The heritage of Apelles
1976, First Edition. Oxford : Phaidon. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-dulled and dust-toned dust-wrapper, with spine uniformly sun-toned, and now mylar-sleeved. Cloth covers sun-toned at the margins, with endpapers faintly foxed. Remains otherwise tight, bright and clean, with especially sharp corners; a well-preserved copy overall. Provenance: from the library of Sir Lawrence Gowing. Item #466769
ISBN: 0714817082
Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 3. Physical description; viii, 250 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index. Contents; Lights and highlights. The heritage of Apelles ; Light, form and texture in fifteenth-century painting north and south of the Alps -- Leonardo da Vinci's method of analysis and permutation ; The form of movement in water and air ; The grotesque heads -- Jerome Bosch's 'Garden of earthly delights' ; The earliest description of the triptych ; 'As was due in the days of Noe' -- Classical rules and rational standards ; From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi ; The leaven of criticism of Renaissance art: texts and episodes ; The pride of Apelles: Vives, Dürer and Bruegel. Subjects; Apelles. Art, Renaissance. Art technique. Composition (Art). 20th century. Illustrated. Colour plates.
Price: €35.00