Victoria and Albert Museum

Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy

Italian Gothic Sculpture in the Victoria & Albert Museum

An Ivory by Giovanni Pisano

Giovanni (di Paolo)

In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares the ultimate goal of human striving -the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensity -an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and, above all, "the Love that moves the Sun and other stars."

The Illuminations to Dante's "Divine Comedy"

Paradiso

Italian Renaissance Sculpture

John Pope-Hennessy

Luca Della Robbia

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars

Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection

Italian Gothic sculpture

First published in 1955-63, Sir John Pope-Hennessy's classic Introduction to Italian Sculpturestill stands as the definitive introduction to the subject. A triumph of clear organization, sustained critical scholarship and certain aesthetic judgement, its three volumes bring order to a huge mass of material, and present a magisterial survey of one of the most creative phases in Western art. These books have long been indispensable for scholars, students, curators, collectors and dealers. For the fourth edition of this great work, the text has been revised and updated, and new notes and bibliographies have been added. The design has been dramatically transformed, with all the illustrations now appearing in a single sequence integrated with the narrative text. Many new photographs have been obtained, and duotone printing has been used to achieve the highest possible quality of reproduction. This classic work is now also reissued in a paperback edition, at a price that will make it available to students and a wider public.

Italian Renaissance sculpture

Paolo Uccello

The Complete Work of Paolo Uccello

John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, Sir

Distributors in the U.S.A.: Frederick A. Praeger, New York.

Essays on Italian Sculpture

An Introduction to Italian Sculpture: Italian High Renaissance and Baroque scuplture

An Introduction to Italian Sculpture

Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy

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