Concerning Painting: Considerations Theoretical and Historical
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. Hardcover. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Green cloth. xii, 258 pp. 32 bw plates. VG-. Front joint cracked, but binding still secure. Signed with plain name print only bookplate by Jules David Prown, noted art historian. Item #10665
Divided into 3 sections. The 1st section, "What is Painting?," looks at painting as an art of imitation and relation. The 2nd section, "The Golden Age of Painting," examines Renaissance art, the Venetians, and Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th-century. The 3rd section, "Some Phases of 19th-Century Painting," talks about naturalism in the 19th-century, lovers of tradition and mural painting in France and America. Contains many 32 excellent plates, including "The Libyan Sibyl" by Michelangelo, with tissue guard.
OCLC: 1591504
Price: $75.00