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Vermeer. The Complete Works by Karl Schütz
RRP: $105.00$93.35His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions from Amsterdam to Washington, DC; and special crowd-control measures at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, where... -
The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: $41.98$28.62Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Art in this overview guide to the... -
Caravaggio by Gilles Neret
RRP: $31.50$23.86Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on... -
From Invention to Perfection: Masterpieces of Eighteenth Century Decorative Art by Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo
RRP: $178.50$118.55One hundred masterpieces of European art and arts and crafts of the eighteenth century form a panorama of innovation, design and expert realisation. In their sumptuous design, the porcelain, furniture, bronzes and silver objects are all miracles of the... -
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
RRP: $37.80$33.18Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,... -
The Master Painters of the Dutch Golden Age: Their lives and works in 500 images by Susie Hodge
RRP: $35.68$27.89Named retrospectively, the Golden Age was a period when the new Dutch Republic had become the most prosperous nation in Europe, leading in trade, science and art. From 1600 for almost a century, more than four million paintings were produced there, and... -
Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Christopher R. Marshall
RRP: $120.75$103.53The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members of the growing professional... -
The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age by Henk van Nierop 9789463725101
RRP: $132.20$125.77Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and... -
Velazquez: Life & Works in 500 Images: His Life and Works in 500 Images : an Illustrated Study of the Artist, His Life and Context, with a Stunning Gallery of 300 of His Most Celebrated Paintings by Susie Hodge 9780754824046
RRP: $35.68$29.15A comprehensive reference book on the life and works of Diego Valazquez, the most important painter in the Spanish Habsburg court of King Phillip IV. Featuring a wonderful gallery of his paintings, accompanied by an expert analysis of each work, and a... -
Frans Hals: The Male Portrait by Leila Packer
RRP: $52.50$39.67This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals's highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent... -
Rubens: His Life and Works in 500 Images: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist, His Life and Context, with a Gallery of 300 Paintings and Drawings by Susie Hodge 9780754832898
RRP: $35.68$27.89Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most productive and exciting painters of his time, noted for his expressive, emotive and sensual paintings which are now instantly recognizable. Indeed, his voluptuous female figures have given rise to the word... -
Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas by Charles Harrison 9780631200642
RRP: $69.20$64.55Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its highly successful companion volumes, Art in Theory... -
Anthony Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture by Christopher White
RRP: $73.50$65.46A beautiful, lively tour through the portraits of one of the most celebrated painters of 17th century Europe In this sumptuously illustrated volume, eminent art historian Sir Christopher White places the portraiture of renowned Flemish painter Anthony... -
Elisabetta Sirani by Adelina Modesti
RRP: $73.50$56.03Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna (1638-1665) was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese School. Not only a painter, she was also a printmaker and a teacher. Based on extensive archival documentation and primary sources - including... -
Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture by Adam Eaker
RRP: $73.50$62.10A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to... -
Fantastic Ornament, Series Two: 118 Designs and Motifs by A. Hauser 9780486491219
RRP: $13.63$9.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486491219Author A. HauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm)... -
Rembrandt by Michael Bockemuhl
RRP: $31.50$23.86Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre encompasses religious, historical, and secular scenes, as well... -
The Viola d’Amore: Its History and Development by Rachael Durkin
RRP: $241.50$208.66This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d'amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings. Composers like Bach made use of the viola d'amore for its... -
Caravaggio - The Artist and His Work by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer 9781606060957
RRP: $105.00$92.51This is a fascinating re-evaluation of the life and works of a hugely talented yet controversial artist. The young Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) created a major stir in late-sixteenth-century Rome with the groundbreaking naturalism and... -
Rembrandt's Universe: His Art * His Life * His World by Schwartz
RRP: $73.50$49.48Published to coincide with the major exhibition at the National Gallery this autumn, here is the ultimate book on Rembrandt's art and life - his work as an artist, his family, friends and patrons, his place in European culture - by one of the world's... -
