Annibale Carracci: A Study in the Reform of Italian Painting around 1590, Two Volumes

Language: English

Published by Phaidon Press, London, 1971

0714814717 / 9780714814711

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Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Vol. I: Text; 183 pp. with color frontis. Vol. 2: Catalogue and Plates; 351 pp. with color frontis, 121 bw figures; 346 bw plates, 10 color plates. Heavy (8 pounds / 3.6 kilos). Volumes one and two of this two-volume set; From the jacket: From the jacket: "In the late sixteenth century Italian art had fallen from the great height it had reached some fifty years earlier and was dominated by a facile, but exhausted and expressively weak Mannerist style. Annibale Carracci.was one of a number of Italian artists around 1590 who, inspired by new ideas about art and the religious temper of the time, were attempting to 'reform' the art of painting. . This book, the first systematic study of Annibale Carracci's life and work, surveys the whole of the artists activity and analyses the origin, development and significance of his achievements, viewing them against the background of the art and thought of the period." A nice set with slightly worn dustjackets and clean interiors.…

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Title
Annibale Carracci: A Study in the Reform of Italian Painting around 1590, Two Volumes
Author
Posner, Donald
Publisher
Phaidon Press, London
Publication year
1971
Condition
VG-
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0714814717
ISBN 13
9780714814711
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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.…

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