FS: Medieval and Renaissance Art Books
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Ginzburg, Carlo. Translated by Martin Ryle and Kate Soper.
The Enigma of Piero: Piero della Francesca. The Baptism, The Arezzo Cycle,
The Flagellation.
London: Verso, 1985.
1st paperback edition. Very good tight trade paperback. Wear to edges of
covers and some scuffing and some rubbing and scratching along the spine. Text
is clean but with some foxing on page edges. 164 pages with plates, endnotes
after each chapter, and index. An interesting study of Piero della Francesca's
three great paintings and the circumstances surrounding their creations in
fifteenth century Italy. $15.00.
Guillard, Georges.
Romanesque Painting: The Frescoes of Saint-Savin, the Nave.
Studio Publications, Inc., 1944.
Good oversized hardcover in red library binding without dust jacket.
Ex-library with all the usual flaws, marks, and stamps associated with that
condition. Slight bow to boards. Also slight roll to spine. Wear and rubbing
to edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of spine and also
corners of the covers. Cover panels are scuffed. Foxing and browning to
pages. 22 pages of text with illustrations, bibliography, and 20 color plates.
The text is in English and French. Volume 2 in a series on Romanesque
painting, this volume examines the frescoes in the nave of the church of
Saint-Savin in France. $35.00.
Gutmann, Joseph.
Images of the Jewish Past: An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Miniatures.
New York: Society of Jewish Bibliophiles, 1965.
1st edition. Very good oversized hardcover in brownish cloth without dust
jacket. Light wear to edges of the boards, light bumping to head and heel of
spine, moderate scuffing to covers, inch long tear in binding on the spine.
Foxing to edges of the pages, name of previous owner written on front pasted
down endpaper, last page has water stainmarks. 22 plates and bibliography with
introductory essay. An interesting examination of miniature illustrations in
Jewish books from the Middle Ages. $60.00.
Mason, James; Henry Bryan Binns, and Maurice W. Brockwell. Edited by T. Lemen
Hare.
Three Great Florentine Painters: Fra Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., no date.
Possible 1st edition. Published before 1912. Good hardcover in red-brown
cloth without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with moderate
bumping to head and heel of the spine, light scuffing to panels, and stainmark
near heel of spine. Heavy foxing to page edges and endpapers. Pages are
lightly browned and in the second half of the book many sets of two pages are
uncut/unseperated. Split in binding/hinge between pages 16-17 in the
Botticelli section. Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Fra
Angelico section has 80 pages with plates. Botticelli section has 77 pages
with plates and footnotes. Leonardo da Vinci section has 80 pages with plates.
Three brief accounts of the lives and works of the great Florentine artists:
Fra Angelico (1387-1455), Sandro Botticelli (c.1444-1510), and Leonardo da
Vinci (1452-1519). $50.00.
Michel, P. H.
Romanesque Painting: The Frescoes of Tavant.
Studio Publications, Inc., 1944.
Good oversized hardcover in red library binding without dust jacket.
Ex-library with all the usual flaws, marks, and stamps associated with that
condition. Wear and rubbing to edges of the boards with bumping to the head
and heel of spine and also corners of the covers. Cover panels are scuffed.
Foxing and browning to pages. Binding is splitting between pages 4-5 in French
section. 24 pages of text with footnotes, bibliography, illustrations, and 19
color plates. The text is in English and French. Volume 1 in a series on
Romanesque painting, this volume examines the frescoes in a crypt at Tavant in
France. $45.00.
Rosenberg, Charles M., editor.
Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: 1250-1500.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.
1st edition. Very good hardcover without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing
to edges of the boards with some bumping to head and heel of spine. 231 pages
with illustrations, endnotes after each essay, and a list of contributors. A
collection of 12 papers presented at the Notre Dame conference in medieval
studies by such famous scholars as Richard Trexler, John Larner, and Jonathan
B. Riess. There are articles on "Republicanism and Tyranny in Signorelli's
Rule of the Antichrist," "Piety and Politics in the Art of Giovanni Bellini,"
"A Tale of Two Cities: Verona and Padua in the late Middle Ages," and
"Insignia of Power: The Use of Heraldic and Paraheraldic Devices by Italian
Princes, c. 1350-c. 1500." $25.00.
Theophilus. Translated by John G. Hawthorne and Cyril Stanley Smith.
On Divers Arts: The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking and
Metalwork.
New York: Dover Publications, 1979.
The Dover edition is reprint of the original edition published by University of
Chicago Press in 1963. Good trade paperback. Wear to edges of covers with
some scuffing to panels. Light foxing to edges of pages and slight waterstains
on upper edges of last few pages. 216 pages with illustrations, notes,
bibliography, and index. On Divers Arts (c. 1122) was written by a Benedictine
monk named Theophilus about the crafts of painting, glassworking, and
metalworking. For the most part, this work is sound technically with only a
few bits of medieval superstition and folklore. (back cover blurb). $15.00.
Waters, W. G.
Italian Sculptors. Second Edition.
London: Methuen & Co. LTD., 1926.
2nd edition. (first edition appeared 1911). Fair hardcover without dust
jacket. Wear on edges of boards and bumping to head and heel of spine. Some
seperation between the head of the spine and the binding. Split in binding
between pages 80 and 81. Considerable foxing on page edges and some foxing
spots on the pages themselves. Pages are also browned. Bookplate of previous
owner on front endpaper. 285 pages (+7 more pages of advertisements) with
illustrations and an index. An alphabetical lsiting of various Italian
Scupltors from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era. Each entry includes the
sculptor's birth and death dates if known and location along with a brief entry
about the subject's life and work. $15.00.
Wittkower, Rudolf and Margot.
Born Under Saturn : the Character and Conduct of Artists - A Documented History
from Antiquity to the French Revolution.
London : Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1963.
1st edition . Very good in very good price clipped dust jacket. Binding and
page edges have some wear to edges and corners. Covers slightly scuffed. Dj
has more wear to edges and corners, and chipping at head and tail of spine. 344
p. w/illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. A detailed study of painters,
sculptors, and architects from classical history to the late 19th century,
examining "where, when and why did the concept of a typical artists arise, and
what have been distinguishing features" (from the dj flap) such as poverty,
genius, mnadness, love, patronage, and more. The authors used letters,
biographies, documents, and history of art works for their research. Uncommon
book on an interesting topic. $50.00.
Yassin, Robert A., editor. Essays and catalogue by Clifton C. Olds, Egon
Verheyen, and Warrem Tresidder.
Durer's Cities: Nuremberg and Venice.
Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1971.
1st printing. Very good oversized softcover. Browning to edges of covers and
spine, light scuffing to covers, and light wear to edges of the covers. 63
pages of text and about 49 pages of illustrations with endnnotes after each
essay. A catalog with essays on the art and life of German Renaissance artist,
Albrecht Durer. $15.00.
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