: Paleolithic Images at Cosquer
by Jean Clottes and Jean Courtin
November 14, 1996 issue
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Three Essays on Style
by Erwin Panofsky, edited by Irving Lavin, with a memoir by William S. Heckscher
Perspective as Symbolic Form
by Erwin Panofsky, translated by Christopher S. Wood
February 15, 1996 issue
What Art Tells Us
History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
by Francis Haskell
October 21, 1993 issue
Getting the Picture
Only Connect Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance
by John Shearman
March 4, 1993 issue
The Edge of Delusion
The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response
by David Freedberg
February 15, 1990 issue
Distinguished Dissident
James J. Gibson and the Psychology of Perception
by Edward S. Reed
January 19, 1989 issue
Back from Oblivion
Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays
by Francis Haskell
June 25, 1987 issue
Scenes in a Golden Age
Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting Pennsylvania Press)
catalog of an exhibition organized by Peter C. Sutton
June 13, 1985 issue
Mysteries of Dutch Painting
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
by Svetlana Alpers
November 10, 1983 issue
The Art of Collecting Art
The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared
by Joseph Alsop
December 2, 1982 issue
The Life-giving Touch
P.P.Rubens: Paintings, Oilsketches, Drawings June 29-September 30, 1977
Catalogue of the Exhibition, Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts,
P.P.Rubens
by Frans Baudouin, translated by Elsie Callander
Rubens
compiled and with an introduction by Keith Roberts
Rubens and Italy
by Michael Jaffé
Rubens, Drawings and Sketches in the British Museum, 1977 Publications Limited
by John Rowlands. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Department of Prints and Drawings
March 9, 1978 issue
Talking of Michelangelo
Michelangelo's Last Paintings: The Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace
by Leo Steinberg
January 20, 1977 issue
Dream Houses
On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History
by Joseph Rykwert
November 29, 1973 issue
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