The Form of Meaning / The Meaning of Form Vol. 2

Irving Lavin's two-volume collection spans Late Antiquity to 20th-century art, covering Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 16th-century, Baroque, and Modern Art. Notable works are on Late Antique architecture and North African mosaics, Italian Renaissance, and 20th-century art like Picasso's printmaking and Jackson Pollock's painting.

IV. Baroque:|The Baroque Decorations in San Silvestro in Capite, Rome|Review of John Pope-Hennessy, Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture|[with the collaboration of Marilyn Aronberg Lavin] Duquesnoy's Nano di Crequi and Two Busts by Francesco Mochi|[with the collaboration of Marilyn Aronberg Lavin] Pietro da Cortona Documents from the Barberini Archive|Fischer von Erlach, Tiepolo, and the Unity of the Visual Arts|[With Marilyn Aronberg Lavin] Rembrandt's Jewish Bride: Sister and Spouse|Georges de La Tour. The Tears of St. Peter and the 'Occult' Light of Penitence|V. Modern:|Abstraction in Modern Painting. A Comparison|A Fragment, in Paul Suttman. The Master-Pieces . 1981-1991, New York, 1991, 3; Picasso's Lithograph(s): "The Bull(s)" and the History of Art in Reverse|The Body Artist; Storm King: The Genius of the Place|Theodore Aubanel's Les Filles d'Avignon and Picasso's Sum of Destructions|Going for Baroque: Observations on the Post-Modern Fold|VI. Theater:|On the Unity of the Arts and the Early Baroque Opera House|The Campidoglio and Sixteenth-Century Stage Design|Review of Alois Maria Nagler, Theatre Festivals of the Medici 1539-1637|VII. Art History:|When Vatican Art Goes on the Road|Words in Memory of Horst Woldemar Janson|The Art of Art History|Obituary. Howard Hibbard 1928-84|Iconography Group discussion published in The Relationship between Art and Architecture|Iconography as a Humanistic Discipline (Iconography at the Crossroads)|Panofsky's History of Art|The Crisis of Art; Remarks in Celebration of the Centenary of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz|Intoduction to Erwin Panofsky. Three Essays on Style|Panofsky, Gombrich, Bredekamp : D.D.D.|Index