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Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterraneanto the Indus. Ed. by Joan Aruz, with Ronald Wallenfels. 564 pp., 712ills. (535 in color).Cultivated Landscapes: Chinese Paintings from the Collection of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill. Maxwell K. Hearn. 224 pp., 175 ills. (77 in color).Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture. Alisa LaGamma. 128 pp.,89 ills. (77 in color).Goddess: The Classical Mode. Harold Koda. 224 pp., 113 ills. (85 in color).The Janice H. Levin Collection of French Art. Richard Shone. 160 pp.,115 ills. (50 in color).The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia,1256 – 1353. Ed. by Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni. 336 pp.,280 ills. (200 in color).Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman. Ed. by Carmen C. Bambach,with contributions by Carmen C. Bambach, Alessandro Cecchi, ClaireFarago, Varena Forcione, Martin Kemp, Anne-Marie Logan, Pietro C.Marani, Carlo Pedretti, Carlo Vecce, Françoise Viatte, and Linda Wolk-Simon and with the assistance of Rachel Stern and Alison Manges.800 pp., 515 ills. (333 in color).Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of U.S.S. Kearsarge andC.S.S. Alabama. Juliet Wilson-Bareau, with David C. Degener. 86 pp.,66 ills. (35 in color).Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. Gary Tinterowand Geneviève Lacambre, with Deborah L. Roldán and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, and Jeannine Baticle, Marcus B. Burke, Ignacio Cano Rivero,Mitchell A. Codding, Trevor Fairbrother, María de los Santos GarcíaFelguera, Stéphane Guégan, Ilse Hempel Lipschutz, DominiqueLobstein, Javier Portús Pérez, H. Barbara Weinberg, and MatthiasWeniger. 608 pp., 727 ills. (380 in color).Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw andOther Notable New York Collections. Emma C. Bunker, with contributionsby James C. Y. Watt and Zhixin Sun. 248 pp., 240 ills. (175 in color).The Prints of Vija Celmins. Samantha Rippner. 56 pp., 50 ills. (35 incolor).A Private Passion: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from theGrenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University. Ed. by StephanWolohojian, with the assistance of Anna Tahinci. 560 pp., 440 ills.(259 in color).