The English face
Piper, David, 1918-1992
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The author considers how the face has been depicted by portrait painters, miniaturists, sculptors, caricaturists and photographers over the past 500 years and shows how every age has its own ideal standard of beauty influenced by changing fashions in dress, manners and artistic taste.
Main title:
The English face / David Piper ; edited by Malcolm Rogers
Imprint:
London : National Portrait Gallery, 1992.
Collation:
264p : ill, ports ; 28cm.
Notes:
Blbliography: p258-259. - Includes index.
ISBN:
185514008X (cased)185514008X1855140098 (pbk)
Dewey class:
704.942 PIP704.942 PIP .914
Language:
English
BRN:
3429115