Descripción

Ex reference library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - library plate inside front cover, stamp to rear of title page and a very small circular stamp to a few other pages. No other inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked tape-free grey cloth boards and a bump to upper corner of rear cover. Dust jacket not price clipped with small piece missing from top of spine and rubbing to edges. 184pp. Cosima Tura was the leading master of the Ferrarese school in the fifteenth century and works by him are to be found in key galleries around the world. His artistic style is closely related to that of the Expressionists, his colours seem to burn and flicker and a passionate restlessness warps the outlines of his figures. Illustrated with 85 coloured and black & white full-page plates.