Colton, Judith [1943 - ] - The Parnasse François: Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1979. orig.cloth. 26x18cm, xx,252,(25)pp, Small bumps to binding corners.. 49pp photoplates. Somer rubbing. In a torn dustwrapper. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Backround: Titon's Life; The Story of the Project; Titon's Critical Fortunes; Iconography: The Parnassus & Its Population; Other Parnassian Festivals & Projects; From the Quarrel of the Ancients & the Moderns to the Louis XIV Revival; The Multifigure Monument: The Real & Fictive Authors: Titon's Ideas on Group Sculpture; Antique Precedents & Their Renaissance Settings; Girardon's Apollo & the Nymphs of Thetis; The Rococo Sublime; Additional Statuettes & Later History; Heroes & Hero- Worship: The 'Essais sur les honneurs': Titon's Legacy.