Author: FLICK, GERT-RUDOLF (1943- )
Title: Missing masterpieces : lost works of art 1450-1900 / Gert-Rudolf Flick
Description: London : British Art Journal in association with Merrell 1983. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Further scans. images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 344 pages; Physical description: 344 p. : colour illus. ; 29 cm. Summary: In this ground-breaking study of missing masterpieces. Gert-Rudolf Flick presents detailed case histories of great works of art that have simply vanished. None of them is known for certain to have been destroyed; all of them are recorded in the form of copies. drawings. studies. or engravings. Tantalizingly. any of them might turn up at any time. Subjects: Art history- Art objects - Loss and damage - Confiscation and recovery. Art theft - Paintings. Art - collecting and collectors. Contents: Holbein : Hans von Zu¨rich -- Vermeyen : Mulay Ahmad -- Sebastiano : Giulia Gonzaga -- Michelangelo : David -- Batoni and Hamilton : Andromache and Hector -- Pordenone : Hercules and Achelous -- Titian : Suleyman the magnificent -- Poussin : Time saving Truth from Envy and Discord -- Rembrandt : The circumcision -- Cariani : Christ carrying the cross -- Lodovico Carracci : The birth of St. John the Baptist -- Lotto : Night nativity -- Palma Giovane : Jupiter and Antiope -- Domenichino : Lot and his daughters -- Titian : Isabella d'Este in red -- Jacques-Louis David : Lepeletier on his death-bed -- Caravaggio : Alof de Wignacourt -- Rubens : George Villiers. Duke of Buckingham -- Franc¸ois Boucher : Le de´part de Jacob -- Chardin : L'e´tude du dessin -- Rubens : Landscape with antique ruins -- Correggio : Madonna and child with saints -- Jacopo. Gentile and Giovanni Bellini : Gattamelata altarpiece -- Titian : Mary Magdalen inpenitence.Weight in Kg appr.:

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