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Neil MacGregor.
A Victim of Anonymity: The Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece.
Published London: Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Series: Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures, no. 25.
ISBN 0500550263;
ISBN-13: 9780500550267.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK.
Size: 158x216x10mm.
Page count: 48pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: this copy has some mild shop wear, dustjacket a little scuffed.

This item £4.50
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[Publisher’s price £8.95]
Weight without packaging: 244g.

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Are there miscarriages of justice in art history? However great an artist, if his name is lost he will not receive a fair verdict from posterity. No exhibitions will be devoted to his work; no books will be written about him; he will not even figure in indexes.

Among these neglected geniuses is the 15th-century painter known only as the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece. He may have been Netherlandish or German; he may or may not have been a monk. On stylistic grounds an œuvre of half a dozen paintings, three of them large altarpieces, are attributed to him, and from them a vivid, if hypothetical, personality can be built up: emotional, compassionate, observant, original, humorous. All that is certain is that he was a great painter whose name, if known, would rank with Botticelli or Holbein.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 34, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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