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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. 499, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Lenders List. Director's Foreword. Catalogue (pages 109-469. Biographies of the Artists. Bibliography. Index. Photograph Credits. DJ has slight wear. This exhibition was conceived and organized by Philippe de Montebello and Gerhard Bott, William D. Wixom, Chairman, Department of Medieval Art and several institutions. Both this book and the exhibition, Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, document the artistic vitality of one of the most influential urban centers in Europe to arise at the end of the Middle Ages. The selection of specific works of art, and the essays that illuminate them, give a clear focus to the period from the fourteenth through the first half of the sixteenth century. This was a transitional and pivotal time for Nuremberg in its evolution from an important but artistically self-contained Late Gothic town to a Renaissance city, whose artistic, humanistic, technological, and scientific endeavors were of far-reaching consequence. Another milestone of Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg is that it represents the remarkable international collaboration between the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The project, initiated by the Metropolitan Museum but quickly augmented and given impetus by the museum in Nuremberg, has been formed, carried forward, and refined by the two curators-in-charge, Rainer Kahsnitz and William D. Wixom. The selection of subjects and objects is theirs. This effort has resulted in a valuable overview of many aspects of the theme of the exhibition and, at the same time, has led to intelligent reappraisals of a number of unfamiliar-as well as familiar-works of art. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator).…