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David Freedberg

The Eye of the Lynx

Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History

2003
Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program
528 pages, 83 color plates, 89 halftones  7 x 10  © 2002, 2003

Paper $34.00

ISBN: 9780226261485   Published September 2003

David Freedberg is a professor of art history and director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. His books include The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response, also published by the University of Chicago Press; The Prints of Bruegel the Elder; Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (with Jan de Vries); Rubens: The Life of Christ after the Passion; and Dutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century.
Awards
  • PROSE Book Award
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
  • SIHS/Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prizes in Italian Hist
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards
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