Sight & insight : essays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85 / edited by John Onians.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'I wonder ...' : a short history of amazement / John Onians -- A rare bronze kouros and the prehistory of the Devil / Marian Wenzel -- Idols and likenesses : origin, Homilies on Exodus VIII.3, and its reception / Carlo Ginzburg -- Fictive painting in twelfth-century Paris / Michael Evans -- A palaeographer's odyssey / A. .C. de la Mare -- Sicut erat in diebus Antonii : the devils under the bridge in the Tribulations of St Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch in Lisbon / Jean Michel Massing -- Fine art and festivity in Renaissance Venice : the artist's part / Jennifer M. Fletcher -- A new document about Titian's Pieta / Charles Hope -- Van Dyck's Continence of Scipio as a metaphor of statecraft at the early Stuart court / David Kunzle -- From Panassus to Careggi : a seventeenth-century celebration of Plato and Renaissance Florence / Elizabeth McGrath -- Coming into line : graphic demonstrations of skill in Renaissance and Baroque engravings / Martin Kemp -- The failure of colour / David Freedberg -- Nature, dreams and realities : ambiguities of visual imagery in seventeenth-century Sweden / Allan Ellenius -- Composition, perspective and presence : observations on early academic theory in France / Thomas Puttfarken -- Interpretations of Timanthes's Sacrifice of Iphigenia / Jennifer Montagu -- No telling, with Tiepolo / Svetlana Alpers -- Herder's Plastik / Michael Podro -- Dolls and things : the reification and disintegration of sculpture in Rodin and Rilke / Alex Potts -- 'Decadence in India' : reflections on a much-used work in studies of Indian art / Parth Mitter -- Fixation and distraction : the nail in Braque's Violin and pitcher (1910) / Michael Baxandall.