Rethinking Eighteenth-Century Rome. (Exhibition Review).(Bibliography)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: Roworth, Wendy Wassying | Copyright information

The Splendor of Eighteenth-Century Rome

Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 16-May 28, 2000, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 25-September 17, 2000

EDGAR PETERS BOWRON AND JOSEPH J. RISHEL, EDS.

Art in Eighteenth-Century Rome exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; London: Merrell Publishers, 2000). 627 pp.; 208 color ills., 371 b/w. $98.00; $70 paper

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