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Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science by Julian Bell
RRP: €29.75€18.89A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected in this moving account of overlooked artistic genius Adam Elsheimer, by an outstanding writer and critic. Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and... -
Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries by ,Brian,D. Gallagher 9781911282358
RRP: €53.55€40.90WINNER OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC CIRCLE AWARD 2021 A fascinating exploration of the inspiration behind, and development of, classically inspired sculpture and other ornamental wares in black basalt, the famous stoneware perfected by Josiah Wedgwood in... -
The Woburn Canalettos by Charles Beddington 9781843682066
RRP: €41.65€26.69In Venice, on the Grand Tour in 1731, the future fourth Duke of Bedford met with the great art agent, Consul Joseph Smith. The commission he placed resulted in 24 of the greatest and most typical works of Canaletto. First installed in Bedford House... -
Caravaggio. The Complete Works by Sebastian Schutze 9783836555814
€65.69Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a... -
Rubens - Picturing Antiquity by Davide Gasparotto
RRP: €41.65€36.38The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist... -
The Lives of Caravaggio by Giulio Mancini
RRP: €11.89€9.72In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisl da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionised painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. The impact of his art and personality continue to resonate to... -
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome by Livio Pestilli
RRP: €71.40€54.72Bernini 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... -
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art by Mary D. Garrard
RRP: €61.88€53.00Artemisia 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 by Hettie Judah
RRP: €15.46€10.23Step 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,... -
A New History of Western Art: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Koenraad Jonckheere
RRP: €65.45€54.37A 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... -
European Art of the Seventeenth Century by Rosa Giorgi
RRP: €26.17€23.26The 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 by Ben van Beneden 9781898519492
RRP: €33.32€22.84The 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... -
Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting by Norbert Wolf
RRP: €117.81€86.17The 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... -
Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley 9780198789734
RRP: €16.65€11.60Johannes 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... -
Complete Etchings of Rembrandt by Rembrandt 9780486834955
RRP: €35.64€23.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486834955Author RembrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Lives of Velazquez by Michael Jacobs 9781843681670
RRP: €13.08€8.81Collected 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... -
Fragonard: Painting out of Time by Satish Padiyar
RRP: €47.60€46.05At 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... -
Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age by Bart Cornelis
RRP: €17.85€16.72An 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,... -
Pasta For Nightingales: A 17th-century handbook of bird-care and folklore by Helen Macdonald
RRP: €17.79€11.64Apologies 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: €47.59€34.25Accompanying 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: €11.89€8.46Celebrated 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 Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried 9780691147017
RRP: €65.45€54.70This 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... -
It's True, It's True, It's True by Breach Theatre
RRP: €13.08€11.50Winner 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... -
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art by Babette Bohn
RRP: €58.25€51.92A 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... -
The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini: A Translation and Critical Edition, with Introduction and Commentary, by Franco Mormando by Domenico Bernini
RRP: €34.45€30.87Gian 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: €21.36€15.37Today 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... -
Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History by Caroline Dakers 9781787350465
RRP: €71.40€63.43Apologies 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 -
Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune by Wayne Franits
RRP: €77.35€57.88Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune is the first book in English dedicated to the entire artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706). It examines the... -
Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting by Catherine Whistler
RRP: €50.58€45.23An 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... -
Velazquez. the Complete Works by Jose Lopez-Rey
RRP: €71.40€65.69Apologies 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 by Gunter Hauspie 9789401449267
RRP: €32.73€21.29This 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... -
Rubens, Velazquez, and the King of Spain by Aneta Georgievska-Shine 9781138251649
RRP: €64.25€55.78This 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... -
British Baroque: Power & Illusion by Tabitha Barber 9781849766814
RRP: €29.75€24.69A 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... -
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting by Malcolm Bull 9780691138848
RRP: €33.32€25.42Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like... -
Rubens: Painter of Sketches by Friso Lammertse 9788484804710
RRP: €40.46€33.34Peter 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... -
Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons by Heather McPherson 9780271074078
RRP: €111.80€98.06In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England.Popular actors in Georgian London, such as David... -
Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection by Arnold Aronson 9781913645045
RRP: €19.64€12.83For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. Their elaborate stage designs were used for operas, festivals, and courtly performances across Europe: from their native... -
Guercino's Friar with a Gold Earring: Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Painter and Art Dealer by David M. Stone 9781785514159
RRP: €41.65€34.77Who 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... -
The Orléans Collection by Vanessa I. Schmid 9781911282280
RRP: €53.49€38.95This magnificent new volume presents works of art from the fabled collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (1674-1723), including masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt, bringing them together for the first... -
Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley 9780198789727
RRP: €32.71€23.42Johannes 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...