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VG/VG (rubbed shelf-wear to lower board edges w/ small indentation. spine ends crinkled. dustjacket has area of wear & score to front edge) Blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering and tooling on spine. book xv, 287 pages; profusely illustrated throughout in bw. top edge dark blue. red dustjacket w/ bw illustration, white printing; mylar jacket. Chapters include: The Gagini and Antonio Ferraro--The birth of the baroque city and the seventeenth century--Giacomo Serpotta--Serpotta's followers and the eighteenth century. "Based on years of study in the churches, oratories, libraries, and state and private archives, this is the only book in English dealing with Giacomo Serpotta. it is as well the only book in any language which traces the history of the Palermitan school of stuccatori and the architects associated with them. The text is further expanded by Mrs. G. d'Urso's sensitive photography. Many of the churces and palaces photographed and the designs of Giacomo Amato and his circle reproduced have never before appeared in print. The wealth of archival and photographic documentation in which the book abounds offers scholars and the general public a unique opportunity to explore an unknonw and felicitous area of Italian art."--Publisher.
