Surveys, exhibitions: Rococo, Neoclassicism, RomanticismThere are 14 items
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Exhibition of Rococo art from Bavaria (catalogue of a loan exhibition, November 1954)
London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1954(25 cm), 32 pp. 179 catalogue entries. Publisher’s buff paper wrappers; title printed in red. - Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Sections on paintings and drawings; good biographical notices. ¶ Lacking separate atlas of plates, entitled Rococo art from Bavaria: illustrations from the exhibition held at the Victoria & Albert Museum (4 pp., [6] leaves of plates). -
Three decades of British art, 1740-1770 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society; volume 63)
Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1965(25 cm), xii, 77 (1) pp., 20 illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - The author argues that a sea-change in English painting during this period – “a movement away from the honest style of Hogarth towards an arrogant and artificial style” – reflects “what was happening on the larger historical stage of the time, and echo[s] a state of mind prevalent in England, which helped to trigger the American Revolution”. The Jayne Lectures, delivered in 1964 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: “The bourgeois sentimental decade: 1740-1750”, “Light from Italy: 1750-1760”, and “The grand style: 1760-1770s”. ¶ Trivial stain on dust jacket; otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. -
Gods & Heroes : Baroque images of antiquity. A Loan exhibition from North American collections for the benefit of the archaeological exploration of Sardis (held at the Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 30 October 1968-4 January 1969)
Cambridge, MA, Harvard College, 1968(27 cm), 24, [54] pp., 53 p. of black & white illustrations, 4 colour plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - An well-annotated catalogue of 69 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, not all “Baroque” (works by Fragonard, Greuze, and Robert - all of whom died in the 19th century - are included). Included are a drawing by Pietro da Cortona for Ferrari’s De florum cultura (1633), copies of Goltzius’s De re numaria (1708) and the Aedes Barberinae ad Quirinali (Rome 1642). Printed at the Stinehour Press and The Meriden Gravure Company. ¶ Several pencil annotations. Good copy. -
The iconography of the Enlightenment in English art
Sydney, Sydney University Press for the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1970(24 cm), 21 (3) pp., [4] p. of plates (figs.1-14). Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “The annual lecture delivered to the Australian Humanities Research Council at its Fourteenth Annual General Meeting in Canberra on 10 September 1969.” ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Art and the industrial revolution
New York, Schocken Books, 1970(23 cm), xvii, 222 pp., 125 illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - Reprint of the 1968 edition, revised by Arthur Elton, in which “many of Klingender’s hard-line Marxist arguments” were softened “to make the book more palatable for newer audiences” (Dictionary of Art Historians). ¶ Ownership inscription on half-title; a good, unmarked copy. -
The Age of Neoclassicism (catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Council of Europe and held at the Royal Academy and Victoria and Albert Museum, 9 September-19 November 1972; Fourteenth exhibition of the Council of Europe)
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1972(22 cm), civ, 1037 (1) pp., 16 colour plates (pls.I-XVI), 160 p. of black & white plates (pls.1-160). 1869 catalogue entries (+ Addenda). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Occasional annotation. Binding rubbed. -
The Age of Neoclassicism (catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Council of Europe and held at the Royal Academy and Victoria and Albert Museum, 9 September-19 November 1972; Fourteenth exhibition of the Council of Europe)
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1972(22 cm), civ, 1037 (1) pp., 16 colour plates (pls.I-XVI), 160 p. of black & white plates (pls.1-160). 1869 catalogue entries (+ Addenda). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Fine copy. -
The Gothic revival; an essay in the history of taste
London, Murray, 1973(21.5 cm), xii, 236 pp., [8] leaves of plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Spine of dust jacket sunned; otherwise as new. -
The Twilight of the Medici : late Baroque art in Florence, 1670-1743 (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 27 March-2 June 1974; and Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 28 June-30 September 1974; Centro Di catalogue, 43)
Florence, Centro Di, 1974(22.5 cm), 507 (1) pp., numerous illustrations (some in colour). 295 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Essays by Harold Acton (A note on the last Medici) and Klaus Lankheit (Florence under the late Medici). Included were engraved architectural prints and views, festival books and prints (the latter described by Barbara Grohs, pp.477-491). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Kurfürst Max Emanuel : Bayern und Europa um 1700 (catalogue of an exhibition held in Schloss Lustheim, Oberschleissheim, 2 July-3 October 1976)
Munich, Hirmer Verlag, 1976Two volumes (30 × 24 cm), I (Zur Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte der Max-Emanuel-Zeit): xviii, 486 pp., numerous illustrations (many in colour). II (Katalog): xvi, 420 pp., numerous illustrations (many in colour). - Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, original plain card slipcase. - The first volume contains an introduction the editor, Hubert Glaser, and 35 essays (some fifteen are grouped together under “Hof und Kunst”); the almost 1000 exhibits are described in the second volume, by 34 experts. A large number are books and prints. ¶ Laminate on wrappers cracking along the joints. Very good, unmarked copy. -
Civiltà del '700 a Napoli 1734-1799 (catalogue of an exhibition organised by Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, December 1979-October 1980)
Florence, Centro Di, 1980Two volumes (24 cm), I: (4) 445 (1) pp. II: 493 (1) pp., profusely illustrated. Uniform publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The first volume of the catalogue is devoted to history and culture, architecture, paintings and drawings; among the essays are Francis Haskell on patronage and collecting and Anthony Blunt on late Baroque Neapolitan architecture. Volume II is devoted to late Baroque and Rococo sculpture, scenography and the decorative arts, including tapestries, Majolica ware and porcelain, coins and medals and furniture; among the essays are Alberto Guarino on book illustration (pp.279-290) and Franco Mancini on scenography (pp.301-370). Full catalogue entries with explanatory texts and reproductions of each object. ¶ Some shelf wear, but still a very good, unmarked copy. -
The Golden Age of Naples : Art and civilization under the Bourbons 1734-1805 (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 11 August-1 November 1981; and Art Institute of Chicago, 18 January-8 March 1982)
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981Two volumes (30 cm), xxiv, 472 pp. (consecutively paginated), profusely illustrated including 16 plates in colour. Uniform publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes essays by Anthony Blunt (Architecture) and Francis Haskell (Art patronage and collecting in Bourbon Naples during the 18th century). ¶ Wrappers lightly rubbed; otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. -
The Georges De Belder collection of Neo-classicism
London, Bernard Quaritch, [1984?](28.5 cm), 144 pp. Orange paper-covered boards. - Short-title inventory of the book collection of the Belgian bibliophile Georges de Belder (1922-1982), now substantially in the Getty Research Institute. The catalogue is divided into three parts: the rediscovery, codification and interpretation of antiquity; the neo-classical book; and the reference collection. “The condition of the books was remarkable in itself, not only for the wealth of fine bindings (the collection figured prominently in Culot’s monograph on Bozerian in 1979) but also because almost everything not in a superb binding (including the celebrated set of the Encyclopédie) seemed to be uncut and in early boards… It will surely stand as the principal record of a subject still too little explored, and it was certainly no understatement for the introduction to close with the remark ‘It is unlikely that the opportunity to build such a collection will ever occur again.’” (from a review in The Book Collector, Spring 1985, p.97). The catalogue was not generally circulated and is rare. This is the unillustrated issue (a few copies were distributed with tipped-in colour plates). ¶ Light shelf-wear; otherwise an excellent, unmarked copy. -
Central European Drawings 1680-1800 : a selection from American collections (catalogue of an exhibition Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 21 October-3 December 1989; and University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, 10 January-25 February 1990)
Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 1989(28 cm), xvi, 292 (2) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - 105 catalogue entries. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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