Venetian colour : marble, mosaic, painting and glass, 1250-1550
by Hills, Paul
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0300081359
- ISBN 13
- 9780300081350
- Seller
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Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Contents: 1. Living on a Lagoon -- 2. San Marco: Marbles and Mosaics -- 3. Polychromy in Early Fifteenth-Century Architecture and Sculpture -- 4. Humanist Priorities: Ornament and Representation -- 5. Transparency, Lucidezza and the Colours of Glass -- 6. Pigments and Colour Preferences in the Time of Giovanni Bellini -- 7. Giovanni Bellini's Light and the Rise of the Picture -- 8. Silks, Dyes and the Discrimination of Colours, 1470-1530 -- 9. The Triumph of Tone of Macchia. x, 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm. First edition, first printing. Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Closed tear to top part of rear flap, some damp cockling to back cover of jacket and very slight waviness to text block, label on front free endpaper covering gift inscription beneath, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015448
- Title
- Venetian colour : marble, mosaic, painting and glass, 1250-1550
- Author
- Hills, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300081359
- ISBN 13
- 9780300081350
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1999
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