The Hermitage, Leningrad : Baroque & Rococo Masters.

Cloth, 4to, 32 cm, xxviii, [95] pp, 95 colour plates From the blurb: "This sumptuous volume, containing 95 full-colour plates of paintings in the world-famous Hermitage Museum, covers an outstanding period of Western painting. The great masters of Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Great Britaìn are all represented, and the period covered reaches from Caravaggio's revolution in the use of light and shade to the finale of 18th Century Classicism. The volume contains reproductions of works by 55 artists including Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, El Greco, Velasquez, Zurbarán, Murìllo, Le Nain, Poussìn, Claude Lorrain, Watteau, Boucher, Chardin,Greuze, Fragonard, Mengs, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Wright, Hoppner and Morland. The Director of the State Hermitage, V. F. Levinson-Lessing, describes in the Introduction how this fabulous collection was brought together over the last three centuries. Detailed descriptions of the plates provide comprehensive information about individual paintings." Front board quite heavily spotted around edges, rear board and top edge of textblocksomewhat spotted, contents agetoned, in a creased and torn dustwrapper. with old tape-repairs.…