The immediate occasion, or should I sayjustification, of this retrospective is E. H. Gombrich's most recent volume, The Image and the Eye (1982). Its subtitle, Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, refers us back to his landmark volume, Art and Illusion (1960), which bore the subtitle A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. His more recent volume, then, suggests a return to those problems, which he never really left, and permits us the sense that he is completing the tracing of his theoretical circle. It remains to be seen, however, whether he has come full circle or has, instead, returned to a different place from where he began in 1956, when he delivered the Mellon Lectures which became Art and Illusion.