IN AUGUST COMPANY - PLUMMER JOHN

The collections of The Pierpont Morgan Library

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KORTE INHOUD

The Pierpont Morgan Library, once the private treasure house of American financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), is a major repository of artistic, literary, and historical materials dating from ancient times to the modern era. There are objects of breathtaking beauty and visual splendor, such as the jeweled covers of the magnificent Lindau Gospels, the lavishly illuminated Farnese Hours, and master drawings from Durer to Degas. Such works as the Gutenberg Bible and the first printing of the Declaration of Independence document turning points in the course of Western civilization. Still other works stand as unique records of the world's great creative geniuses, for example the sole surviving manuscript fragment of Milton's Paradise Lost and the original score of Mozart's majestic Haffner Symphony. In the words of Mark Twain, it is, indeed, an ''august company.''
This book, written for the general reader and scholar alike, reproduces and discusses over 175 of the finest objects from the Library'...
1992Taal: Engelszie alle details...
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1992Uitgever: ABRAMS HARRY N.310 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0810938634ISBN-13: 9780810938632
0810938634

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