IDEAL LANDSCAPE: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain
by Lagerlof, Margaretha Rossholm
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300047630
- ISBN 13
- 9780300047639
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and highly sophisticated book, Margaretha Lagerlof interprets these paintings in a new way, examining them from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism, and metaphysics." Quarto: 247 p. with 105 plates (many color). Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75193
- Title
- IDEAL LANDSCAPE: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain
- Author
- Lagerlof, Margaretha Rossholm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300047630
- ISBN 13
- 9780300047639
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven and London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Art History, Landscape Painting, Arcadic, Arcadia, Illustrated Books
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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