Prague: The Crown of Bohemia 1347-1437 - Metropolitan Museum of Art Series Hardcover Book (2005, New in Shrink Wrap) | Art History Gift, Medieval Europe Collection, Museum Quality Display

Boehm, Barbara Drake. NY/New Haven. Yale University Press. 2005.

English, First Edition, New, HC, 4to, 12 1/2"x9 1/2", 480 pp.

ISBN: 9780300111385

New hardcover in shrink-wrap, publisher's pictorial dust jacket featuring full-color images to front and back panels, gold lettering over blue spine. Contents include essays and detailed entries on some 240 artworks drawn from American and European collections, an esteemed group of scholars traces the birth of distinctly Bohemian art in Prague in the mid-fourteenth century and its diffusion throughout Europe over the next hundred years. This beautifully illustrated book showcases the remarkable flowering of art in Prague during the reigns of the Holy Roman Emperor and the city's beginnings as an intellectual and artistic capital of the period.