Author: John Pope-Hennessy
Title: Italian Gothic Sculpture & Italian Renaissance Sculpture
Description: London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1955-1958. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes on Italian sculpture, with illustrations throughout. Two volumes. First edition. Two detailed studies into Italian sculpture, dealing with sculpture in different periods from Pisano and Ghiberti to Donatello and Lombardo. These works are designed as an introduction to the subject, in a stylistic survey of the artform. With detailed contextual commentaries and reference to many important figures and artists, as well as the changing materials used in sculpture. This set contains: Italian Gothic Sculpture, 1955. Illustrated with one hundred figures on plates. Collated complete. Italian Renaissance Sculpture, 1958. Illustrated with one hundred and forty-four figures on plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. Written by Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, a British art historian and scholar of Italian Renaissance art who was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1967 and 1973, and director of the British Museum between 1974 and 1976. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers with spotting to the endpapers of volume two and a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of volume one. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

Keywords: Italian Gothic Renaissance Sculpture Gothic Various


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