Iconography of the Saints in the Painting of North East Italy

Florence: Sansoni, 1978. Hardcover. VG/VG (light foxing to upper block edges). Navy cloth boards, gilt design on spine with burgundy title block and gilt lettering, xxx 1342 pp, color frontispiece, profusely illustrated in bw. This edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies. "This is the third volume of Dr. Kaftal's Iconography of the Saints in Italian Painting from its beginnings to the early XVIth century. The present volume covers the schools of romagna, Emilia and the Veneto (le tre Venezie). Dr. Kaftal's methodically rigorous approach, which half a century of constant research have sharpened to exacting accuracy, yields now and extraordinary abundance of unpublished material and supplies the reader with precious and documented information." - dust jacket. Includes bibliographical references (columns [1301]-1334). (Inventory #: 176656)