Greece and Rome Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 1st Ed

Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century by Museum of Fine Arts Staff; Edgar Peters Bowron; Joseph J. Rishel and Philadelphia Museum of Art Staff. Published by Philadelphia Museum of Ar...

‘American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ by Albert TenEyck Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1965. First Edition, 1st printing...

Vatican Museums, Rome. New York: Newsweek, Inc.,1968. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 172 pp. A beautiful book by Newsweek as part of a series called 'Great Museums of the World.' It illustrates the Papal treasures in the museums and galleries that make up the Vatican Museums. It includes marble statues, frescoes, Medieval manuscripts...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Renaissance in the North. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1987. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. At roughly the same time that Italian art was beginning to reflect a reawakening of the classical spirit—an epoch and style we call the Renaissance—the arts of Northern Europe were experiencing their own efflorescence. Painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts were pursued with a new vigor in the Netherlands, in Germany, in France, and in England, and resulted in a vast body of work that constitutes one of the glories of Western civilization. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the masters of the North developed styles quite distinct from those in the South: an attention to minute detail, particularly with regard to landscape, but also in domestic interiors; and an emotive piety that dramatized the sorrow and suffering of the Passion. Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment present a horrific vision of the death of Christ and the damnation of sinners, set against a deep and distant landscape, sensitively and realistically rendered. The Lamentation by Petrus Christus...

Art Treasures of the World by Paul Hamlyn. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1968 by Hamlyn Publishing Group of Middlesex, United Kingdom. Pri...

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Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1996 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. of New York. 289 illust...

Master Drawings and Watercolors in the British Museum, Fra Angelico to Henry Moore. Softcover book, published in 1984 by British Museum Publications Ltd of Bloomsbury Street, London....