Enfilade

Here’s a selection of new titles from the July 25th issue of the Michael Shamansky catalogue. Shamansky – online as artbooks.com – specializes in monographs, guides, and exhibition catalogues imported from European publishers.

• Viccy Coltman, Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britian since 1760 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 360 pp, 117 illus., $145
• Francesca Nevola, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Grotteschi, the Early Years 1720 to 1750 (Rome: Ugo Bozzi, 2009), 221pp, 166 illus., $123
• Nigel Aston, Art and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Europe (London: Reaktion Books, 2009) 344 pp., 110 illus., $45.00
• Katrin Seibert, Rom besuchen: Italienreisen deutscher Künstlerinnen zwischen 1750 und 1850 (Munich: Meidenbauer, 2009) 2 vols., 473 text, 230 illus., $132
• Lucio Fino, The Myth of Naples in Art and Literature by 17th- to 18th-Century Travelers (Napoli: Grimaldi, 2009) 240pp., 156 color plates, slipcase, English text, $145