THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ITALIAN SCHOOLS OF PAINTING (19 Volumes)
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. All volumes: blue cloth/boards; gilt lettering and spine decoration. 17 volumes contain multiple collotypes and bw illustrations, bw frontices, and approx. 400+ to 600+ pp. of text in each volume. Volumes VI and XIX contain no illus. and have fewer pp., as both are indices. NOTE: This set is heavy (47 pounds / 21.5 kilos) and will require extra postage. Good+ clean, bright, crisp and tight; likely never used; art school ex-lib. set with usual marks. Item #20257
Each volume has its own geographical and artist index; Volume VI is the index of iconography for Volumes I through V; Volume XIX (the last volume of the set) provides a general index for all books. An outstanding reference work. V. 1. Western and Eastern early Christian art; V. 2. Duccio di Buoninsegna; V. 3: Giotto; V. 4. Venice and the neighbouring regions; V. 5: Umbria; V. 6. Iconographical index to volumes I-V; V. 7. General considerations; V. 8. Gentile da Fabriano; V. 9. Bicci di Lorenzo, Paolo di Stefano, Dello Delli, Rossello di Jacopo Franchi, Giovanni dal Ponte, Pseudo-Ambrogio di Baldese, the painters of Cassoni and some miniaturists; V. 10. The Classicalism of the Renaissance; V. 11. Piero della Francesca; V. 12. Lorenzo il Magnifico, Botticelli and Savonarola; V. 13. Domenico Ghirlandaio; V. 14. The school of Ottaviano Nelli at Gubbio, the votive painters of the Val di Nera and other regions and the painters of Foligno and of Gualdo Tadino; V. 15. Christoforo da Sanseverino and Angelo da Camerino, Boccati, Gerolamo di Giovanni, Francesco di Gentile, Giovanni Francesco da Rimini, Lorenzo di Alessandro; V. 16. Luca Signorelli; V. 17. Giovanni d'Alemagna and Antonio Vivarini, Quirizio da Murano and Antonio da Negroponte; V. 18. Carlo and Vittorio Crivelli; and V. 19. General Index (each volume with several sub-topics).
OCLC: 191718
Price: $225.00