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The Treasury of Basel Cathedral

The Treasury of Basel Cathedral

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The Treasury of Basel Cathedral

by Husband, Timothy; Julien Chapuis (with contributions by)

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0300088493
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9780300088496
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2001. 182 pages; 150 illustrations, including 105 color. The fascinating story of 14th-century Basel; its cathedral; the gold, silver, bejewelled, enameled treasury of altar furnishings and liturgical hardware; earthquake; iconoclastic threat of the Reformation; then dispersal from a nineteenth-century auction. Now, some of the 75 examples in the catalogue are now in the Historisches Museum Basel, others are in various European collections; most have never before been seen in the United States. Gorgeous goldsmiths' work. Clean throughout; as new.. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

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Title
The Treasury of Basel Cathedral
Author
Husband, Timothy; Julien Chapuis (with contributions by)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
ISBN 10
0300088493
ISBN 13
9780300088496
Publisher
The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press
Place of Publication
Middle Village, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published
2001
Keywords
religious art artifacts gold silver metropolitan museum bulletin
Bookseller catalogs
Decorative Arts; Craft; Religion in Art, Religion;
Size
4to

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