A New History Of Painting In Italy From The Second To The Sixteenth Century. Drawn Up From Fresh Materials And Recent Researches In The Archives Of Italy; As Well As From Personal Inspection Of The Works Of Art Scattered Throughout Europe. By J.A. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle, Authors Of 'The Early Flemish Painters.' Vol. I. (- III.)
London:: John Murray, Albemarle Street., 1864. (- 1866.) The Right of Translation is reserved.
Physical Description
3 vols.; 222 mm. (Octavo.)
General Note
Vol. I: xii, 596 p., [38] pl. - Vol. II: viii, 648 p., [28] pl. - Vol. III: xii, 618 p., [33] pl. (The plates carry no plate numbers but each carries the number of the page next to which it is to be bound.)
Responsibility Note
Each plate is captioned with the name of the source artist, where known. Some are signed by draughtsmen (G. S(charf) and other illegible names) and engravers (Martin, S. W(illiams), C.T. Thompson, A. Cooper, J. Cooper, I.L. Glasht?, W. Rumpel?).
Volume I is dedicated by the Authors to Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, President Of The Royal Academy, And Director Of The National Gallery. Volume III is dedicated by the Authors to Austen Henry Layard.
References
U. Kultermann, The history of art history (1993); D. Levi, Cavalcaselle (1988); C.J. Gibson-Wood, Studies in the theory of connoisseurship (1988); D. Sutton, 'Crowe and Cavalcaselle', in Apollo, CXXIII/282 (1985), p.11-17; J.A. Crowe, Reminiscences (1895).
Summary Note
The imprints give publication-dates of 1864, 1864 and 1866.
Most plates show Christian subjects.
At the end of the first volume the publisher's advertisement is bound in: 'Mr. Murray's General List Of Works' (November, 1863).
Immediate source of Acquisition
Purchased in, 1867. (see Librarian's Report, RA Annual Report for 1867, p.26).
19th-century green cloth, upper and lower covers decorated in blind, upper covers with gilt borders; spines lettered 'History of Painting in Italy. - Vol. I. (-III.) Crowe & Cavalcaselle. London John Murray.'
Subject
Painting - Churches - Italy - History - Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance
Christian art and symbolism
Art history - Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century