The Heritage of Apelles: Studies in the art of the Renaissance
by: Gombrich, E.H.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers, 250 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Gilt title on spine. Chapters include: The heritage of Apelles; Light, form, and texture in fifteenth-century painting north and south of the Alps; The form of movement in water and air; The grotesque heads; The earliest description of the Triptych; 'As it was in the days of Noe'; From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi; The leaven of criticism in Renaissance art: texts and episodes; The pride of Apelles: Vives, Durer and Bruegel. No dust jacket, clean copy.