Pioneers of the Renaissance by Eugène Müntz

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MÜNTZ (Eugène) 'Les précurseurs de la Renaissance'. Paris and London, Librairie de l’Art, J. Rouam and Remington & Co, 1882. – Large quarto, half-morocco binding (wear to spine, cracked hinge), gilt top edge, VII-254 pp., 14 full-page black-and-white engravings and numerous in-text illustrations. A rare work. Contents: Introduction. Florentine precursors of the first generation: the sculptors of the Dome. Florentine collectors and archaeologists of the 15th century. Cosimo de’ Medici and his son. Lorenzo the Magnificent. The 1494 revolution and the dispersal of the Medici collection. Savonarola and the reaction against the Renaissance. The successors and heirs of the Medici. Conclusion.