A Cornucopia for a Polymath: Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and Art

Name: A Cornucopia for a Polymath: Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and Art
Brand: Archaeopress

Archaeopress

This book celebrates John Mitchell on his 80th birthday. The festschrift brings together some of his army of undergraduate and graduate students, his fellow-travellers in the bi-ways of art history, his companions and colleagues on archaeological excavations and also a few admirers who have simply revelled in his friendship. The breadth of papers speaks volumes. John Mitchell describes himself as a jobbing art historian. It is a modest explanation to his peers as to why, while still working on the art historical canon from Anglo-Saxon bibles and crosses to Rembrandt, he has ventured far and wide into a field that he likes to describe, with a chuckle, as knick-knacks. This cornucopia of interests, as this volume attests, is quite simply remarkable. He has mastered Roman mosaics, late\n\nA Cornucopia for a Polymath: Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and Art History for John Burnett Mitchell\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK deliv;