Venetian colour : marble, mosaic, painting and glass, 1250-1550
by Hills, Paul
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0300081359
- ISBN 13
- 9780300081350
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About This Item
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-241) and index. Contents: 1. Living on a Lagoon -- 2. San Marco: Marbles and Mosaics -- 3. Polychromy in Early Fifteenth-Century Architecture and Sculpture -- 4. Humanist Priorities: Ornament and Representation -- 5. Transparency, Lucidezza and the Colours of Glass -- 6. Pigments and Colour Preferences in the Time of Giovanni Bellini -- 7. Giovanni Bellini's Light and the Rise of the Picture -- 8. Silks, Dyes and the Discrimination of Colours, 1470-1530 -- 9. The Triumph of Tone of Macchia. Subjects: Bellini, Giovanni 1426?-1516; Colonna, Francesco -1527; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; C d'Oro (Venice, Italy); Palazzo Ducale (Venise, Italie); Art, Gothic Italy Venice; Art, Renaissance Italy Venice; Color in art; Art, Medieval Italy Venice; Art Italy Venice 16th century.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 401177
- Title
- Venetian colour : marble, mosaic, painting and glass, 1250-1550
- Author
- Hills, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300081359
- ISBN 13
- 9780300081350
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1999
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