Grünewald and His Contemporaries: Paintings from the Kunstmuseum, Basel
- ISBN-10
- 185709915X
- ISBN-13
- 9781857099157
- Category
- Painting, Renaissance
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Authors
- Susan Foister, Kunstmuseum
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