History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600 books

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Michelangelo: the last decades

Michelangelo: the last decades

Author: Sarah Vowles ,  Grant Lewis
ISBN: 9780714126982
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Tracing the final 30 years of Michelangelo's career, this book examines how the great master used art and faith...  Read More >>

Illuminating the Vitae patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy

Illuminating the Vitae patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints...

Author: Denva Gallant (Rice University)
ISBN: 9780271095639
Format: Hardback
$206.00

Examines the most extensively illustrated codex of the Vitae patrum, The Lives of the Desert Fathers, to show how...  Read More >>

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians...

Author: Wayne Kalayjian
ISBN: 9781639365869
Format: Hardback
$49.99

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse,...  Read More >>

Pearls for the Crown: Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion

Pearls for the Crown: Art, Nature, and Race in the Age...

Author: Mónica Domínguez Torres (University of Delaware)
ISBN: 9780271096810
Format: Hardback
$179.25

Examines a selection of artworks featuring pearls and pearl fishing scenes that demonstrate the interplay between...  Read More >>

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early...

Author: Olga Maria Hajduk
ISBN: 9781032657875
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533-c. 1600), a Florentine sculptor...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South of the Alps

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South...

Author: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
ISBN: 9781032324944
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came...  Read More >>

Sofonisba Anguissola

Sofonisba Anguissola

Author: Cecilia Gamberini
ISBN: 9781848224902
Format: Hardback
$107.00

Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, was one of...  Read More >>

Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe: A Silent Rhetoric

Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe: A Silent...

Author: Kim W. Woods
ISBN: 9781848226739
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe explores medieval sculptors’ motif of the open mouth. The speech mode,...  Read More >>

Art and Its Geographies: Configuring Schools of Art in Europe (1550-1815)

Art and Its Geographies: Configuring Schools of Art...

Author: Ingrid Vermeulen
ISBN: 9789463728140
Format: Hardback
$467.28

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The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador

The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery...

Author: Jeff Webb
ISBN: 9781487555351
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation: Training the Literate Eye

Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation:...

Author: Stephanie A. Leitch (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781009444521
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Illustrations in the now little-known genres of cosmographies and physiognomies coached early modern readers to...  Read More >>

Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity

Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity

Author: Troy Thomas
ISBN: 9781789148701
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A highly original, beautifully illustrated study of master Renaissance artist Caravaggio.  Read More >>

Art & War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries

Art & War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries...

Author: Dr. Sylvain Bellenger ,  Dr. Thomas P. Capmbell 
ISBN: 9780847899890
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Art & War in the Renaissance, published to coincide with a major traveling exhibition, presents distinctive arms...  Read More >>

Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period: Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces

Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period: Exhibiting...

Author: Pamela Bianchi (École Supérieure d'Art et Design Toulon)
ISBN: 9781032214719
Format: Paperback
$77.99

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders...  Read More >>

Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome

Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome

Author: Karen J. Lloyd
ISBN: 9781032119670
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo...  Read More >>

Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art

Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman...

Author: Gabriel Pihas
ISBN: 9781032105604
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient...  Read More >>

Private Honour and Noble Masculine Image in Early Modern England: Sir Robert Sidney and His Contemporaries

Private Honour and Noble Masculine Image in Early Modern...

Author: Erika D'Souza
ISBN: 9781032365688
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The permeability between the private and public spheres in the Renaissance led to an emergence of new forms of masculine...  Read More >>

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Author: Walter Pater
ISBN: 9781835918517
Format: Paperback
$44.85

A collection of Walker Pater's essays that gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It provides a...  Read More >>

Synagonism: Theory and Practice in Early Modern Art

Synagonism: Theory and Practice in Early Modern Art...

Author: Yannis Hadjinicolaou ,  Joris van Gastel
ISBN: 9789004686700
Format: Hardback
$419.76

"The present volume explores for the first time the concept of synagonism (from “σύν”, “together” and “ἀγών”, ""struggle”)...  Read More >>

A Heavenly Jerusalem in Bruges: The Adornes Estate and the Jerusalem Chapel

A Heavenly Jerusalem in Bruges: The Adornes Estate and...

Author: Jan Dumolyn ,  Noël Geirnaert
ISBN: 9789464666946
Format: Hardback
$125.00

The rediscovery of an architectural gem in the heart of Bruges, this book highlights the extraordinary dynasty and...  Read More >>

Titian's Poetics: Selected Essays by David Rosand

Titian's Poetics: Selected Essays by David Rosand

Author: Diane H Bodart
ISBN: 9781915487360
Format: Hardback
$578.16

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Pisanello and the Grounds of Invention

Pisanello and the Grounds of Invention

Author: C Jean Campbell
ISBN: 9781915487124
Format: Hardback
$330.00

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Albrecht Dürer's Afterlife

Albrecht Dürer's Afterlife

Author: Jeffrey Chipps Smith
ISBN: 9781848224933
Format: Hardback
$123.00

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