Sheard (Wendy Stedman)
Smith College, Museum of Art (Northamptonshire, MA)

(28 cm), [240] pp., illustrations. 129 catalogue entries. “Addenda et corrigenda” loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Exhibition of manuscripts, drawings, engravings, sculpture, one painting, and two furniture panels. The entries are presented in categories corresponding to stages in the revival of antiquity in the Renaissance: Cyriac of Ancona and the beginnings of archaeology; Mantegna: his context and influence; recording and reproducing antiquities; the figure in repose and action; the 16th century canon; portraiture; antique subjects and their transformations: myth, history, pastoral; fantasy and Allegories all’antica and Antique revival in architectural theory. ¶ Very good copy.