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Timber-framed Buildings by Richard Hayman
RRP: $18.88$14.62Timber-framed buildings are a distinctive and treasured part of Britain's heritage, with such noteworthy examples as Little Moreton Hall, Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Lavenham Guildhall. The oldest are medieval but their numbers peaked in the sixteenth... -
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace 9780691195490
RRP: $52.50$41.14The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were... -
Renaissance Architecture by Christy Anderson
RRP: $49.33$35.72The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change. Encompassing the entire continent, Renaissance Architecture examines the rich variety of buildings... -
Palladio by James S. Ackerman
RRP: $27.28$19.09Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas,... -
Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings by Vaughan Hart 9780300141498
RRP: $73.50$65.46Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He... -
Florence: A Traveller's Reader Edward Chaney 9781472141293
RRP: $27.28$18.06'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of FlorenceThe rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought vividly to life for today's visitor in this collection... -
A History of Western Architecture Seventh Edition Owen Hopkins 9781529420302
RRP: $94.50$61.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529420302Author Owen HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Rome of Paul III (1534-1549): Art, Ritual and Urban Renewal Guido Rebecchini 9781912554430
RRP: $178.50$169.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912554430Author Guido RebecchiniFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm)... -
Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy by Professor Richard Schoch 9781350409354
RRP: $52.50$39.65In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not... -
Elizabethan Architecture by Mark Girouard 9780300093865
RRP: $105.00$93.56Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture- the uniquely strange and exciting buildings built by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed for feasting and hunting-is a phenomenon as remarkable as the... -
Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History by Caroline Dakers 9781787350465
RRP: $126.00$111.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350465Author Caroline DakersFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1130g -
Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning Leland M. Roth 9780367724658
RRP: $172.18$149.73The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that... -
Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon's Eye by Caspar Pearson 9781789145212
RRP: $37.70$27.13One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti's output encompassed engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humour, political commentary and more. He employed irony, satire and playful... -
Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe by Basile Baudez
RRP: $126.00$101.43The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through colorArchitectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in... -
A Brief History of the Mediterranean by Jeremy Black
RRP: $23.08$7.37A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home.'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean... -
Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Fabio Barry
RRP: $73.50$65.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300248173Author Fabio BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Sansovino's Venice by Vaughan Hart
RRP: $57.75$48.91This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was... -
Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures by Andrea Scapolo
RRP: $237.30$225.86Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together or separates the past and the present, the public and the private, the center and the periphery. The present volume focuses on the... -
The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England by Maurice Howard
RRP: $94.50$81.12While the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the destruction of much of England's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emerged. In the following century, former monasteries were eventually adapted to a... -
Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo by David Hemsoll
RRP: $126.00$106.49A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how... -
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes by Philip Steadman 9781787359178
RRP: $105.00$91.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359178Author Philip SteadmanFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 970g -
Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire by Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez
RRP: $165.80$148.66Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, neither the king's monastery nor his collections fully convey the rich artistic... -
Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences by Mohammad Gharipour 9780271077796
RRP: $207.80$185.05The cross-cultural exchange of ideas that flourished in the Mediterranean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries profoundly affected European and Islamic society. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires considers the role and place... -
The Mary, Queen of Scots Colouring Book by Roland Hui 9788494649875
RRP: $20.98$14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788494649875Author Roland HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Madeglobal PublishingPublisher Madeglobal PublishingWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 297mm... -
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes by Philip Steadman 9781787359161
RRP: $63.00$56.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359161Author Philip SteadmanFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 794g -
Humanism and the Urban World: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City by Caspar Pearson
RRP: $60.80$54.68In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten... -
The Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto: in the Age of Palladio by Deborah Howard
RRP: $63.00$55.76The remarkable career of the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is largely due to an extraordinary moment of prosperity in the Veneto mainland, both in the city and in the countryside: a boom due in large measure to a little-studied revolution in... -
Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi by Ann C. Huppert
RRP: $136.50$114.98A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings, coupled with an undeservedly... -
Ancient Manuscripts of the Freemasons by Michael R Poll 9781088288740
RRP: $31.48$23.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088288740Author Michael R PollFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 336g -
History of Ottoman Renaissance Art: From Mehmed I to Selim II: Revised Edition by Metin Mustafa 9780646827391
RRP: $107.29$93.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646827391Author Metin MustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Centre for Ottoman Renaissance and CivilisationPublisher Centre for Ottoman... -
Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico: The Casa de Montejo by C. Cody Barteet
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building's Plateresque facade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatan. C. Cody Barteet... -
Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, Volumes 1 and 2 by Machtelt Israels
RRP: $201.50$165.08The 177 essays in these two richly illustrated volumes represent the cutting edge of Italian Renaissance scholarship in nearly every one of its fields and were gathered to honor Joseph Connors, Director of Villa I Tatti from 2002 to 2010. Demonstrating I... -
All the King’s Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes by Indra Kagis Mcewen
RRP: $79.80$68.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047616Author Indra Kagis McewenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy Morgan Ng 9780300272048
RRP: $126.00$107.10A revelatory exploration of a crucial Renaissance art form—military architecture—and its unexpected connections with contemporary aesthetic, cultural, and technological innovations Urban fortifications were the most colossal artistic achievements of the...