558 pp. text on 15th-century painting in and near Genoa, its emergence from the Middle Ages, foreign influences, in particular Flemish, and Lorenzo Fasolo, Carlo Braccesco, and their contemporaries, ext. notes, appendix of bio-bibliographical notices on the artists, chronological bibliography, index, 446 illus. (a considerable number in color). Large 4to..... More
The first volume from a three-volume set on the art of Brazil, 296 pp., edited and with an introduction by Rodrigo M. F. de Andrade, this volume containing essays on archaeology, indigenous art, Portuguese antecedents, furniture, goldsmithing, ceramics, and other topics, contributors include Frederico Barata, Gastão Cruls, Cecilia Meireles, Reinaldo..... More
192 pp. catalogue, by O.G. Gangoly, of the paintings of the museum, including Mughal, Persian, Deccani and Rajput works, bibliographic notes, 64 plates (5 in color). 4to. Boards, chipped. Baroda (the Government Press) 1961. More
Unpaginated introduction by Johann Gustav Droysen to a series of plates illustrating the mid-19th century murals in the Konigsschloss, Dresden by Eduard Bendemann, 12 highly detailed plates in excellent condition showing a variety of Classical subjects and a plan detailing their placement. Oblong folio. Boards, edges slightly rubbed. N.p., n.d...... More
1957. 4 vols.: Venetian School. 2 vols., XIV, 206 pp. text, 46 pp. topographical index, 1336 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color); and Florentine School. 2 vols., XIV, 222 pp. text, 39 pp. topographical index, 1480 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color). Small 4to. Cloth. London/New York (Phaidon)..... More
LXIX, XCIX, 729 pp. survey of 17th- and 18th-century German art, incl. essays by Biermann, Adolf Feulner, Albert Brinckmann, and Anton Kippenberg, indices of the artists and their works with brief biographical data and descriptions, 1326 illus., and 32 fine heliogravure plates showing paintings, pastels, drawings, miniatures, sculpture, silhouettes, and..... More
Poussin. 271 pp. catalogue, including the sculptures and lost and wrongly attributed paintings, extensive bibliography, indices, 248 illus. on plates, with: Nicolas Poussin. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. 2 vols., XXIV, 431, XX, 27 pp. papers, notes, appendices of documents, letters, contemporary criticism, etc., bibliography, list..... More
LVI pp. text on painted decorations from the province of Vaud, Switzerland ranging from the Romanesque period to the 18th century, with bibliographic notes, index, and illus. on 24 nice color plates showing motifs and architectural decorations. Folio. Boards portfolio, spine and edges rubbed, spine cracked. Lausanne (Librairie F. Rouge..... More
Mosbrugger. 247 pp. monograph on the painters from southwest Germany, notes, oeuvre catalogues ca. 1790-1860, family trees, index, 108 illus. on plates (12 plates in color). Small 4to. Cloth, d.j. Weissenhorn (Konrad) 1974. In its early development the work of this family of artists (spelt interchangeably Mosbrugger or Moosbrugger) resembles..... More
Brief introductory text on the Bridgewater House Collection of Pictures followed by 120 full-page plates reproducing artwork in the Bridgewater House collection, each plate accompanied by a brief contextual caption and each artist represented by a thorough biography. Oversized folio. Full leather with raised spine, edgewear, abrasions, some small splitting..... More
xv, 206 pp. catalogue and description of the paintings in the new Vatican art gallery, heavily annotated, with index, 63 text illustrations, 126 fine plates including 10 in full color. Folio. Leather-backed boards, binding professionally repaired, some edgewear and chipping, contents in good condition. Bergamo (Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche) 1914..... More
180 pp. volume (42cm x 50cm) on the Dutch painter, with photogravures scattered throughout the text, accompanied by full of list of plates with page numbers and owners of the works noted, half-title, photogravure portrait by M. Van der Maarel. Folio. Vellum with gilt and blindstamp decoration. Edgewear, soiling, abrasions..... More
