Bresil Baroque: Entre Ciel et Terre / Brasil Barroco: Entre Ceu e Terra (2 Volumes)
Paris: Uniao Latina - Petit Palais, 1999. Slipcased. Both volumes: Glossy cornflower blue boards with color image; white and chartreuse lettering. Text Volume: 222 pp. with no illustrations, except for one bw map; Plate Volume: 518 pp. with 330 color figures on glossy plates. Housed in aboard slipcase covered in glossy black paper with color images and white/cornflower lettering. Heavy and will require eye-popping amounts of postage. (13 pounds / 5.9 kilos). Text Volume NF; Plate Volume VG- (pristine interior but with badly-bumped binding and a hint of wear in some edge spots; binding is well-sewn and secure, in spite of bump); Slipcase: light rubbing and with a few scuffs to bottom. Item #153335
Text volume is entirely in Portuguese. Plate volume is entirely in French (same content as Portuguese volume) and with all the plates. A beautiful set with exquisite plates. Exhibition catalogue/s of 1999-2000, published to coincide with and celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil. With the usual prefaces by all sorts of government folk, three introductions, and 11 scholarly essays. With notes on the many works (paintings, architecture, indigenous items, letters and documents, carvings, sculptures, triptychs, ivory, gold, silver, wood, and more. Many of the works are images of saints or other religious subjects. Includes a chronology of Brazil from 1494 to 1889.
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