Beschreibung
Due to weight I can only suppy within UK, no extra postage above standard charge. Dust jacket unclipped, now in a clear protective sleeve, chunks missing at edges, repairs. Original cloth with bright gilt titling. No ownership inscription. 85 Plates in Colour, 8 Plates in Gold & Silver, 42 Plates in b/w. 233 pages clean and tight. THIS VOLUME will surely take its place as one of the most fascinating art books of our time. It explores one of those artistic realms which have somehow come to be known as "the minor arts"-but which, nevertheless, are the products of exalted states of mind, and have enriched human existence from the beginnings of recorded history. Man has always been fascinated by the luxury of gold and precious stones and has striven to transmute them into objects of beauty. Sometimes they have been demonstrations of devotion, sacred articles enriching the majesty of the House of God; others, the outward show of wealth, the decor of princes and the domestic apparatus of rank and power. Whether sacred or profane, the art of the Italian goldsmith stands alone ui its bravura handling of the material. It is an exotic art, of sensuous colouring touched occasionally, to our taste, with vulgarity, but it is a vulgarity reflecting a civilisation of extremes caught for ever in a passionate splendour of gold and jewels. Not less magic than the works themselves are the reproductions in this book. Every last detail is conveyed without losing the sense of the whole, and whether the piece is of glass or stone or metal, the quality ofthe material is miraculously transmitted. Colour engraving and colour printing have here been carried to a perfection that is startling, and it is almost true to say that the reader can see the objects better in these colour plates than, in most cases, he could see them in the originals. The masterpieces of Italian craftsmen illustrated here range from twelfth-century altar-pieces rich with enamel, to vases of jasper and amethyst of the fifteenth; from the incomparable saltcellar of Benvenuto Cellini to the Treasure of the Grand Duke of Tuscany: together a miniature museum of the jeweled arts. The text is by Dr. Filippo Rossi, the eminent soprititendente of the museums and galleries of Florence, Pistoia and Arezzo, an outstanding authority on Italian art. Size: Lge 4to. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 125226
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: Italian Jeweled Arts
Verlag: Thames and Hudson, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1957
Einband: Hard Cover
Illustrator: 85 Plates in Colour, 8 Plates in Gold & Silver, 42 Plates in b/w .
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good
Auflage: First Edition.
