[Renaissance art] 136 albumen photos of Italian Renaissance masterpieces
Italy, ca. 1870. 26 x 34 x 7 cm. 42 cardboard lvs. Painters' names written in ink, wooden covers w. ornamentation and relief portraits of Italian painters, edges gilt. Mostly Italian painters from the collections of the Uffizi and the Louvre and some possibly from private collections. A.o.: Botticelli; Raphael; Da Vinci; Sodoma; Vasari; Del Sarto; Fra Angelica; and Dolci.
Lacks spine. Interesting document regarding the 19th cent. reception of Renaissance art.