About this title: Originally published in 1938 when Kenneth Clark was director of the National Gallery, London, this book presents Clark's favorite details from paintings in the museum's collection. Newly updated and handsomely illustrated, this landmark book juxtaposes pairs of details rarely viewed together--such as cupids from Velazquez's "Rokeby Venus" and Correggio's "The School of Love"--to illuminate fascinating analogies and contrasts between paintings and artists. Clark's erudite but accessible responses to these works are broad in scope and approach, and range from a few lines to an entire history of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: National Gallery London
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781857094268ISBN:1857094263
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781857094268ISBN:1857094263
Description: Originally published in 1938 when Kenneth Clark was director of the National Gallery, London, this book presents Clark's favorite details from paintings in the museum's collection. Newly updated and handsomely illustrated, this landmark book juxtapos... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: The National Gallery, London
Date Published: 1938
Description: Very Good. Folio-12"-15" Tall. 28 pages of introduction and prelims are followed by 100 pages, each with a photograph of a detail from a picture in the National Gallery. Many of the details are from Italian paintings of the 15th and 16th Centuries, showing faces, previously unseen action, drawing techniques, etc. All photographs taken by Gallery staff. Tanned and aged on edges, with foxing on end-papers. Contents Very Good throughout. All in worn and tired green cloth, marked, and bumped at ... read more
Description: 1944. National Gallery. first reprint. good, gilt titles on front cover & spine, spine faded. 13x10. 100 b/w plates. An intriguing collection of 100 details from paintings in the collection of the National Gallery, London. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HARRISON
Date Published: 1938
Description: Published by HARRISON in 1938, 100 pages, hardback (no D/J), very tall size, wear to extremities, internally good, green cloth, black & white plates. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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