Bernini in France: An Episode in Seventeenth-Century History
Hardcover
1981 · London
by Gould, Cecil Hilton Monk
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. Hardcover. Good (Ex-Library, indicated only by a blind stamp on the ffep; boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly toned/foxed; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/Good (DJ is toned/scuffed/smudged/foxed.). Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine; Off-white DJ with black-and-white illustration and black and blue lettering; xvi, 158 pp.; 8 unnumbered leaves of plates; richly illustrated. "In the summer of 1665 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the greatest artist of his day and master of the Baroque style, paid a four and a half month visit to France. This book records his workings in the court of the young Louis XIV during that period." -- DJ. (Inventory #: 197149)