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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light tanning and due to age but page faces are bright and good. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The statuettes and plaquettes in the Samuel H. Kress Collection form one of the most dis- tinguished groups of Renaissance bronzes to be found in any public or private collection. They incorporate the famous collection as- sembled during more than forty years by the French collector Gustave Dreyfus which was acquired by the Kress Foundation in 1945 and was given to the National Gallery of Art Washington in 1957. The 459 plaquettes offer an unrivalled survey of the small reliefs of Riccio Moderno Valerio Belli and other bronze sculptors in examples of superb quality and include major works by Alberti Francesco di Giorgio and Peter Vischer the Younger. The 130 statu- ettes and utensils include figure statuettes small animal bronzes inkstands candlesticks table bells and mortars. Of the 589 objects catalogued and reproduced in this volume 523 are by Italian artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the others come in the main from the Netherlands France and Germany. In this critical catalogue they are discussed by John Pope-Hennessy Keeper of the Department of Architecture and Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum whose intimate knowledge of Italian bronzes quali- fies him uniquely for this task. All the statuettes and plaquettes in the Kress Collection are illustrated in this volume for the most part in their original sizes. (MP)