Description

Hardcover, large folio volume bound in black boards lettered in gold, in publisher’s boldly colored pictorial dust-jacket, not price clipped. 320 pages. Index. Illustrated with approximately 300 color plates of devotional images, portraits, landscapes, allegorical paintings, genre scenes, still-life arrangements, and abstract compositions. First edition. A magisterial presentation of the art produced on the Italian peninsula, from the murals of ancient Rome to Modernism and beyond. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A near pristine copy, clean, square and unmarked. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A very large book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage.