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The Middle Ages, Treasures From The Cloisters And The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
by Ostoia, Vera K
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, 1969; First Edition; large octavo (8 1/4" x 10 1/2"); 265 pages; illustrated. Scholarly study of the art of the Middle Ages, spanning twelve-centuries and reflecting the interplay of Classical, Christian, Barbarian, and Indigenous elements. Published as a companion to the 1969 traveling exhibition at L.A.C.M.A. and the Art Institute Of Chicago, the first time a major loan exhibition entirely composed of objects coming from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art was ever mounted. Scholarly text by Vera K. Ostoia, medieval authority at M.O.M.A. Foreword by Thomas P.F. Hoving, Director of the Metropolitan. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. Near Fine, previous owner tiny printed surname in neat hand in the blank margin at the uppermost extremity of the title page. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square.
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- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6102
- Title
- The Middle Ages, Treasures From The Cloisters And The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
- Author
- Ostoia, Vera K
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Los Angeles County Museum Of Art
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles,
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Middle Ages, Art, Religious Art, Religion
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and Architecture;
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- Octavo
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