Spanish Art – An Introductory Review of Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Ceramics, Woodwork, Metalwork.
London, B.T. Batsford, Ltd. for The Burlington Magazine, 1927. 25 cm x 31 cm. Frontispiece, 121 pages. 121 plates. Map of Spain towards rear. Hardcover [publisher’s original black cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt embossment to front board. Good+ condition. Rubbing to boards evident. Damp staining to bottom corner of rear board. Minor tear to cloth at head of spine. Cracks to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Binding still firm and strong. Bookblock square and tight. Interior bright and clean. [Burlington Magazine Monograph – II]
Includes, for example, the following: Introduction, by R.R. Talock / Architecture, by Royall Tyler / Painting – I. Spanish Painting and the Spanish Temper, by Sir Charles Holmes; II. A Chronology of Spanish Painting, by H. Isherwood Kay / Sculpture, by Geoffrey Webb / Textiles, by A.F. Kendrick / Ceramics and Glass – I. Hispano-Moresque Pottery, by A. Van de Put; II. Renaissance and Modern Pottery, by Bernard Rackman; III. Glass, by Bernard Rackham / Woodwork, by Bernard Bevan / Metalwork by Pedro M. de Artiñano / Bibliography etc.
″The object of the book is, then, to encourage a closer and more intimate study of Spanish art, both on the part of those who know the country at first hand, and on that of students who have not yet done so.”
Beautiful images of Spanish architecture such as the catherdrals at Toldeo, Tarragona, Salamanca and Burgos etc.
Book also contains monochrome images of paintings from the early 14th century through to works by Valazquez and Goya.
Numerous images of sculpture, textiles, ceramics and glass, woodwork and metalwork from the 14th century onwards also.
EUR 95,--
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