Renaissance Treasury by Laurie Winters, Stated 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog

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...

Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Published by the Yale University Press, 2002. 1st Edition hardcover catalog with dust jacket publishe...

Italian Renaissance ceramics by Wendy M. Watson. Published by Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2001. 1st Ed Exhibition hardcover no d...

Gold, An Illustrated History by Vincent Buranelli. Maplewood: Hammond Incorporated, 1979. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 221 pp. A book on the history and the love of gold. Illustrated are the masterworks of the Egyptians, Thracians, and Roman and Greek treasures along with masterpieces from the Renaissance. Described are the smugglers, grave robbers, sunken treasures...

AUTHOR: PALGRAVE, Francis T. TITLE: The Golden Treasury. PUBLISHER: London: Macmillan & Co., 1908. DESCRIPTION: THE GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES REVISED AND ENLARGED. 1 vol., 6-3/8" x 4-5/8", bound in full vellucent vellum binding, cover...

This is a superb antique edition of 'The Fables' by Jean de La Fontaine, translated into English verse by Walter Thornbury and illustrated throughout by Gustave Doré. A fine, intact ...

1 Volume. John Skelton. Mary Stuart.Bound in full green morocco by Tapley. Top edges gilt, raised bands, ornate floral gilt on covers and spines, limited...

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