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Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando 9780226538525
RRP: $51.68$43.86Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,... -
It's True, It's True, It's True Breach Theatre (Author) 9781350321984
RRP: $21.43$18.84Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this... -
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art by Mary D. Garrard
RRP: $107.25$88.35Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life and... -
Frida Kahlo Hettie Judah 9781786277114
RRP: $25.33$16.77Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed the world.Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll,... -
European Art of the Seventeenth Century by Rosa Giorgi
RRP: $42.88$38.12The seventeenth century was an era of absolute monarchs, the Habsburgs of Spain and Louis XIV of France, whose patronage of the arts helped furnish their opulent palaces. But it was also the beginning of a new era of commercialism, in which artists... -
Rubens & Women Ben van Beneden 9781898519492
RRP: $54.60$37.42The art of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is synonymous with the female nude, with the term 'Rubenesque' first coined in the 19th century to describe a voluptuous female body. Yet remarkably, there has never been a focused study of Rubens' depictions of... -
Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley 9780198789734
RRP: $29.23$21.35Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We... -
The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting Norbert Wolf 9783791384061
RRP: $193.05$141.20The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in the fields of commerce, science-and art. Still lifes, landscape paintings, and romantic depictions of everyday life became valued by the... -
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome by Livio Pestilli
RRP: $117.00$89.66Bernini and His World is a unique exploration of Gian Lorenzo Bernini the sculptor, offering new insights and including discussions of the artist's stylistic innovations and the ways in which he approached sculpture. Placing his life and work within a... -
Lives of Velazquez Francisco Pacheco 9781843681670
RRP: $21.43$14.43Collected for the first time in a new translation: two of the most important and far-reaching biographies of an artist ever written, and our principal sources for the life of Velazquez. Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) is for many the greatest painter ever to... -
Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age Bart Cornelis 9781857096545
RRP: $29.25$27.40An expert look at the life and captivating work of the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes, Rembrandt's most famous pupil This book offers a close look at the art of Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693). One of Rembrandt's most talented students,... -
Fragonard: Painting out of Time by Satish Padiyar
RRP: $78.00$76.83At the time of his death in 1806, the Rococo artist Jean-Honore Fragonard had not painted for two decades. Following a period of huge public success, the painter's reputation fell. Personally secretive, Fragonard created revealing images that undermined... -
The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried 9780691147017
RRP: $120.90$97.15This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo... -
Pasta For Nightingales: A 17th-century handbook of bird-care and folklore Helen Macdonald 9781909741492
RRP: $29.15$19.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909741492Author Helen MacdonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 510g -
Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo by Cynthia Burlingham
RRP: $77.98$56.12Accompanying a major exhibition, this book brings together around 120 of the most significant examples of Victor Hugo's works on paper. It features previously unpublished drawings and insightful texts that reveal Hugo's extraordinary talents as a... -
Rembrandt: Masters of Art by Stefano Zuffi
RRP: $19.48$13.86Celebrated for his penetrating portraits, richly detailed landscapes and evocative narrative paintings, the seventeenth century artist Rembrandt is generally considered one of Europe's greatest painters and printmakers, and the master of the Dutch School... -
The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini: A Translation and Critical Edition, with Introduction and Commentary, by Franco Mormando by Domenico Bernini
RRP: $56.45$51.56Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright, was the most influential artist of seventeenth-century Rome and, indeed, one of the leading creative forces in European art for most of that century. He is universally... -
Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time by Bernadine Barnes 9781780237404
RRP: $35.00$25.19Today Michelangelo's painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified by others so that some are barely recognizable. But his art was made to be viewed in churches, homes and... -
Artemisia Gentileschi by Sheila Barker
RRP: $68.25$52.03Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist's pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career... -
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers
RRP: $70.20$68.70"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... -
Industry and Ingenuity: The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew by Hugh Roberts
RRP: $146.25$103.16The 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... -
Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History by Caroline Dakers 9781787350465
RRP: $117.00$103.94Apologies 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 -
Velazquez. the Complete Works by Jose Lopez-Rey
$136.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836581790Author Jose Lopez-ReyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint TaschenPublisher TaschenWeight(grams) 3405g -
The Peter Paul Rubens Atlas: The Great Atlas of the Old Flemish Masters Gunter Hauspie 9789401449267
RRP: $53.63$34.89This is the first title in a new prestigious cultural tourism project by Lannoo Publishers. The Peter Paul Rubens Atlas illustrates the life of Rubens on a timeline: important dates and periods in the life of the Old Master are indicated and elaborated... -
British Baroque: Power & Illusion by Tabitha Barber 9781849766814
RRP: $48.75$39.04A fresh and visually breathtaking new look at the art of the late Stuart period in Britain (1660-1714) From the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714, the late Stuart period was a time of change for Britain. This... -
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World by Andrew Moore 9780300232905
RRP: $117.00$102.59The Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of the... -
Rubens: Painter of Sketches by Friso Lammertse 9788484804710
RRP: $66.30$42.55Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is the most important painter of sketches in the history of European art. His Italian and Flemish predecessors had for the most part prepared their paintings by using drawings. Rubens transformed this process by... -
Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light by Martin Kemp
RRP: $87.75$66.30Dante 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... -
Elisabetta Sirani by Adelina Modesti
RRP: $68.25$52.03Elisabetta 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... -
Rubens, Velazquez, and the King of Spain Aneta Georgievska-Shine 9781138251649
RRP: $105.28$91.40This study provides a new analysis of the pictorial ensemble of the Torre de la Parada, the hunting lodge of King Philip IV of Spain. Created in the late 1630s by a group of artists led by Peter Paul Rubens, this cycle of mythological imagery and hunting... -
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art Babette Bohn (Texas Christian University, USA) 9781444337266
RRP: $95.45$85.08A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history... -
Guercino's Friar with a Gold Earring: Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Painter and Art Dealer by David M. Stone 9781785514159
RRP: $68.25$56.98Who is the intriguing man wearing a religious habit and a gold hoop earring in this portrait by Italian Baroque master Il Guercino? And why does he point to a stack of drawings? This fascinating book investigates The Ringling's portrait of Fra... -
Jeremias Held. 'Liber Emblematum' (Frankfurt-Am-Main 1566): 'Liber Emblematum' (Frankfurt-Am-Main 1566) by Andrea Alciato 9782503525396
$96.02Apologies 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 -
A New History of Western Art: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Koenraad Jonckheere
RRP: $107.25$89.10A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana... -
Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley 9780198789727
RRP: $56.53$40.33Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We... -
The Intimate Rembrandt by Christopher White 9781838395322
RRP: $78.00$54.21Christopher White explains why he chose this title for his new book: 'The often intimate, reflective and personal side to Rembrandt's work in treating subjects from history or the Bible reveals an increasingly more introspective interpretation than his... -
Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900 Bert De Munck 9781472451965
RRP: $263.25$229.48In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as... -
Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg
RRP: $109.20$93.78Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary... -
Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779: A Celebration of British Craftsmanship and Design Adam Bowett 9781999922917
RRP: $126.75$84.34This is the catalogue of the 2018 Leeds exhibition celebrating the tercentenary of Thomas Chippendale's birth. It covers all 95 exhibits including furniture, drawings, engravings, textiles and wallpaper, together with other contemporary and later... -
Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting by Catherine Whistler
RRP: $82.88$74.12An impressive overview of drawing in Venice, from the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo From the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo, drawing was an important part of artistic practice and was...