Author: Tomasi, Michele
Title: Monumenti D'Avorio : I Dossali Degli Embriachi E I Loro Committenti
Description: Pisa, Italy, Edizioni Della Normale, 2010. Softcover. Glued wraps with color illustration and French flaps inside both covers. (1) 2-442 pp. Chiefly text with 77 b+w plates at end of book. "Around 1400, some of the most powerful princes of the time commissioned altarpieces carved in bone and ivory from the workshop of the Embriachi family, originally from Florence. The uncles of the King of France, Jean, Duke of Berry, and Philippe, Duke of Burgundy, and the Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, competed with each other in offering these sumptuous pieces to the churches they protected in Poissy, Dijon, and Pavia. The book studies these altarpieces systematically for the first time and presents some previously unpublished ones, investigating their iconography, patronage, destination, but also the complex events they have gone through over the centuries between disinterest and rediscovery." - translated from abstract. VG+ some pen on front endpage .

Keywords: European Art ; Renaissance Art ; ; General Art - European


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