Giovanni Bellini, Rona Goffen, New Haven & London. Yale University Press. 1989, VG, 4to, Renaissance

Goffen, Rona. New Haven & London. Yale University Press. 1989.

English, Very Good, HC, 4to 12 ½ x 9 ½”, 347 pp.

Very Good quarto, blue cloth over board, silver gilt-stamped titling to spine, minor edgewear, minor foxing to top text block, otherwise tightly bound and no markings throughout. Minor sunning to top text block, otherwise pages pristine and intact, replete with full-color and black-and-white reproductions, many full page. [ix], 347 pp. , including illustrations and index. Very good pictorial dust jacket featuring detail of artist’s Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan and white titling to cover and spine, detail of Madonna and Child with Two Female Saints to back cover. Interior flaps include black lettering, protected in a paper-back Mylar-sleeve. Text in English. Contents include 195 full-color and black-and-white reproductions of artist’s works. Written by one of the most distinguished art historians specializing in Italian art of the High Renaissance, Rona Goffen, this magnificently illustrated book is the first major study of Bellini works focusing on the stylistic, cultural, and historical contexts.