Ivories - Couverture rigide

Maskell, Alfred

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804802696 ISBN 13 : 9780804802697

Editeur : Tuttle Publishing, 1966

Synopsis

Book by Maskell Alfred

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Art LiL rarg -, L- A PREFACE IVORY sculpture has long formed an interesting subject in literature, and the examples to be found in the great national and private collections throughout the world, though not numerous, have, it may be said, a special importance not inferior to those of any other department of the worlds art. The estimation in which they are held arises from various causes. First from their comparative rarity, next because practically all examples of importance and their whereabouts are known, and lastly from their intrinsic beauty, and from the fact that they not only constitute an epitome, as it were, of the worlds art from the earliest times down to at least the period of the renaissance, but because they form almost the sole links in the chain of examples of artistic development during the many centuries when, in other directions, this makes almost total default. The literature concerning carvings in ivory, especially the dissertations upon such an important section as the consular diptychs, is voluminous, and includes the names of the most distinguished archaeologists and critics, going back almost to the sixteenth century, in days when the study of the fine arts received less attention than it does now. But, generally speaking, it deals with special divisions, and we have no connected accounts of the progress of ivory carving throughout the worlds
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tuttle Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1966
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804802696
• ISBN 13: 9780804802697
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 551
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible