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FLEMISH PAINTING FROM BOSCH TO RUBENS (Skira; $25) has 112 eye-filling color reproductions, mostly good. Text contains a maximum of mere information and a minimum of thought, as is all too common with art books. The gigantic hero, overshadowing both Bosch and Rubens should of course be Bruegel, but he occupies only 22 pages out of 202, and his essential mysticism is barely hinted. But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable...
PARIS IN THE PAST, by Pierre Courthion, translated by James Emmons (149 pp.; Skira; $6.50), and PARIS IN OUR TIME, by Pierre Courthion, translated by Stuart Gilbert (142 pp.; Skira; $6.50), suggest that, if poets make the best historians, then perhaps a city's best tourist guides are her painters. The mind's eye of genius is bound to catch some ineffable quality that the traveler, with or without camera, is bound to miss. That is the premise of these two books, with their 144 handsome color reproductions of Paris from the 14th to the 20th centuries, around...
Such details help make Egyptian tomb painting easy for moderns to take. It presents a surprisingly vivid picture of what life in ancient Egypt was like, but color reproductions have been hard to find. A lavishly illustrated book out next week, Egyptian Painting (Skira; $20), will give many readers their first close-up view of the subject. The book concentrates on the necropolis hewn from the hills west of Thebes during the New Kingdom (circa 1500-1100 B.C.). There, over 400 mausoleums deep inside the rock show scenes from the lives of the dead, and of the eternal life they...