Author: ALLEN, GRANT
Title: EVOLUTION IN ITALIAN ART.
Description: London, Grant Richards, 1908. 1st edition. Dark blue cloth/ lettered gilt, 22cmx16,5cm, Rather good copy. Exlibris G. H. Visser. 'Evolution in Italian Art' was practically complete at the time of the author's death, but its chapters have been revised and brought up to date in the light of recent knowledge and research, by J. W. Cruickshank'. Photogravure portrait frontispiece printed in sepia on Japanese vellum: Bellini: Madonna and Child. 65 reproductions from photographs. That collection of plates show the development through the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Contents: Introduction. a). Exterior influences affecting Italian art. b). Design and composition. c). The effect of increasing knowledge on painting. d). The influence of social conditions. I). The marriage of the Virgin. II). The Visitation. III). The Annunciation. IV). The Madonna and Child. V). The Madonna and Saints. VI). The adoration of the Magi. VII). The presentation. VIII). The Pietà. IX). That great painter, Ignoto. X). Our Lady of Ferrara. XI). The painters' Jordan. With conclusion and index. 371 + (1) pag.

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