Francis Haskell.
Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion, and Collecting in England and France.
Cornell University Press, 1980. First Cornell paperback printing, with revisions. "The Wrightsman Lectures delivered under the auspices of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts." 0801491878  234 pages.
Softcover volume is in excellent condition. Profusely illustrated.
"This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1976, opens many important questions in its examination of the perennial fluctuations in taste. It is primarily concerned with the hundred years between 1780 and 1880,and investigates why painters such as Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Vermeer, and El Greco, who had long been ignored or despised, were "rediscovered" with extreme enthusiasm in the eighteenth century, while others, such as Guido Reni, dropped  from favor. Francis Haskell examines the phenomenon in historical terms: the influence of Ruskin; the parts played by dealers and financial spectulation; by scholars and collectors; by religious, political, and social affiliations; by the organization of museums and exhibitions; and by the fortuitous accessibility of certain pictures as a result of wars and revolutions."