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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. Dustcover has some wear and tear but actual book and pages are great. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> A. P. Opp?'s book has long been recognised as one of the pioneer scholarly works of art history. Sixty years of subse- quent research and criticism have added to our knowledge of Raphael, but they have not fundamentally affected the corpus of finished paintings which Opp? confronted with his habitual scepticism, yearning for beauty and astringent good sense. Opp? came to art history from the classics, and this early philological training gave nerve and sinew, as well as grasp, to all his scholarship. This beautifully written and composed book, enriched for this new edition with new, first class repro- ductions of Raphael's oeuvre in both colour and mono- chrome, discusses the whole range of Raphael's achievement. At a time when an enormous number of illustrated books have been devoted to lesser figures in art history, it is refreshing and exciting to look again at one of the greatest masters of all time through the eyes of one of Britain's most di.…

Etat : Good. in-4, pp. 215, ill. 117 in b/n f.t. e 68 n.t., leg. cart. edit. Book.