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Botticelli, Signorelli and Savonarola: Theologia poetica and painting from Boccaccio to Poliziano (Olschki, Firenze, Biblioteca di “Lettere Italiane”) by Stanley Meltzoff.

Softcover binding, fully Illustrated, 1989, which won the Eric Mitchell prize in 1989 for best first art historical book. It is a description of the defense of freedom of expression in poetry and painting in Botticelli’s “The Calumny of Apelles” and Signorelli’s frescoes of the Last Judgment in Orvieto.

Price $90.00 plus shipping.

Scientific American’s Art in Science (1954) and Art in Science II (1960). These are 11½” x 13½“ boxed sets of 32 (book 1) and 40 (book 2) color reproductions on Polar Superfine Enamel paper. Each plate is separated by an vellum folio page imprinted with a brief legend describing the plate. It is a loose-leaf format, in a hinged box. They are new, unopened in the original shipping boxes.

Scientific American: Art in Science (A Portfolio of 32 Paintings, Drawings and Photographs)

New York: Simon & Schuster/Scientific American, 1954.

Includes a 3-page preface, “ Art in Science “ by Gyorgy Kepes.

32 individual folio color plates that appeared in Scientific American. Work by Stanley Meltzoff, Walter Murch, Rudolph Freund, Ben Shahn, and others. I have 3 plates in this book with Sea Bottom Cores as the box cover (Sea bottom Cores, Solid State Maser, and Three Symbols of Newton).

Price $75.00 plus shipping.

Scientific American: Art in Science II (A Portfolio of 40 Paintings, Drawings and Photographs)

New York: Simon & Schuster/Scientific American, 1960.

Includes a 4-page preface, “The Creative Process” by J. Bronowski.

40 individual folio color plates that appeared in Scientific American. Work by Stanley Meltzoff, Walter Murch, Rudolph Freund, Ben Shahn, and others. I have 6 plates in this book, (Oceanographic Instruments, Prehistoric America, Bird flight, Animal Navigation, Fertilization of Flowers, Wheat, and Scintillation Counters).

Price $85.00 plus shipping.


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