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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven Nadler 9780691157306
RRP: $46.20$36.46In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was... -
Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France Katie Scott 9781606068632
RRP: $105.00$87.47Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not... -
Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great by Rosalind P. Blakesley
RRP: $94.50$71.40Catherine the Great's audacious power grab in 1762 marked a watershed in imperial Russian history. During a momentous 34-year reign, her rapacious vision and intellectual curiosity led to vast territorial expansion, cultural advancement, and civic,... -
Rubens: The Two Great Landscapes by Lucy Davis
RRP: $42.00$32.17A handsomely illustrated monograph that examines in depth Rubens's two greatest landscape paintings: A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning and The Rainbow Landscape. Painted as pendants, the pair of paintings have been in London since 1803. This... -
Baroque Influencers: Jesuits, Rubens, and the Arts of Persuasion Pierre Delsaerdt 9789464666311
RRP: $105.00$72.98In what ways did the Jesuits deploy the Baroque visual language of the time to persuade the public of their vision on humankind, religion and society? In this beautifully illustrated book, which includes numerous artworks by Peter Paul Rubens and others,... -
Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune by Wayne Franits
RRP: $136.50$102.14Godefridus 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... -
Rembrant's Jews by S. Nadler
RRP: $42.00$35.66There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his... -
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr
RRP: $42.00$25.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759864Author Jonathan HarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome . Reigl 9781606060414
RRP: $94.50$79.86Delivered three times between 1898 and 1902 and subsequently revised with an eye towards publication, Alois Riegl's lectures on the origins of Baroque art in Rome broke new ground in its field. This first English translation brings Riegl's compelling... -
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting by Malcolm Bull 9780691138848
RRP: $63.00$48.91Can 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... -
Pearls for the Crown: Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion by Mónica Domínguez Torres 9780271096810
RRP: $176.30$157.67In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimated racialized hierarchies and inequitable notions about humanity and nature that still hold sway today.When... -
Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor Carolina Brown 9789048562374
RRP: $258.30$247.49During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is... -
The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting Norbert Wolf 9783791377674
RRP: $84.00$60.46This beautifully illustrated, expansive overview of Dutch and Flemish art during the 17th century illuminates the creative achievements of one of the most important eras in western art. The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th... -
Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century by Jennifer Milam 9781644532331
RRP: $69.30$61.01This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. The event that gave rise to the collection was the 15th David Nichol Smith Seminar in... -
Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples: The Body of Naples by Alessandro Giardino 9781498563987
RRP: $178.50$156.47This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a... -
The Temple of Night at Schnau: Architecture, Music, and by John A Rice 9780871692580
$116.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871692580Author John A RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint American Philosophical SocietyPublisher American Philosophical SocietyWeight(grams) 626g -
Rococo Echo: Art, History and Historiography from Cochin to Coppola by Melissa Lee Hyde 9780729411585
$181.42Intermittently in and out of fashion, the persistence of the Rococo from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first is clear. From painting, print and photography, to furniture, fashion and film, the Rococo's diverse manifestations appear to defy... -
Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy by Christiane Hertel
RRP: $235.10$209.96Chinoiserie-the use of motifs, materials, and techniques considered "Chinese" in ceramics, furniture, interior design, and landscape architecture-has often been associated with courtly decadence and shallow escapism. In Siting China in Germany,... -
Vermeer and the Art of Love by Aneta Georgievska-Shine
RRP: $83.98$63.69Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the... -
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting by Jesse M. Locker
RRP: $73.50$62.10Hailed as one of the most influential and expressive painters of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-ca. 1656) has figured prominently in the art historical discourse of the past two decades. This attention to Artemisia, after many years... -
Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul by Unver Rustem 9780691181875
RRP: $126.00$98.07A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the worldWith its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as... -
The Orléans Collection by Vanessa I. Schmid 9781911282280
RRP: $94.40$69.41This 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... -
Warm Flesh, Cold Marble: Canova, Thorvaldsen, and Their Critics by David Bindman
RRP: $89.25$75.62This brilliant book focuses on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the great Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his illustrious Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Rather than... -
Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age by Dror Wahrman
RRP: $93.43$64.53For 300 years, a unique and complex artistic puzzle has been hidden, the solution of which reveals an extraordinary critique of what can be described as the first modern media revolution. The mind behind this puzzle was a Dutch/British still-life painter... -
Rembrandt & Saskia: Love and Marriage in the Dutch Golden Age by Marlies Stoter
$47.75Tells the story of Rembrandt and his marriage to Saskia, the love of his life. Paintings, drawings, etchings, objects, letters and poems tell the tale of a society marriage in 17th century Holland. Accompanies a travelling exhibition in The Netherlands... -
The Throne of the Great Mogul in Dresden: The Ultimate Artwork of the Baroque by Dror Wahrman 9780300251937
RRP: $63.00$52.19A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth century The Throne of the Great Mogul (1701-8) is a unique work of European decorative art: an intricate miniature of the court of the... -
The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic by Angela Vanhaelen 9780271050614
RRP: $193.10$172.33In describing the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, Johan Huizinga said, "Paintings could be found everywhere . . . everywhere except in churches." Although pictures were ubiquitous in the Dutch world, the official religion expressed a fundamental... -
The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment by Celina Fox
RRP: $105.00$92.51During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms-not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary... -
Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons by Heather McPherson 9780271074078
RRP: $197.30$175.98In 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... -
Bernini's Michelangelo by Carolina Mangone
RRP: $115.50$98.05A novel exploration of the threads of continuity, rivalry, and self-conscious borrowing that connect the Baroque innovator with his Renaissance paragon Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), like all ambitious artists, imitated eminent predecessors. What set... -
Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis by Amanda Wunder 9780271076645
RRP: $186.80$166.87Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and... -
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... -
Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World Samuel Van Hoogstraten 9781606066676
RRP: $136.50$114.98A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands. The only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in the... -
Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency, Identity Andrea Pearson 9781138259447
RRP: $113.38$98.43As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis... -
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 -... -
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... -
Vertiginous Mirrors: The Animation of the Visual Image and Early Modern Travel by Rose Marie San Juan 9780719084812
RRP: $178.50$157.31In early modern Europe, the visual image began to move, not only as it traveled across great distances but also due to the introduction of innovative visual formats that produced animation within the image itself. This book traces the arduous journeys of... -
Modes of Knowing: Resources from the Baroque by John Law 9780993144981
RRP: $37.80$27.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993144981Author John LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Mattering PressPublisher Mattering Press -
François Boucher: Sociability, Mondanité and the Academy in the Age of Louis XV by Leda Cosentino 9780993658839
RRP: $92.30$63.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993658839Author Leda CosentinoFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Assembly HousePublisher Assembly House -
Caravaggio as a Modernist: What is Modernism? by Tzach Ben Josef 9789659214747
RRP: $31.48$26.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789659214747Author Tzach Ben JosefFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Center of Interreligious PeacePublisher Center of Interreligious PeaceWeight(grams)...