Kreytenberg ~ ORCAGNA'S TABERNACLE ~ As New HC/DJ ~w/Gift Note from Photographer

Description: Gert Kreytenberg. ORCAGNA'S TABERNACLE IN ORSANMICHELE, FLORENCE. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994. Photographs by David Finn, with an inscribed gift card “For [recipients] with love – from Finn.” With 125 illustrations, including 17 superb plates in full color. 12″ x 9¼″, 176 pages, including schematics of the shrine. As New hardcover, spotless and apparently unread, in equally fine unclipped dj, conserved in an archival quality clear cover. The tabernacle of the Madonna in the Church of Orsanmichele in Florence is one of the great monuments of the Gothic period. Art historian Jacob Burckhardt has described this masterpiece as the most perfect work of its kind in Italian Gothic. Commissioned in 1349, it was to be a magnificent statement of Florentine piety, a marble shrine encrusted with mosaics and sculpture worthy of the wealth and the artistic heritage of the city. Andrea Orcagna, the foremost artist in Florence at the time, was chosen to design and oversee this project. Orcagna, a master painter at the height of his powers, had little experience as an architect or sculptor. However, he rose admirably to the task, organizing a team of stone carvers, masons, and mosaicists to create the last great expression of Florentine Gothic genius before the dawn of the Renaissance. This generously illustrated book documents the shrine in detail for the first time, revealing the complexity of its design, the harmony of its proportions and the exquisite precision of its carving. The author, Gert Kreytenberg, a noted authority on fourteenth-century Italian art, places the tabernacle in historical and social context, and in relation to Orcagna's work as a whole. The acclaimed photo-artist David Finn is world famous for his sensitive studies of sculpture. His wide-ranging work has illustrated magnificent books on Donatello, Michelangelo, and Bernini, among others. The David Finn Archive at the National Gallery of Art Library in Washington, DC, has cataloged over 140,000 of his images spanning the history of both Western and non-Western sculpture and including examples from Mesoamerican, Oceanic, and many other traditions.

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Location: Baltimore, Maryland

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