Romanesque Painting from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century (The Great Centuries of Painting)
Translated into English by Stuart Gilbert. 1st English edition. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering 4to. . Very slightly rubbed on corners, small mark on front cover, front free endpaper absent else internally neat, clean, bright and tight, with gleaming images. Profusely illustrated in full colour with 99 tipped in illustrations. Part one of the book focuses on mural paintings in European countries; part two focuses on Book Illumination with chapters on Duration and Diffusion of Romanesque Book Illumination, Principal Types of Manuscripts, Romanesque Initial Letters and Pictorial Styles in the Romanesque Miniature.