Western Decorative Arts: Volume 1

by Philippe Verdier, Alison Luchs, Rudolf Distelberger

This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval, Renaissance, and later historic objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521470684
• ISBN13: 9780521470681
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.0" x 11.4"