Venus and Apollo In Painting and Sculpture
London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1897. No. 186 of 555 copies. Hardcover. 1/2 Gilt embossed vellum with red gilt embossed cloth covers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed xviii, 170 pp., color frontis and 40 tissue guarded bw photogravure plates (31 paintings and 9 statues). Measures 17.8" x 13.25" x 2" (45.2 x33.7 x 5 cm). VG- some bumping to the tips, some soiling to covers and vellum spine, few smudge spots but very tight and fresh otherwise FFEP has a significant tear, but no loss. Item #175187
Includes works by the following, each of whom is given a biographical notice (Number mof illustrations in brackets if more than 1): Giovanni Bellini, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Andrea Mantegna, Alessandro Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli, Frontis), Piero Di Lorenzo (Piero Di Cosimo), Vecelli Tiziano (Titian) (4), Barbarelli, Palma, Garafolo, Francia Bigio, Raffaello Sanzio, or Giovannia Santi (Raphael) (3), Correggio, Carrucci, Giulio Romano, Bronzino, Tintoretto, Cagliari, Guido Reni, Albano, Romanelli; Flemish School - Peter Paul Rubens; Spanish School - Diego Rodriguez De Silva Y Velazquez; French School - Nicolas Poussin (2), Robert Le Fevre; Dutch-Italian School - Lambert Sustris; English School - Sir Edward Burne-Jones + 9 Statues.
OCLC: 2110161
Price: $250.00