"The Guide to Imagery series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.

"The purpose of this volume is to provide today's readers and museum-goers with a tool for orienting themselves in the world of images and learning to read the

In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjectiv

This volume examines the ways that sovereign rulers have employed well-defined symbols, attributes, and stereotypes to convey their power to their subjects and

Explores the culture, history, and psychology that lies behind a wide range of symbols.