Author: SCHOLTEN, Frits [Ed.]
Title: SMALL WONDERS - Late-Gothic Boxwood Microcarvings from the Low Countries. - [Irma Boom Office].
Description: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2016. 18 x 12.5 cm. 688 pp. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in b/w and colour. - Book design Irma Boom Office. - Marvels of human ingenuity, so small they can fit in the palm of your hand, miniature boxwood carvings from the early sixteenth century have been filling us with wonder for ages due to the enormous virtuosity with which they were made. - Presenting some 60 statuettes, miniature altars, prayer nuts, monstrances, skulls and other memento mori pendants, Small Wonders is the first publication to focus on these late-medieval, pocketsize carvings from the Low Countries. - Fine copy

Keywords: 9789491714931


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