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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 3rd. viii, 168 pages, [72] leaves of plates, illustrations; 19 cm. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance, I. Tight, clean copy. Browning. With 186 illustrations. Size: 12mo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Edges foxed, wrinkle to jacket. 1984 Hard Cover. 270 pp. Discusses the lives and work of eleven poets, critics, philanthropists, psychologists, art historians, and scholars.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance ; 4. Physical description: 191 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 26cm. Subjects: Renaissance -- Art -- Italy. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 191 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Notes; Originally published as vol. 4 of the series: Studies in the art of the Renaissance. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Artists Italy. Art, Renaissance Italy. 3 Kg.

5th edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents inmclude:- An autobiographical sketch -- The embattled humanities: the universities in crisis -- Relativism in the humanities: the deabate about human nature -- Relativism in the history of ideas -- Relativism in the appreciation of art -- Approaches to the history of art: three points for discussion -- The conservation of our cities: Ruskin's message for today -- Watching artists at work: commitment and improvisation in the history of drawing -- Plato in modern dress: two eyewitness accounts of the origins of Cubism -- Kokoschka in his time -- Image and word in Twentieth-Century art -- The wit of Saul Steinberg -- A master of poster design: Abram Games -- The photographer as artist: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Subjects; Cartier-Bresson, Henri 1908-2004. Games, Abram 1914-1996. 1900-1999. Art, Modern 20th century. Learning and scholarship History 20th century. Cultural relativism. Art Philosophy. Art, Modern 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. Modernism (Art) 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance ; 4. Physical description: 191 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 26cm. Subjects: Renaissance -- Art -- Italy. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Visual discovery through art -- Moment and movement in art -- Ritualized gesture and expression in art -- Action and expression in Western art -- The mask and the face : the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art -- The visual image : its place in communication -- 'The sky is the limit' : the vault of heaven and pictorial vision -- Mirror and map : theories of pictorial representation -- Experiment and experience in the arts -- Standards of truth : the arrested image and the moving eye -- Image and code : scope and limits of conventionalism in pictorial representation. Subjects; Picture perception Psychological aspects. Visual perception Psychological aspects. Visual perception. Art Psychology. Visual representation. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Reprints of articles originally published 1949-1985. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: The art of the Greeks; Chinese landscape painting; Tribal Styles; A medieval motif; Expressions of despair; The impact of the Black Death; New revelations on fresco painting; Kenneth Clark's 'Piero della Francesca'; The repentance of Judas; Seeking a key to Leonardo; Michelangelo's last paintings; The rhetoric of attribution: a cautionary tale; The worship of ancient sculpture; Patrons and painters in Baroque Italy; Dutch genre painting; Mapping and painting in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century; The mastery of Rubens; On Rembrandt; Adam's house in Paradise; Painted anecdotes; The whirligig of taste; The anatomy of art collecting; The claims of excellence; The meaning of beauty; Should a museum be active?; The beauty of old towns; Dilemmas of modern art criticism; A theory of modern art; Malraux on art and myth; Freud's aesthetics. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 191 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Notes; Originally published as vol. 4 of the series: Studies in the art of the Renaissance. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Artists Italy. Art, Renaissance Italy. 1 Kg.

Second Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 1. Physical description; viii, 308 pages to 140 pages of plates : ill ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art, Renaissance Italy. Composition. Renaissance period. European visual arts. History. Bibliography. 1 Kg.

Second Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series; Bollingen series, 35. The A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 5. Physical description; xxxi, 466 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art Psychology. Bollingen series. Fine arts lectures. 3 Kg.

5th edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents inmclude:- An autobiographical sketch -- The embattled humanities: the universities in crisis -- Relativism in the humanities: the deabate about human nature -- Relativism in the history of ideas -- Relativism in the appreciation of art -- Approaches to the history of art: three points for discussion -- The conservation of our cities: Ruskin's message for today -- Watching artists at work: commitment and improvisation in the history of drawing -- Plato in modern dress: two eyewitness accounts of the origins of Cubism -- Kokoschka in his time -- Image and word in Twentieth-Century art -- The wit of Saul Steinberg -- A master of poster design: Abram Games -- The photographer as artist: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Subjects; Cartier-Bresson, Henri 1908-2004. Games, Abram 1914-1996. 1900-1999. Art, Modern 20th century. Learning and scholarship History 20th century. Cultural relativism. Art Philosophy. Art, Modern 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. Modernism (Art) 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 247 p., [96] p. of plates : ill., facsims., 1 map ; 25 cm. Series: Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 2. 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: Geschichte 1400-1600. Symbolism in art. Art, Italian History. Art, Renaissance. Christian art and symbolism. Iconology - Renaissance Art. Humanism - Renaissance Art. Art (1400-1500). 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Visual discovery through art -- Moment and movement in art -- Ritualized gesture and expression in art -- Action and expression in Western art -- The mask and the face : the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art -- The visual image : its place in communication -- 'The sky is the limit' : the vault of heaven and pictorial vision -- Mirror and map : theories of pictorial representation -- Experiment and experience in the arts -- Standards of truth : the arrested image and the moving eye -- Image and code : scope and limits of conventionalism in pictorial representation. Subjects; Picture perception Psychological aspects. Visual perception Psychological aspects. Visual perception. Art Psychology. Visual representation. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 64 pages: ill. (some col.); 25 cm. Subjects: National Gallery (London) (Perm.)Shades and shadows in art; Exhibitions. Visual perception; Exhibitions. 3 Kg.

