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London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Very good, oversized, hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket. Gold cloth covered boards, with gilt stamp to front, and gilt lettering to spine. Very light shelf and handling wear, including minor creasing to DJ edges, and light tanning to page edges. Leaves are tightly bound, content is unmarked. Beautifully illustrated throughout, colours vibrant. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.
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The Chapel of the Magi: The Frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli Hardcover - 1994
by Palazzo Medici Riccardi; Cristina Acidini Luchinat (Editor)
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A glittering cavalcade of men and animals winds through a rocky landscape under an azure sky. The men are dressed in all the luxury of Italian fifteenth-century fashions, in brilliant colors, damask, gold brocade. They ride horses and camels with various exotic creatures to amuse them - dogs, cheetahs, peacocks and monkeys. In the background are forests and picturesque towered towns. This is the procession of the Magi on their way to worship the newborn Christ, painted in the chapel of the Palazzo Medici, Florence, in 1459. The artist was Benozzo Gozzoli, formerly an assistant of Fra Angelico. For their sheer beauty, their precision, and their almost fairy-tale-like quality, these frescoes have always been among the most popular of all Western paintings. The Medici family chapel is a jewel-like room and, despite changes that have been made to it over the years, it houses the best preserved of Renaissance fresco cycles. This magnificent volume reproduces the frescoes in all their glory, taking us through the chapel wall by wall - showing the entire surface and then series of details reproduced in actual size. It is in the details, with their vivid brushwork, that the magic of these frescoes resides: costumes, jewels, weapons, trees, distant castles, flowers, birds of all kinds, animals, streams, rocks - and faces, many of them identifiable portraits of Gozzoli's Florentine contemporaries, notably the powerful Medici themselves. These remarkable photographs were taken after the chapel's recent cleaning: not only do the colors glow with a new brilliance, but features have been revealed that could not have been seen before. The photographs are complemented by lucid texts which examine thechapel as a whole, its art-historical context, the individual murals and the problems and procedures involved in the conservation of the paintings.
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- Title The Chapel of the Magi: The Frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli
- Author Palazzo Medici Riccardi; Cristina Acidini Luchinat (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 388
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Thames & Hudson, London
- Date October 1994
- ISBN 9780500236918 / 0500236917
- Weight 5.98 lbs (2.71 kg)
- Dimensions 11.28 x 10.29 x 1.52 in (28.65 x 26.14 x 3.86 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Benozzo - Criticism and interpretation, Benozzo
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94060292
- Dewey Decimal Code 759.5
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- Library Journal, 12/01/1994, Page 86
- Publishers Weekly, 10/24/1994, Page 49
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London/New York: Thames & Hudson, 1994. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding is tight.). Goldenh cloth boards with gilt stamped design and lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering in mylar cover. 387 pp. Color illustrations. "A glittering cavalcade of men and animals winds through a rocky landscape under an azure sky. The men are dressed in all the luxury of Italian fifteenth-century fashions, in brilliant colors, damask, gold brocade. They ride horses and camels with various exotic creatures to amuse them - dogs, cheetahs, peacocks and monkeys. In the background are forests and picturesque towered towns. This is the procession of the Magi on their way to worship the newborn Christ, painted in the chapel of the Palazzo Medici, Florence, in 1459. The artist was Benozzo Gozzoli, formerly an assistant of Fra Angelico. For their sheer…
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London; New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Translated Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 387 pages: color illustrations; 29 cm. Contents: The Chapel of the Magi/ Cristina Acidini Luchinat -- A Neoplatonic Pavement/ Maria Teresa Bartoli -- The Adoration of the Child by the Workshop of Filippo Lippi/ Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi -- The Chapel of the Magi: The Procession of the Magi / Cristina Acidini Luchinat -- The East Wall -- The South Wall -- The South-West Corner -- The West Wall -- The Side Bands -- The Choirs of Angels / Cristina Acidini Luchinat -- The West Wall of the Chancel -- The East Wall of the Chancel -- The Altar Wall -- The Chapel of the Magi in Benozzo Gozzoli's Oeuvre/ Anna Padoa Rizzo -- The Medici and Citizens in The Procession of the Magi: A Portrait of a Society/ Cristina Acidini…
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