Presenting Stefano della Bella : seventeenth-century printmaker / Phylis Dearborn Massar

Identifier:REF.AM.2421

Dimensions:141 p. illus. 29 cm.

Copyright dates:1971

published by: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Graphic Society

Subjects: printmakers, prints

Description:"Born in Florence in 1610, Della Bella became one of the most admired printmakers of the seventeenth century -- an artist of unstinting productivity, superb style, and wide-ranging subject matter. This book, the first one in English to illustrate an account of his career with a comprehensive selection from his work, puts him on view as maker of landscapes, marines, city scenes, animal studies, mythological subjects, and fantasies..." -- Front matter.

Contents:
Introduction
Rome
Paris
On the Road
War
Landscape
Animals
By the Sea
Death
Epilogue
Notes on the illustrations
Deleted inscriptions