Description: Poeschke, Joachim. New York. Abbeville Press. 2005. English, First Edition, Fine, HC, Fo, 11" X 13", 456 pp. ISBN: 9780789208637 Fine Folio, blue cloth over board, stamped silver gilt lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers featuring Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s fresco The Effects of Good Government in the City. Binding tight, sharp tips, and no markings throughout. Fine blue dust jacket featuring detail of Pietro Lorenzetti’s The Crucifixion to front cover, detail of Giotto’s The Exorcism of Demons at Arezzo to back cover. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 456 pp. replete with full-color images of twenty-two outstanding fresco cycles created during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries on walls and ceilings of palaces and churches spanning Italy from the Veneto to Rome, including frontispiece illustration of Giotto’s The Last Judgement. Includes photography by Antonio Quattrone and Ghigo Roli, descriptive and interpretive essays on all aspects of fresco painting, covering the artists and their patrons in the context of their cultural and political history. This beautifully illustrated collection provides a concise and authoritative celebration of Italian frescoes and features incredible photographs of illustrious sites like the Sancta Sanctorum in Rome.
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Language: English
Book Title: Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto 1280-1400
Author: Joachim Poeschke
