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The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative
by Ekserdjian, David
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300253648
- ISBN 13
- 9780300253641
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large quarto hardcover, lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's black pictorial dust-jacket. 496 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Lavishly illustrated with 250 reproductions from paintings, chiefly in color. First edition, first printing with full number line. "...the first comprehensive study of the genre to examine it content and subject matter in real detil, from the origins of the alterpiece in the thirteenth century to the time of Caravaggio in the early 1600's." No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible..
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020662
- Title
- The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative
- Author
- Ekserdjian, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300253648
- ISBN 13
- 9780300253641
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2021
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Keywords
- Art, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Art;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Number Line
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- Folio
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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