Cosme Tura of Ferrara Tapa dura - 1998

Yale University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. A Near Fine copy in a Good dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight. Color illustrations. 8mm tear on upper edge of back dust jacket, 5cm tear on upper edge of spine dust jacket. Creasing on dust jacket.

Yale University Press. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0300072198 . Spots on top edge else near fine; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Yale University Press. 207 pages. Large size 30 cm x 26 cm hardback. Clean book but with a slightly torn dust jacket (dust jacket has a few slits at head of spine etc). Cosme Tura of Ferrara: Style, Politics and the Renaissance City, 1450-95. HEAVY BOOK - NO INTERNATIONAL POSTING POSSIBLE (outside the UK) . Very Good. Hardcover. 1998.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Hardcover. VG/VG. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 207 pp. 47 bw, 70 color plates. In the city of Ferrara, a major cultural and artistic centre of Renaissance Italy, Cosme Tura (c. 1430-1495) came to prominence as painter to the Este court. This book offers a new and wide-ranging approach to Tura's life and his enigmatic and stylistically idiosyncratic works. Stephen Campbell takes the career of Tura as a starting point for the investigation of such intriguing issues as the fifteenth-century artist's role and status in both court and urban culture and the bearing these conceptions may have had on Tura's distinctive style. Campbell provides an account of the role of the image in Ferrara's religious, political and intellectual life, broadening our understanding of the Renaissance beyond traditional discussions of visual culture that focus on Rome, Florence and Venice. The author discusses also how Tura and his… Leer más

New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1998. 4to. xii, 207 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Dj slightly edgeworn. Internally clean. Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. 0300072198 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1998.

Yale University Press, 1998-05-08. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.2589 in x 29.7970 in x 25.3299 in. Clean tight illustrated hardcover in jacket. A very good book in a very good dust jacket.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrated, index, xi, 207p. dj. 29cm.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xi, 207 p. : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-202) and index. Contents; Introduction: The painter, social identity, and cultural politics -- The 'Daedalian hand': style, virtuosity and artistic persona -- 'Non vanis aut lascivis': painting, poetry, and the Studio of Belfiore -- 'O sacro corpo': devotional images and the art of sanctity -- The Roverella, the Jews, and the image of ecclesiastical statehood -- Paintings for the Cathedral of Ferrara: visual polemic and the uses of art theory. Subjects; Tura, Cosm� approximately 1430-1495 Criticism and interpretation. Painting, Renaissance Italy Ferrara. Painters Italy ; Biography. Painting, Italian. Painting, Renaissance Italy Ferrara. Painting, Italian 15th century.… Leer más

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. hardcover. fine/near fine. Cosme Tura. Illustrated with color and b/w images throughout. 207 pages. 4to, blue boards, d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1997). A fine copy in a near fine wrapper.<br/> <br/>

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.