Vitale da Bologna and Bolognese Painting in the Fourteenth Century
New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1964 circa. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards; Color illus. dj. with mylar cover; 80 pp. plus plates; 49 color, 144 bw plates and figures. Gilt on some of the color plates; weighs 5.5 lbs. VG- / VG- (Moderate wear to dj., including several short tears at extremities). Mylar has protected DJ well, though. Ex-library with few marks, which include text block stamps, stamps and marks on back endpaper, and pencil cataloguing info on title page. Text pages, but not plates, have half-inch halo of toning. Item #129204
Presents Vitale da Bologna [d. 1361] in his full stature as both artist and innovator -- from his beginnings under the varied influences of Giotto, the Rimini school of painters, and other fourteen-century art through the stages of his artistic evolution and development. The author also traces the inspiration which he drew from the great Sienese and French Gothic works of his time. The strong personal element that breaks through Vitale's work casts a new light on the tenor of life and art in fourteenth-century Bologna -- a city famous for its highly developed cultural climate, open to the most diverse influences, yet lacking a local tradition in the art of painting. However, the city of Bologna found in Vitale the initiator of an idiomatic style based on an original imagination, and a more fluid relationship between imagination and learning, emotion and intellect." (dj) Lavishly illustrated.
Price: $140.00