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Begging to join the groaning shelves this week:

Maurizio Bettini (1999):

The Portrait of the Lover

I've wanted to read this since I read this review.

I reckon this would go with it:

 

George L. Hersey (2009):
Falling in Love with Statues:
Artificial Humans from Pygmalion to the Present.
Reviewed here.