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Foto fornita dall'editore Treasury of Basel Cathedral (ISBN: 0300088493 / 0-300-08849-3) Husband, Timothy; Julien Chapuis, (Contributor) Descrizione libro: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Oversize Hardcover. Condizione libro: Good. Miraculously withstanding wars, an earthquake, and iconoclastic uprisings, the Treasury of Basel Cathedral avoided pillaging, and thus preserving reliquary crosses of gold, enamled and bejeweled; censers, chalices, and alter furnishings of engraved silver; reliquaries in the shape of caskets, figures, and in imitatio nof the human form; exquisite textiles; and eucharistic vessles, some towering over three feet in height. These are merely a sampling of the sumptuous works collected in this lavishly illustrated volume and in the exhibition that it accompanied @The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2001). Bibliography, Index. 150 illus. 105 in full color.ART-Middle Ages. Codice libro della libreria 004801 Size: Quarto