Second Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 1. Physical description; viii, 308 pages to 140 pages of plates : ill ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art, Renaissance Italy. Composition. Renaissance period. European visual arts. History. Bibliography. 1 Kg.

Second Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series; Bollingen series, 35. The A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 5. Physical description; xxxi, 466 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art Psychology. Bollingen series. Fine arts lectures. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 247 p., [96] p. of plates : ill., facsims., 1 map ; 25 cm. Series: Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 2. 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: Geschichte 1400-1600. Symbolism in art. Art, Italian History. Art, Renaissance. Christian art and symbolism. Iconology - Renaissance Art. Humanism - Renaissance Art. Art (1400-1500). 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. xxxi, 466 pages : Illustrations. Series: Mellon lectures in the fine arts 1956; Bollingen Series xxxv:5 This is a satisfactory though not a stellar copy of a classic book, in a dust jacket that is worn and torn. The publisher's cloth-covered boards are fresh, the corners lightly worn, the spine mildly sloped; the contents are unmarked. The dust jacket is worn, with chipping at the front flapfold and at the head and foot of the spine, and with rubbing to hinges and folds. 1800 grams.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: viii, 308 pages: ill. Subjects: Art, Renaissance History. Art, Italian History. Art, Italian 15th century. Art, Italian 16th century. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 64 pages: ill. (some col.); 25 cm. Subjects: National Gallery (London) (Perm.)Shades and shadows in art; Exhibitions. Visual perception; Exhibitions. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Originally published in volume form 1982. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Visual discovery through art -- Moment and movement in art -- Ritualized gesture and expression in art -- Action and expression in Western art -- The mask and the face : the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art -- The visual image : its place in communication -- 'The sky is the limit' : the vault of heaven and pictorial vision -- Mirror and map : theories of pictorial representation -- Experiment and experience in the arts -- Standards of truth : the arrested image and the moving eye -- Image and code : scope and limits of conventionalism in pictorial representation. Subjects: Picture perception Psychological aspects; Visual perception Psychological aspects; Art Psychology; Aesthetics; Art theory; Psychology - artistic representation. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, 223 pp; 158 illus. Original cloth, large 8vo. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Wrightsman lectures ; volume 9. Physical description; xii, 411 p., p. of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 27 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. -323) and index. Subjects; Decoration and ornament. Themes, motives. Visual form perception. Art. Philosophy. Psychology. Nonfiction. Art theory. Aesthetics. 3 Kg.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: viii, 308 pages: ill. Subjects: Art, Renaissance History. Art, Italian History. Art, Italian 15th century. Art, Italian 16th century. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Originally published in volume form 1982. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Visual discovery through art -- Moment and movement in art -- Ritualized gesture and expression in art -- Action and expression in Western art -- The mask and the face : the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art -- The visual image : its place in communication -- 'The sky is the limit' : the vault of heaven and pictorial vision -- Mirror and map : theories of pictorial representation -- Experiment and experience in the arts -- Standards of truth : the arrested image and the moving eye -- Image and code : scope and limits of conventionalism in pictorial representation. Subjects: Picture perception Psychological aspects; Visual perception Psychological aspects; Art Psychology; Aesthetics; Art theory; Psychology - artistic representation. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 167 pp., plates (186 illustrations), 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Preface -- The Renaissance conception of artistic progress and its consequences -- Apollonio di Giovanni: a Florentine cassone workshop seen through the eyes of a humanist poet -- Renaissance and golden age -- The early Medici as patrons of art -- Leonardo's method for working out compositions -- Raphael's Madonna della Sedia -- Norm and form: the stylistic categories of art history and their origins in Renaissance ideals -- Mannerism: the historiographic background -- The Renaissance theory of art and the rise of landscape -- The style all'antica: imitation and assimilation -- Reynolds's theory and practice of imitation. Subjects; Geschichte 1500-1600. Art, Renaissance Italy. Composition (Art). 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Wrightsman lectures ; volume 9. Physical description; xii, 411 p., p. of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 27 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. -323) and index. Subjects; Decoration and ornament. Themes, motives. Visual form perception. Art. Philosophy. Psychology. Nonfiction. Art theory. Aesthetics. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 167 pp., plates (186 illustrations), 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Preface -- The Renaissance conception of artistic progress and its consequences -- Apollonio di Giovanni: a Florentine cassone workshop seen through the eyes of a humanist poet -- Renaissance and golden age -- The early Medici as patrons of art -- Leonardo's method for working out compositions -- Raphael's Madonna della Sedia -- Norm and form: the stylistic categories of art history and their origins in Renaissance ideals -- Mannerism: the historiographic background -- The Renaissance theory of art and the rise of landscape -- The style all'antica: imitation and assimilation -- Reynolds's theory and practice of imitation. Subjects; Geschichte 1500-1600. Art, Renaissance Italy. Composition (Art). 1 Kg.

New ed. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, with a worn plastic cover. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Contents: The limits of likeness -- Function and form -- The beholder's share -- Invention and discovery. Subjects: Art Psychology. Art History. 3 Kg.