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A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall... -
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works. 40th Anniversary Edition by 9783836587860
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836587860Format HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbHWeight(grams) 156g -
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.19A dazzling piece of Italian history of the infamous family that become one of the most powerful in Europe, weaving its history with Renaissance greats from Leonardo da Vinci to GalileoAgainst the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and... -
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Works by Leonardo da Vinci 9780715324530
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.63Leonardo Da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived, responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Madonna of the Carnation and Vitruvian Man. Leonardo... -
Gloriana: Elizabeth I and the Art of Queenship by Linda Collins
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.61In a Reformation kingdom ill-used to queens, Elizabeth I needed a very particular image to hold her divided country together. The 'Cult of Gloriana' would elevate the queen to the status of a virgin goddess, aided by authors, musicians, and artists such... -
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth 9781803281261
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.19A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy.'... -
Leonardo da Vinci. The Graphic Work by Frank Zollner
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.15One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the... -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.08This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the... -
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 Joanna Cannon 9781857097160
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €43.66An exploration of a crucial turning point in Italian art, the early 1300s in the city of Siena In the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation. Painters, sculptors, and goldsmiths produced... -
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780199537198
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.78Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who... -
The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241239018
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.56Learn 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... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare 9780008323295
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.55A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful book. A... -
Michelangelo. Complete Works by 9783836586122
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €66.82Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this... -
Craftsman's Handbook by Cennio D'Andrea Cennini 9780486200545
RRP: €14.86Booksplease Price: €9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486200545Author Cennio D'Andrea CenniniFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Michelangelo. The Complete Paintings, Sculptures and Arch. by Frank Zoellner
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.15Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this... -
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €28.07'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world;... -
Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East Susan Dackerman 9780691250441
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €40.06An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DurerAlbrecht Durer's depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images. This confusion arises from the assumption that the artist... -
Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels by Toby Ferris
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.17Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist's work, and a moving and intimate... -
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England Elizabeth Cleland 9781588396921
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.55A fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors, revealing the dynasty's influence on the arts in Renaissance England and beyond Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs changed England indelibly, using the visual... -
Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master by H. Anna Suh
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.49Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man... -
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.58A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and... -
Michelangelo. The Graphic Work by Thomas Popper 9783836537193
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.90Very few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). The nickname il divino ("the divine one") has been applied to him since the 1530s right through to today: his achievements as a sculptor,... -
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance Dr Ross King 9781784709372
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.76'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally... -
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it Alice Procter 9781788402453
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.77"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times ... -
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King 9780762470631
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €30.04The most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence -- with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches -- is now available in a practical and elegant paperback format. From the paintings on... -
Fra Angelico by Stephan Beissel 9781646996667
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €43.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646996667Author Stephan BeisselFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited -
The Wolf Hall Picture Book by Hilary Mantel
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.17A photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy 'At the very beginning of the twentieth century, Zola said, ''In my view you cannot claim to have... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.16A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful book. A... -
Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire by Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez
RRP: €94.00Booksplease Price: €80.85Philip 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... -
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive Russ Ramsey 9780310155577
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €15.82Beyond a mere introduction to great art, Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart is about loving to learn what art has to teach us about the wonder and struggle of being alive.Did you know that:Vincent van Gogh's attempt to start an artist's colony with Paul Gauguin... -
Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 by Scott Nethersole 9781857095258
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.44Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for... -
Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater 9780199535071
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.51'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and... -
King and Collector: Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship by Siobhan Clarke
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.98'Packed with absorbing detail and brilliant insights ... I was gripped from the first paragraph.' - Alison Weir No English king is as well-known to us as Henry VIII - famous for his six marriages, for dissolving the monasteries and for the ruthless... -
Bruegel by Rainer Hagen
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €13.34The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, both notable for their... -
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.76'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A... -
Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine A. Johnson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.47Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental marble statue of David. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would... -
Piero della Francesca by Anna Maria Maetzke
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.34A guide to one of the greatest artists of all time; compact and up to date. These pages are intended as a compact up-to-date guide for readers wishing to find out more about one of the greatest artistic geniuses of all times, an artist epitomising the... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Rosalind Ormiston 9780754823261
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.68This comprehensive new book is an essential volume for anyone who wants to learn more about Leonardo and to survey his greatest works in one beautifully illustrated collection. The first part contains a detailed exploration of Leonardo's life. It... -
Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England Christina J Faraday 9781913107376
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €41.27A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed "lively." This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture-from portraits to funeral monuments, book... -
Pop Art by Klaus Honnef
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €13.93Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on...