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are now so popular that it is difficult to realize how they were originally greeted with ridicule and incomprehension

[This book] provides an excellent introduction for students of conservation or any field dealing with the presentation of art objects

and is the author of Interpreting Rousseau

Discophorus Bust Sculpture medieval book Latin AmericaThis torso of a discus thrower, crafted in a composite material including alabaster, reproduces a fragment of the original bronze statue, now lost. The original marble work was created by the Greek sculptor Naucydes at the beginning of the fourth century BCE, adhering to the canon of ideal beauty proscribed by Polyclitus (fifth century BCE) for an athlete at rest. Here, however, action is imminent; the athlete is portrayed as he is about to throw the