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Heaven and the flesh : imagery of desire from the renaissance to the rococo
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Heaven and the flesh : imagery of desire from the renaissance to the rococo

by Clive Hart, Kay Stevenson

An illustrated survey of the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art, literature, philosophy and theology from the High Renaissance to the birth of Romanticism.

Accession 4195 ISBN 9780521070942 Publisher Cambridge University Press
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