Decorative arts from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Subtitle: the complete plates
By: Carl Becker ; edited by Carsten-Peter Warncke = Angewandte Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Renaissance / Carl Becker ; herausgegeben von Carsten-Peter Warncke = Arts décoratifs du Moyen Age à la Renaissance / Carl Becker ; publié sous la direction de Carsten-Peter Warncke
Contributors: Warncke, Carsten-Peter; Hefner-Alteneck, Jakob Heinrich von, 1811-1903
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9783836505185
Subjects: Renaissance Decorative arts; Art objects; Medieval Decorative arts; Middle Ages in art
Other titles: Angewandte Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Renaissance; Arts décoratifs du Moyen Age à la Renaissance
Notes: Comprises reproductions of all the plates from C. Becker's Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, a joint production with Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck that was originally published between 1852 and 1863 (Frankfurt am Main : S. Schmerber). The plates are provided with descriptive texts by Carsten-Peter Warncke.

Descriptive texts and introductory essay in English, French and German.

Introductory essay by Carsten-Peter Warncke has title: Kunst im Bild : Hefner-Altenecks und Beckers Darstellung der Kunstwerke des Mittelalters und der Renaissance = Art in the picture : Hefner-Alteneck and Becker's presentation of the artworks of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

"The copy used for printing belongs to the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-407) and index.

Parallel text in English, German and French. Translated from the German.