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Title: The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XII: European Sculpture and Metalwork.
Description: 2012, (21,6 x 28 cm), 288 pp., 244 colour ills., & 110 duotone ills., hardcover. This volume catalogs the more than two hundred remarkable and varied pieces of European sculpture and metalwork--dating from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century--amassed by Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation. Highlights of the collection's exemplary aquamanilia, bronze sculptures, medals, and plaquettes include a medieval aquamanile, the finest of its type, depicting the theme of foolish love in the fable of Phyllis and Aristotle, as well as a commanding figure of Mars in the guise of a musketeer loading his weapon, dating to the seventeenth century. Each work in this catalog is illustrated, in many cases with new color photography, and elucidated by in-depth scholarly discussion.
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Title: The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XII: European Sculpture and Metalwork.
Description: 2012, (21,6 x 28 cm), 288 pp., 244 colour ills., & 110 duotone ills., hardcover. This volume catalogs the more than two hundred remarkable and varied pieces of European sculpture and metalwork--dating from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century--amassed by Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation. Highlights of the collection's exemplary aquamanilia, bronze sculptures, medals, and plaquettes include a medieval aquamanile, the finest of its type, depicting the theme of foolish love in the fable of Phyllis and Aristotle, as well as a commanding figure of Mars in the guise of a musketeer loading his weapon, dating to the seventeenth century. Each work in this catalog is illustrated, in many cases with new color photography, and elucidated by in-depth scholarly discussion.
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Price: EUR 82.50 = appr. US$ 89.66 Seller: Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.
- Book number: 6566
- Book number: 6566
See more books from our catalog: Beeldhouwkunst / Sculpture