The Secret Language of the Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art by Richard Stemp
RRP: $41.98$28.88We may never know what the Mona Lisa is really smiling about, but we do know that there's much more to the masterpieces of Renaissance art than the beauty that meets the eye. There are layers of significance hidden below the surface of the works of... -
Silver: Transformational Matter by Helen Hills 9780197267547
$189.59Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics - philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly -... -
An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, The Pope and The Making of the Eternal City by Loyd Grossman 9781843681939
RRP: $52.48$35.24"A total delight, a brilliant vignette of 17th-century Rome, the Baroque and the Catholic church - warts and all - rolled into an erudite narrative.... with an ease of writing that is rare in art history." - Simon Jenkins By 1650, the spiritual and... -
Velázquez by Norbert Wolf
RRP: $31.50$23.86Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 1599 - August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spanish Golden Age, but among the most celebrated masters in all Western art history. Monet and Renoir, Corot... -
A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 by Jonathan Bober 9780691206516
RRP: $130.20$99.79The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque artGenoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the... -
Rembrandt by Rosalind Ormiston 9780754823780
RRP: $35.68$27.89An illustrated exploration of the artist, Rembrandt van Rijn, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his finest works. This is a fascinating biography that explores his early years, his personal life and the historical context of the early 17th... -
Rubens: Masters of Art by Michael Robinson
RRP: $20.98$14.93Arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque period, Peter Paul Rubens was an accomplished painter and draughtsman, as well as a valued diplomat. This accessible examination of his life and work looks at every aspect of Rubens's oeuvre; from his... -
Vermeer: The Complete Works by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
RRP: $39.88$28.10This study presents the complete works of the great Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. The text includes a short essay and commentaries on each of the paintings, and incorporates new research on Vermeer's life and extraordinary artistic achievements.Book... -
Grinling Gibbons: Master Carver by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: $18.88$14.18Master Carver Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) is famous for his breathtakingly delicate, intricate and realistic carvings, both in wood and stone. Tantalising cascades of fruit and flowers, puffy-cheeked cherubs, crowds of figures and flourishes of... -
Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light by Martin Kemp
RRP: $94.50$71.40Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a remarkable knowledge of the science of his era. His poems also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned... -
Industry and Ingenuity: The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew by Hugh Roberts
RRP: $157.50$117.03The first comprehensive study of William Ince and John Mayhew's famous eighteenth-century cabinetmaking partnership, complemented by high-quality photographs of their work. The partnership of William Ince (1737-1804) and John Mayhew (1736-1811) ran... -
Art and its Global Histories: A Reader by Diana Newall
RRP: $41.98$30.49The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism. The introduction sets out the state of... -
Rembrandt's Light by Jennifer Scott
RRP: $41.90$32.21A unique picture of Rembrandt's mastery of light and visual storytelling. Rembrandt's Light brings together 35 carefully selected paintings, concentrating on his greatest years from 1639-1658, when he lived in his ideal house at Breestraat in the... -
Caravaggio: Masters of Art by Stefano Zuffi
RRP: $20.98$14.93Although fewer than eighty of Caravaggio's painted works exist, they represent a critical moment in the development of European painting as the Renaissance style gave way to that of the Baroque. This monograph explores the Italian master's entire life... -
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $31.48$23.00'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the... -
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers
RRP: $75.60$73.98"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history... -
Rubens by Gilles Neret
RRP: $31.50$23.86There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the most important works from this astonishingly prolific oeuvre to... -
Artemisia Gentileschi by Jonathan Jones
RRP: $27.28$18.06Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day.As a young woman... -
Jeremias Held. 'Liber Emblematum' (Frankfurt-Am-Main 1566): 'Liber Emblematum' (Frankfurt-Am-Main 1566) by Andrea Alciato 9782503525396
RRP: $71.40$68.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503525396Author Andrea AlciatoFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 168mm * 20mm -
Baroquemania: Italian Visual Culture and the Construction of National Identity, 1898–1945 by Laura Moure Cecchini 9781526176370
RRP: $63.00$45.59Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. Offering a bold reassessment of post-unification visual culture, the book examines...