Author: Fogg Art Museum
Title: Collection Of Mediaeval [ Medieval ] And Renaissance Paintings
Description: Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass)., 1919, 1st edition. Cloth spined boards, VG. xxiv+356pp, b/w frontis, 57pp b/w plates showing 70 images, 2 folding maps, index, edges rubbed & paper spine label a little stained, neat corrective marginalia by Dr C H Clough, laid in are 2 TLS from W Forster Antiquarian Bookseller of London dated 1970 concerning the book, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Authoritative catalogue of the 66 Byzantine & European Medieval & Renaissance paintings which made up the Fogg collection in the early 20th century. Each school [ Byzantine, Italian split into - Florentine, Sienese, Umbrian, North Italian, Venetian, Spanish, German, French, Flemish, and English ] is given an introduction before the individual paintings are described in detail, with artist biography.

Keywords: medieval art, painting, old masters, renaissance art