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Catalogue of a loan exhibition of Italian primitives : in aid of the American War Relief

F. Kleinberger Galleries (New York, N.Y.), Sirén, Osvald, 1879-1966, Brockwell, Maurice W., 1869-1958 · 1917 · New York : F. Kleinberger Galleries, by Barnes Printing Co. · 30 pictures

This 1917 exhibition catalogue, published in New York by the F. Kleinberger Galleries with texts by Osvald Sirén and Maurice W. Brockwell, presents early Italian paintings lent in aid of American War Relief. The four plates show gold-ground altarpieces of the Madonna and Child with saints, angels and donors, in arched panel frames. For a designer, they offer a model of medieval devotional layout: symmetrical figures, haloes, patterned gilded textiles and tiered Gothic frames.

Painting, Italian

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