Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece, Machtelt Israëls, Ed. 2 Vol. HC in Slipcase, Fine

Israëls, Machtelt, Ed. Leiden: Primavera Press, 2009.

English, First English Edition, Fine, HC, Fo, 13 1/2" x 10", Vol I: 329 pp. Vol II:626 pp.

ISBN: 9789059970724

Fine 2-volume folio in Fine pictorial slipcase. Maroon cloth over board, stamped gilt titling to cover and spine, tightly bound, pristine interior. Vol I: 329 pp. Vol II:626 pp. Replete with full-color reproductions.  Fine pictorial dust jackets with white titling to spine. Text in English. From the dustjacket: "Originally standing some six yards high, double-sided, with a splendid gilt frame over the main altar of the local Franciscan church, [the altarpiece] was the Rolls Royce of early Renaissance painting. But its myriad figures and scenes tempted the collectors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and today its disassembled panels can be found in twelve museums throughout Europe and the United States. To produce this landmark volume, experts in art and general history, painting technique and conservation, woodworking, architecture, and liturgy have joined forces across the boundaries of eight different nations. A model of collaboration, it opens new windows onto the creative process of the artist as he confronted a late-medieval church at a crossroad of cultures, the miracle-working body of a holy man, and a community of Franciscan friars breathing the exhilarating air of reform."