On Quality in Art: Criteria of Excellence Past and Present (Bollingen Series XXXV.13)
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Second Printing. Hardcover. Taupe cloth/boards. Gilt lettering on spine. White dj with black text on spine. 264 pp. with 164 bw and 4 color illustrations. NF/Good (Dj has general age toning/rubbing and a one-inch tear at head of spine). Item #150356
The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1964 of the Bollingen Series. Note: 1969 printing. The four color plates are the last 4 illustrations in the book. Two are by Picasso, and two by Kandinsky. Vibrant! Rosenberg was Curator of Prints at the Fogg Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard. He was a leading authority in Dutch and German art. His study for these lectures was concerned with the problem of artistic excellence and of how to make a valid judgment of quality. His representative works, from each century, beginning with the Renaissance, include Giorgio Vasari, Roger de Piles, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Theophile Thore, and Rogery Fry. Drawings are by Durer, Raphael, Leonardo, Rubens, Rembrandt, watteau, Degas, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Marin.
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