Author: TOMLINSON, AMANDA
Title: The Mediaeval [Sic] Face [the Medieval Face]
Description: London: National Portrait Gallery, 1974. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0904017028. Softcover is heavy, glazed black paper, with white lettering on front. Pages are clean and tight, with signs of nominal use. Has 48 b/w photographs, many of them full page sized. Preface written by John Hayes. "Portraiture, in the accepted sense, did not form part of the repertoire of the majority of mediaeval artists...this exhibition emphasizes the change which took place over several centuries, in the way in which artists in various media saw and presented both their contemporaries and predecessors. There is a marked development, within this period, from extreme stylization to almost total naturalism, and with this can be sensed an ever increasing interest in the individuality of the human face". Portraits are taken from books, stained glass, statues, paintings, tombs, etc. ; Exhibition Catalogue Series; B&W Photographs; 9 x 10; 48+ pages; Softcover has light rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear, bumping, previous owner's name stamped on front end paper and top of text block; faintly written date (? ) right above owner's name.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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