The Roman author Pliny tells the story--well known in the Renaissance--of famed Grecian painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear comments of viewers. Martin Kemp provides an introductory text on Italian Renaissance art that brings the period alive through a wealth of visual and written evidence and extensive quotations from original sources. 20 color and 100 b&w illustrations.
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The Roman author Pliny tells the story--well known in the Renaissance--of famed Grecian painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear comments of viewers. Martin Kemp provides an introductory text on Italian Renaissance art that brings the period alive through a wealth of visual and written evidence and extensive quotations from original sources. 20 color and 100 b&w illustrations.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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A hardback volume in Very Good condition, in a similar dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
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Near Fine in Near fine jacket. First edition, 1997, hardcover with blue paper boards in dust jacket, octavo, 314pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild shelfwear.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 1997, First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in color and b&w. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Clean contents. Tight binding.
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VG. Blue cloth with light blue color illustrated dustj acket. x, 314 pp., 20 color, 101 bw plates. "The Roman author Pliny tells the story--well known in the Renaissance--of famed Grecian painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear comments of viewers. Martin Kemp takes this motif as an effective point of entry into the problem of what lies behind e business of picture-making in the Renaissance, in particular the role of the artist and the function of works of art in relation to this various kinds of audience....[He also] provides an introductory text on Italian Renaissance art that brings the period alive through extensive quotations from original sources." (dj).
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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine Plus jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., only the slightest signs of handling. no flaws or markings, no tears, bumps or writing. strong binding, clean copy.; x-314pp., 121 illustrations in color, b/w. detailed re-evaluation of sources and the evolution of the currently accepted theories.