The art of the goldsmith in late fifteenth-century Germany : the Kimbell Virgin and her bishop / Jeffrey Chipps Smith

Fort Worth New Haven [Conn.] : Kimbell Art Museum ; Distributed by Yale University Press, 2006. 1st edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; vii, 86 pages : illustrations ; 23. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; The statuette : an introduction -- An artistic moment in time -- The art of the goldsmith -- A question of origin -- Bishop Wilhelm von Reichenau and Eichstätt -- The Virgin Mary and her bishop -- Marian piety -- The Kimbell Virgin and Child as a collector's object. Subjects; Wilhelm von Reichenau, Bishop of Eichstätt approximately 1426-1496 Art patronage. Wilhelm von Reichenau, Bishop of Eichstätt ca. 1426-1496. Jesus Christ Art. Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint ; Art. Jesus Christ ; Art. Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint ; Art. Kimbell Art Museum. Kimbell art museum (Fort Worth, Tex.). Virgin and Child (Silver figurine). Geschichte 1400-1500. 1400-1499. Silverwork Germany, Southern History 15th century. Silverwork Texas Fort Worth. Silverwork Germany, Southern History 15th century. Silverwork Texas Fort Worth. Art patronage. Silverwork. Madonna's. Southern Germany. Texas Fort Worth. Deutschland.