The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico; Treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Renaissance in Italy and Spain. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1987. 1st Ed hardcover with dust j...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Renaissance in the North. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1987. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. At roughly the same time that Italian art was beginning to reflect a reawakening of the classical spirit—an epoch and style we call the Renaissance—the arts of Northern Europe were experiencing their own efflorescence. Painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts were pursued with a new vigor in the Netherlands, in Germany, in France, and in England, and resulted in a vast body of work that constitutes one of the glories of Western civilization. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the masters of the North developed styles quite distinct from those in the South: an attention to minute detail, particularly with regard to landscape, but also in domestic interiors; and an emotive piety that dramatized the sorrow and suffering of the Passion. Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment present a horrific vision of the death of Christ and the damnation of sinners, set against a deep and distant landscape, sensitively and realistically rendered. The Lamentation by Petrus Christus...

Master Paintings from the Hermitage and the State Russian Museum. Hardcover book, published in conjunction with the exhibition in 1975-1976. Illustrated, 132 pages.

Art Treasures of the World by Paul Hamlyn. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1968 by Hamlyn Publishing Group of Middlesex, United Kingdom. Pri...