Annibale Carracci: A Study in the Reform of Italian Painting Around 1590 (2 Vols)

Published as Volume V of the National Gallery of Art Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, Posner’s monumental study remains the definitive scholarly work on Annibale Carracci. Posner re-evaluates Carracci’s pivotal role in the transition from art-for-art-sake Mannerism to a more accessible naturalism. Two Volumes. The first volume comprises the text, tracing Carracci’s artistic development and influence. The second presents a catalogue raisonné with detailed entries and an extensive photographic record. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines. No dust-jackets. Volume I: Text, 183 pp., with colour frontispiece. Volume II: Catalogue and Plates, 351 pp., with colour frontispiece, 121 black-and-white figures, 346 black-and-white plates, and 10 colour plates.

Condition: ex-library copies with usual stamps, labels an markings. Text block clean and fresh. Boards a little worn and scuffed.