London: Phaidon, 1957. Advance blads. Soft cover. These are not the books, but publicity materials for volumes 1 and 2 of Venetian School. Each: many ills. on 32 pages + tipped-in color frontispieces., bound up from the printed sheets. Vol. 1 includes Berenson's prefaces to the 1957 and 1932 editions;..... More
Rome: Capitolium (Revista di Roma), 1968. First edition. Soft cover. Special issue of the journal Capitolium. Over 250p (some numbered separately), hundreds of photos + ca. 10 folding maps and plans in flat colors. Covers worn, outer pages dogeared, but text block is secure and sturdy. The maps are generally..... More
Milan: Ceschina, 1965. Lega, Silvestro. First edition. Soft cover. 182p, 71 ills. + 8 color plates. Owner's blind-stamp on title page. In Italian. The first modern book-length study of this leading Macchiaoli painter of figures and landscapes. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
![Item #30116 Fra Filippo Lippi [1406-1469] [presentation copy]. F. Gray Griswold](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973510)
New York: Duttons, 1934. First edition. Hardcover (imitation vellum). 35p + 1 plate. No limitation notice, but many of Griswold's books were published in editions of a few hundred. A partly imagined biography, based on Vasari. Signed in ink on title page, also an ink presentation "Gay from Frank." Can..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 160p, 116 ills., including 32 large color plates. Described as the first book in English "to focus on the changing perception of light in early Italian painting" (ca. 1250-1430). Examines contemporary attitudes to light, the fresco and panel painting techniques that..... More
Paris: Musee Jacquemart-Andre; printed by Busson, 1963. First edition. Paperbound. 56p + many pls., several in color. In French. Erratum slip laid in. Large exhibition of this fashionable Paris-based Italian painter (checklist of 270 items). Texts by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer and others. Dashing society portraits, landscapes in the Macchiaioli tradition, Venice..... More
![Item #30853 Desiderio da Settignano: St. Cecilia [signed]. Clarence Kennedy, Toldeo Museum of...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30853.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648467842)
Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, n.d. [ca. 1938-39]. Kennedy, Clarence. First edition. Unbound sheets. Gelatin silver photograph printed on semi-glossy paper and mounted on light card stock, laid within 4-page letterpress folder. No date, but ca. 1938-39, as the portfolio was probably issued in commemoration of the work's acquisition in..... More
Florence: Leo S. Olschki, March 1948. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, 1 cover ill. "Piccolo Catalogo 3." Dozens of primary and secondary works, both antiquarian and more recent. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Caligari: Paolo Pisano, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 174p, many photos and line ills., several in color. Monograph on the pre-Christian grotto-crypt of the church of Santa Restituta in Caligari, Sardinia, and its excavation. Chapters on its history, some reproductions and transcriptions of documents relating to the later church, inscriptions found..... More
Baarn, Netherlands: Menno Hertzberger, n.d. [ca. 1952-53]. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, several line ills. 98 items, some described in detail. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Florence: Albizzi, 1822. 6th edition. Soft cover. 220p + 3 line pls. In original printed covers. Lacks backstrip: gatherings and cords exposed. Scattered foxing throughout. Partly dampstained, sometimes heavily, but not obscuring content. Gatherings are separating but cords are sturdy. This guidebook to the Uffizi opens with a brief history..... More
Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 320p, many ills., many in color. . A seminal publication on international neo-expressionist painting of the 1970s-80s, which embraced forms of earlier art (figuration, texture, emotion, etc.) in reaction to conceptual abstraction. Oliva dubbed the Italian version "La Transavanguardia." Contains "Transitional Art" by..... More
London: Phaidon, 1952. Fra Angelico. First edition. Hardcover. 214p, 65 text ills., 133 full-page plates, 7 tipped-in color plates. Tipped-on jacket plate is creased, torn, and scraped, as shown. "Complete edition," with a catalogue raisonne of known and ascribed works. Addendum slip tipped in at p. 203. A beautiful copy..... More
Venice: Luigi Pavino, 1712. Second edition. Hardcover. [20], 417, [34]p, 2 decorative woodcut initials. Printed in italics and Roman. Although ex-college library (bookplate, perforated stamp on title page), a very good sturdy copy in old vellum (old stain, soil). Early ink notes on front endpaper. First published in 1710. A...... More
