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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Plates bright and vivid. Year 1964. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal at San Miniato in Florence is an impor- tant monument of early Renaissance art. It combines architecture sculpture and painting of a high order and presents a complete harmony of the arts something unique in early Renaissance art. The Chapel was built and decorated as the final resting place of a prelate who died at the early age of twenty-five. It received the services of some of the most eminent artists then working in Florence. Since the Cardinal was also a prince of the royal house of Portugal and related to several other European royal families large sums of money were made available and utilized in the construction of the building and the creation of its works of art. Although the Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal has been long appreciated as an important realization of the artistic ideals of the early Renaissance this pres ent volume is the first monograph to deal exclusively with its works of art its his tory and its meaning. The basis for this study is the discovery by Dr. Gino Corti of a large and extremely important group of hitherto unknown documents in the ledgers of the Cambini bank in Florence. This material pertains directly to the con- struction and decoration of the Chapel and provides information long sought by scholars interested in the building and the artists who combined their talents to create it. Now that the information is available. (MP)