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Italian Renaissance Ceramics: The Howard I.and Janet H.Stein Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Door Wendy Watson

Categorie
Aardewerk & Porcelein
Boeknummer
#361224-AC29
Titel
Italian Renaissance Ceramics: The Howard I.and Janet H.Stein Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Auteur
Watson, Wendy
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
0876331541
ISBN13
9780876331545
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour and b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the fortunate beneficiary of Howard I. and Janet H. Stein's important collection of Italian Renaissance ceramics. This handsome book features the Stein Collection and brings it together, for the first time, with related pieces belonging to the Museum. More than ninety objects, painted in vibrant colors that have survived half a millennium with undiminished brilliance, are reproduced in color and in black and white. Together they represent the various shapes, ornamentation, ambitious compositions, and complex narratives characteristic of a distinguished selection of ceramics from Renaissance Italy.
The history of these objects unfolds in the text by specialist Wendy M. Watson. Included is an original essay by Dean Walker on collecting maiolica in the Unite
... (Lees verder)d States, and a detailed scholarly checklist.
Pagina's
221
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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