English art, 1625-1714 / Margaret Whinney and Oliver Millar
1957, First Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; the critic and poetry activist Charles Tomlinson’s wife, Brenda’s copy; signed by her. Item #374187
Physical description: xxi, 391 pages, 96 pages of plates: illustrations; 25 cm. Contents: 1. Aspects of taste -- 2. Inigo Jones -- 3. Domestic and ecclesiastical architecture to 1660 -- 4. Van Dyck in England -- 5. The miniature -- 6. Sculpture and tapestries before the Commonwealth -- 7. Restoration architecture and the great fire -- 8. Lely and Kneller -- 9. New trends in architecture and the applied arts -- 10. Sculpture after 1660 -- 11. Landscape painting and the lesser genres -- 12. Decorative painting -- 13. The culmination of the baroque style in architecture -- Bibliography. Subjects: Art, Modern 17th century History. Art, Modern 18th century History. Art, English 18th century History. Architecture, Domestic England. Church architecture England. Miniature painting.
Price: €35.00