A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume I: Earlier Renaissance by Paul Holberton Greetings Cards 224 pages with 399 illustrations

224 pages with 399 illustrations

This soft enamel badge takes its design from a painting by the Studio of Boucher

Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads traces the footsteps of the artist through the armouries of the Wallace Collection

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A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume I: Earlier Renaissance by Paul Holberton Greetings Cards 224 pages with 399 illustrationsLong anticipated, Paul Holberton's A History of Arcadia is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature and drama in ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German and English, and of a wide range of visual imagery, ending just before 1800. The book analyses the development of pastoral as a means of representing human happiness on