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Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth 9781803281261
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.37A 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.65One 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... -
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 Joanna Cannon 9781857097160
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.73An 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 Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.58A 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... -
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace 9780691195490
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were... -
Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine A. Johnson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.02Botticelli, 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... -
The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241239018
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.83Learn 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... -
Botticelli by Barbara Deimling
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.89With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro Botticelli (1444/45-1510) was well placed for fame. After his death, however, his work was eclipsed for... -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.25This 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... -
Art and its Global Histories: A Reader by Diana Newall
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.27The 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... -
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99'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... -
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.40FROM 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... -
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.39'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;... -
The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art by Malcolm Bull
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.03Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. In the midst of Christian Europe, artists began to decorate luxury goods with scandalous stories from classical mythology, and... -
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Works by Leonardo da Vinci 9780715324530
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.13Leonardo 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... -
Northern Renaissance Art by Susie Nash 9780192842695
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £17.74This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from... -
Bosch by Walter Bosing
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.89As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling content has captivated not only art historians, but also... -
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England Elizabeth Cleland 9781588396921
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.73A 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... -
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.10A 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... -
Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater 9780199535071
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.71'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... -
Michelangelo. The Graphic Work by Thomas Popper
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.84Very 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.77'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... -
Vermeer by Norbert Schneider
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.89Though numbering just 35 known works, the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York Times best seller, a film starring Scarlett Johansson,... -
Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum Timothy Wilson 9781910807163
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £41.15This book is the culmination of nearly thirty years' work in caring for, studying, and developing the collections in this Museum by Timothy Wilson, long-time Keeper of Western Art. Wilson is well-known as a specialist in the study of European Renaissance... -
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it Alice Procter 9781788402453
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.25"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 ... -
Fra Angelico by Stephan Beissel 9781646996667
Booksplease Price: £36.20Apologies 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 -
A New History of Italian Renaissance Art by Stephen J. Campbell 9780500239759
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £47.65Campbell and Cole, respected teachers and active researchers, draw on traditional and current scholarship to present complex interpretations in this new edition of their engaging account of Italian Renaissance art. The book's unique decade-by-decade... -
The Wolf Hall Picture Book by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.35A 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... -
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780199537198
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.40Packed 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... -
Centuries Of Childhood by Philippe Aries
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.96In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to... -
Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 by Scott Nethersole 9781857095258
Booksplease Price: £20.41Museum 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... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Rosalind Ormiston 9780754823261
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56This 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... -
Pre-Raphaelites by Heather Birchall
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.68Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincere, and naturalistic approach. Founded by William Holman Hunt, John... -
Bruegel by Rainer Hagen
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.89The 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... -
Piero della Francesca by Anna Maria Maetzke
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.78A 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... -
Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England Christina J Faraday 9781913107376
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.12A 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: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.74Peaking 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... -
The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.71'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a lesson to us' Nick Lezard, GuardianA new departure in... -
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) by Walter Pater 9781962572118
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962572118Author Walter PaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity by Jill Burke 9781788166669
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.24*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor's Pick* 'A total eye-opener, I loved it' Nuala McGovern 'You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' Maggie O'Farrell 'Terrific .....