THTRE D'AMOUR: The Garden of Love and Its Delights: Rediscovery of a Lost Book from the Age of the Baroque
Carsten-Peter Warncke, . . Taschen, $29.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-3-8228-3572-2
It's probably French, and it's beautiful. This set of 143 love-related, hand-colored engravings from the 17th century—many with verse commentary (in French and Latin) ranging from bawdily hilarious to truly heartbreaking—was compiled as a book around 1620, and is lovingly printed in facsimile, with German scholar Warncke's transcriptions, translations and commentary
Reviewed on: 02/28/2005
Genre: Nonfiction