Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art

New York: Excalibur Books; Simon & Schuster, 1981. Cloth, 444 pages, illustrations (some colour) maps, portraits (some colour), plans; 30 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front free endpaper (blank) clipped/top right corner. Expected browning. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: The end of the Middle Ages and the growth of realism; Art forms and society, by Rene Huyghe; The revival of realism in Medieval Italy, by Enzo Carli; Historical summary, by Lydie Huyghe and Adeline Hulftegger; International Gothic style, by Charles Sterling; Middle class realism in the 15th century; Flemish realism and its expansion, by Charles Sterling; Later 15th century in Germany and the Iberian Peninsula, by Adeline Hulftegger; Historical summary, by Adeline Hulftegger, Jean Charles Moreux and Evelyn King; 2. The Italian Renaissance and the ideal of beauty; Art forms and society, by Rene Huyghe; The Quattrocento, by Eugenio Battisti; Historical summary, by Adeline Hulftegger, Jean Charles Moreux and Evelyn King; The Italian cinquecento and idealism, by Giulio Carlo Argan; The Cinquecento in Venice, by Rodolfo Palluchini; Beginnings of the Renaissance outside of Italy; France, Flanders and England, by Pierre Pradel; Germany between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by Adeline Hulftegger; Historical summary, by Adeline Hulftegger, Jean Charles Moreux and Evelyn King; 3. The later Renaissance; Art forms and society, by Rene Huyghe; Mannerism in the 16th century; The first Italian mannerism and the new conception of reality, by Rodolfo Palluchini; Mannerism in Northern Europe and the school of Fontainebleau, by Jean Babelon; The development of Italian mannerism after 1550, by Lionello Venturi; Realism and the first classical and Baroque trends; Realism and classicism in Italy, by Lionello Venturi; The golden age of Spain, Portugal and the Americas, by Jose Camo n Aznar; Catholic and Baroque Flanders, by Paul Fierens; Realism in the Protestant and bourgeois countries, by Marcel Brion; French classicism and its prolongation, by Jacques Combe; Historical summary, by Sylvie Beguin, Liliane Brion-Guerry, Lydie Huyghe, Gise`le Polaillon-Kerven, Evelyn King, and Emily Evershed; 4. Baroque Art; Art forms and society, by Rene Huyghe; From the Roman Baroque to the German rococo, by Jacques Vanuxem; The Iberian Baroque and the new world, by Germain Bazin; The quest for individuality, by Marcel Brion; Historical summary, by Liliane Brion-Guerry, Lydie, Huygie, Gisele Polaillon-Kerven, Evelyn King, and Emily Evershed.. 2nd. Hardcover. Good/Good. Folio.