346 pp. study of 17th century developments in the coastal town in the Marche region of Italy, including a compendium of essays on art, architecture, goverment, and religious and secular life, including essays, extensive annotation and documentation, bibliography, indices, and over 100 illustrations in the text and on plates (many..... More
Rubens. CVIII pp. introductory text, 458 pp. transcriptions of documents relating to the activities of one of the leading Flemish art dealers and connoisseurs of the 17th century, notes, index, 17 plates. Large 8vo. Wrpps. Antwerp (Sikkel) 1949. (Bronnen voor de Geschiedenis van de Vlaamsche Kunst V). Arntzen H 204..... More
Borrani. X, 520 pp. monograph on the 19th-century Italian painter, including a fully illustrated descriptive catalogue of 617 attributed drawings and paintings, detailed biographical chronology, notes, bibliography, index, portrait frontispiece, ca. 135 additional illus. (45 full-page in color) from works and many documentary photographs. Large 4to. Cloth (spine shaken and..... More
149 pp. monograph (in Serbian) on the 13th-century monastery church in the district of Novi Pazar in western Serbia and its outstanding wall paintings, notes, summary in English, list of illus. in Serbian and English, over 25 text illus. incl. plans, inscriptions, etc., 19 pp. of schematic drawings with bilingual..... More
78 pp. descriptive monograph on the Pinturicchio fresco cycle in the lavish 15th century Borgia Apartments, heavily annotated, lists, numerous text illus. (1 with color) after portraits, drawings, medals, signatures, etc., 133 fine plates (4 color, many in tones), bound out of order, showing maps, interior views, details of the..... More
Jaquerio. Turin: Fratelli Pozzo, 1966. 4to. Cloth. 164 pp., profusely illustrated. Giacomo Jaquerio was an Italian medieval painter active in the early 1400s, and was one of the main proponents of the International style of Gothic painting in Piedmont. Featuring more than 134 plates (a handful in color) and numerous..... More
1898. Boilly. 230 pp. monograph on the genre painter, descriptive catalogue of over 1300 works incl. paintings exhibited at the Salons 1791-1824, notes, list of engravings, lithographs, etc., after Boilly, index, 30 illus. in the text and on plates. Some foxing throughout. 4to. Orig. printed wrpps., top of front cover..... More
Jongkind. 268 pp. thesis on the Dutch-born, peripatetic painter, based on his ample and largely self-centered correspondence with other Parisian painters and art dealers, notes, appendix of docs., index, bibl., portrait frontispiece, 21 annotated plates of paintings, documents, etc. 8vo. Wrpps. Utrecht (Dekker & Gumbert) 1968. Freitag 5782. More
2 vols., irregularly paginated, collection of over 50 Academy lectures and other papers, largely on subjects in Flemish and Dutch art, some annotated, some nicely illustrated. Large 8vo. Wrpps. n.p. ca. 1870-1913. These are offprints from various learned journals and series, most in their original covers, made available in this..... More
204 pp. text on a significant cycle of early wall paintings in Pendzhikent, Samarkand in what was then Soviet Central Asia (now Uzbekistan), contributions by several noted scholars, extensive notes, bibliography, 28 text illustrations after line drawings, 41 plates (some folding, some in color) showing photographs, line drawings, color charts..... More
6 vols., with approx. 390 superb plates (30 in color, the others in photogravure on fine paper) accompanied by interleaved commentary on the objects, documenting the major collection of mostly Japanese, with some Chinese, art including paintings, lacquerwork, sculpture, ceramics, etc. Large folio. Silk-covered boards, elaborately tie-bound in the Japanese..... More
(IV), 132 pp. text on the origin and development of Pahari painting, and on Mehta and the evolution of his collection, detailed and annotated descriptions of illustrated works, and 121 illustrations on plates (12 in color). 4to. Illus. cloth. Ahmedabad (Gujarat Museum Society) ca. 1982. More
216, VII pp. Cyrillic-language reference volume on iconography of the Virgin Mary in Greek and Russian church art and its connection to early Italian Renaissance painting, by the well-known Russian icon scholar. Scholarly notes with bibliographic information. Illustrated profusely throughout with close to 150 text illustrations, primarily reproductions from photographs..... More