Hardcover
1968 · Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
by Delaisse, L. M. J.
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1968. Hardcover. VG-/Poor (boards bumped at corners, former owner name in ink inside front cover otherwise pages are clean, dustjacket has major rips/tears/fading/general wear). Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, pale blue dj with be illustration; 104 pp. of text plus 161 plates, unpaginated, several in color, color frontispiece. Text covers the political and spiritual milieu, the illuminated manuscripts, Dutch style, and Dutch presence abroad. From the dust jacket: "Dutch style differs from that of its neighbors in its more authentic, spontaneous vision and realistic representation of the external world and human activity. The humanistic realism of its style finds its religious counterpart in the Devotio Moderna, a movement that originated in western Holland during the same period and that foreshadowed Dutch Protestantism.
(Inventory #: 128089)