Idea and image : studies in the Italian Renaissance / Rudolf Wittkower
1978, 1st edition. [London] : Thames and Hudson. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #477118
ISBN: 0500850054
Physical description: 255 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm. Contents: Michelangelo's Biblioteca Laurenziana.--Michelangelo's dome of St Peter's.--The 'Menicantonio' sketchbook in the Paul Mellon Collection.--The changing concpet of proportion.--Brunelleschi and 'proportion in perspective'.--Desiderio da Settignano's 'St Jerome in the desert'.--The young Raphael.--Giorgione and Arcady.--'Sacri Monti' in the Itlian Alps.--The painters of Verona, 1480-1530. Subjects: Art, Italian. Art, Renaissance.
Price: €45.00