RAFFAEL Vollstndige Ausgabe mit Handzeichnungen im Text und 96 Kupfertiefdrucktafeln

320 pages; Publisher's boards, backed with flat linen, small Madonna and child device after a drawing by Raphael. A few stray marks to the boards and toning of the text paper, but a well preserved copy. The author, Herman Grimm [1828-1901] was the son and nephew of the renowned collectors of children's tales -- the Brothers Grimm. Grimm was the first holder of the chair of Art History at Berlin, in 1872 -- [Lehrstuhl fr Kunstgeschichte] -- and in that same year published the first, preliminary edition of this book, as 'Das Leben Raphaels.' He considered Raphael and Michelangelo to have been the two incomparably great figures in the entire history of art. While scholarly authority for his studies may have ebbed away over the years, this study retains social interest. Much of the nineteenth-century veneration of Raphael can be traced to the various editions of Herman Grimm's work. Note that the Nazi era editor Reinhard Jaspert and the publisher's have reverted to a spelling of the author's name in one of its original forms: Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. Did they consider "Raffael" better German than "Raphael"

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Publisher: Safari-Verlag

Year: 1941

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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