Museum Schnütgen in Cologne: A Survey of the Collection

The Museum Schnütgen boasts a uniquely diverse collection from a wide range of periods and genres, assembling works from late antiquity to the nineteenth century, and including sculpture, ivory carvings, gold work, textile art, and more. A compact, chronological overview of this internationally famous, multi-faceted collection, this volume attractively presents some two hundred and fifty works accompanied by trenchant and informative contributions which explain the individual objects and th...