François Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Thematic study of the art of the seventeenth-century Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy and his pursuit in Rome of a modern artistic practice in "the Greek manner." The book reconstructs the understanding of Greek art between 1550 and 1750 and the contributions of Duquesnoy's circle to the coalescence of the Greek ideal within European culture. This seventeenth-century vision of Greek art is shown to have formed the basis of Johann Joachim Winckelmann's early understanding of the formal perfections of Greek sculpture, overturning the longstanding assumption that no meaningful distinction between ancient Greek and Roman art was made prior to Winckelmann's work in the eighteenth century.