Two nearly identical van Eyck paintings have presented extremely thorny and complex issues for art history. An ocean separates the paintings, with one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the other in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, Italy, but they share a legacy of questions. Concerns about their origins, attribution, dating, iconography and related geology remain.This book was published on the occasion of their respective restorations. Research from technical and historical perspectives by scholars provide a broader dais ...
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Two nearly identical van Eyck paintings have presented extremely thorny and complex issues for art history. An ocean separates the paintings, with one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the other in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, Italy, but they share a legacy of questions. Concerns about their origins, attribution, dating, iconography and related geology remain.This book was published on the occasion of their respective restorations. Research from technical and historical perspectives by scholars provide a broader dais to view these precious works. A book as intriguing and beautiful as the subject it contains.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 10 x 12 1/2. 112 page hardcover with illustrations. Several essay contributors about the attribition of two identical paintings. Dust jacket is bright, complete and clean. Full brown cloth exterior with title on spine in gold. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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VG/VG (light wear to cloth boards. corners lightly rubbed. dustjacket scuffed & scrached; light rubbing to corners; curling to edges) Brown cloth with color-illustrated dustjacket. 112 pp., profusely illustrated, including one folding plate. From dustjacket: Why Jan Van Eyck, the preeminent artist of the Early Netherlandish School, would have painted two nearly identical versions of St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, one now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one four times larger in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, is examined in this volume. Both paintings have been recently conserved, and new scientific evidence published here, such as that revealed by examination with infrared reflectography and dendrochronological analyses, provides a broader platform from which to study these two precious objects. The authors include scholars internationally known for their research in Early Netherlandish painting.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997. Folio. Brown cloth boards stamped in gold with brown endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 112 pages. ISBN: 0876331150. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Like New. Size: 12x9x0; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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New in new dust jacket. Hardcover, 12 x 9; new, in publisher's shrink wrap, never taken out of shrink wrap inside dust jacket but 2" missing chip in shrink wrap. With several essays on attribution of paintings. Shipped in bubble wrap with tracking. four shelf 3-A
