Symbolic images
1972, First Edition. London : Phaidon Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-dulled and sun-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Endpapers faintly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall, with the interior tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance: from the library of Sir Lawrence Gowing. Item #466766
ISBN: 0714814954
Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 2. Physical description; viii, 247 pages, [96] pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 map ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: page 236. Contents; Aims and limits of iconology -- Tobias and the angel -- Botticelli's mythologies : a study in the neo-Platonic symbolism of his circle -- An interpretation of Mantegna's Parnassus -- Raphael's Stanza della segnatura and the nature of its symbolism -- Hypnerotomachiana -- The Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo del Te -- The subject of Poussin's Orion -- Icones symbolicae : philosophies of symbolism and their bearing on art. Subjects; Symbolism in art. Art, Italian. Art, Renaissance. 20th century. Illustrated.
Price: €35.00