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The Skenfrith Cope and Its Companions
An offprint from the journal 'Textile History' sponsored by the church in which the remarkable C16th cope vestment was identified by a visiting priest in the mid-C19th and where it now resides subsequent to its restoration.
Venezianische Dogenporträts des 16. Jahrhunderts - [Venetian Doges Portraits of the 16th Century]
An academic discourse on the painting and painters of the C16th who undertook commisions to depict the Doges of Venice in the style to which they expected to be remembered. Hardback. 154 pages. Eighty-seven colour and b&w plates. Bibliography. Text in German.
Icons
An introduction to the history, art, technique and evolution of icon painting followed by sixteen tipped-in colour plates of fine examples of Greek, Russian and Byzantine icons. 16 pages plus plates.
Icons from the Collection of Sergei Grigorievich Stroganov - Иконы из коллекции Сергея Григорьевича Строганова
Catalogue to the unique collection of C17th and C18th icons collected by Count Sergei Stroganov during the mid-C19th and now housed in the State Russian Museum. An introductory essay precedes fourteen of the finest examples illustrated in full colour.
Western European Cameos in the Hermitage Collection
A souvenir of the museum's very fine collection of Euroepan miniature carvings on semi-precious stones produced from the C13th onwards , with its apogee in Italy during the C16th, through to its decline in the early C19th. An essay on the art's history precedes 103 colour plates, each
Ikonen: 13 bis 19 Jahrhundert
Large catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at the Haud der Kunst Art Museum in Munich during 1969/70. Introductory essay on the history and technique of historic icon painting followed by a catalogue of 390 exhibits each illustrated in b&w phoographs and occasional colour plat
The Icon: Image of the Invisible - Elements of Theology, Aesthetics and Technique
A comprehensive study of the theology of the icon and its history, the aesthetics of the icon, and the techniques and steps to paint an icon.
Masaccio: Readings and Itineraries
Colour guide to the life and work of Italy's first great painter of the Renaissance who, despite his death at the age of twenty-six in 1428, produced revolutionary lifelike and naturalistic paintings in the churches of Pisa and Florence which had a major influence on his successors.
Hans Memling in the Hospital of St John Bruges
Six outstanding paintings and one painted reliquary by the C15th artist Hans Memling illustrated in full colour and described in terms of their composition, subject matter and symbolism. Paperback. 48 pages. Minor signs of wear, otherwise good clean condition.
The Sidders Collection of Dr Wall Worcester Porcelain
Sale catalogue of a unique collection of Dr Wall period Worcester porcelain of the mid-C18th with 84 items described and most illustrated in bw or colour photographs. Paperback. 40 pages.