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Book Title: Caterpillage : Reflections ON Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Harry Berger
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: European / General, European, Subjects & Themes / General
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Art, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 140 Pages
