Cimabue
New York: Abbevile Press Publishers, 1998. Hardcover. Reddish cloth boards with stamped lettering on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, glossy, color illustrated dust jacket, 303 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color illustrations. VG/VG (corrners of block edge slight shelf wear, interior VG+). Item #174631
ISBN: 9780789204660
"Definitive and richly illustrated, this volume is the first extensive examination of Cimabue's work to appear in English in more than thirty years." "Cimabue (c. 1240-1302) was the most admired artist of his time in Tuscany and Central Italy. His paintings and mosaics are seen by some as the last great flowering of Medieval art, and by others as the first works of the Renaissance." "The earthquakes that shook Central Italy in late 1997 struck hardest at the legacy of Cimabue, crumbling his brilliantly-colored paintings in the vault of the Upper Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi. The tragic Florentine flood of 1966 had already destroyed much of the master's famous Santa Croce Crucifix. But in this book a combination of archival and newly commissioned photographs - including pictures of the Assisi vault shot just moments before its collapse - offer a complete panorama of the artist's works, before flood or earthquake damage, and before and after recent restorations."--Publisher's description. Translated from the Italian. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298) and index.
OCLC: 38842211
Price: $240.00