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Nature and the Arts in Early Modern Naples by Frank Fehrenbach 9783110599220
RRP: £60.00£53.43The literary, artistic, and scientific culture of early modern Naples is closely linked to the natural topography of the city, stretching from Iacopo Sannazaro's poetic evocation of the Campania landscape to Giambattista Vico's approach in which he... -
The Watson Gordon Lecture: Caravaggio and Cupid: Homage and Rivalry in Rome and Florence: 2016 by Helen Langdon 9781911054146
RRP: £7.95£5.58Caravaggio's astonishingly naturalistic and provocative Cupid Victorious hung in the palace of a famous family at the heart of seventeenth-century Rome. Helen Langdon explores how the artist, famed for his originality, created a balance between a ... -
Conundrum - Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series by Charissa Bremer-David 9781606064535
RRP: £16.99£14.61The whimsical imagery of four tapestries in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently on display at the Getty Center is perplexing. Created in France at the Beauvais manufactory between 1690 and 1730, these charming hangings,... -
Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard by Nebahat Avcioglu 9781472443656
RRP: £135.00£118.28For too long, the 'centre' of the Renaissance has been considered to be Rome and the art produced in, or inspired by it. This collection of essays dedicated to Deborah Howard brings together an impressive group of internationally recognised scholars of... -
Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650 by John R. Decker 9781472433671
RRP: £135.00£117.68Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: from paintings to prints to small sculptures, the art of the late Middle Ages and early modern period gave rise to disturbing scenes of violence. Many of these torture scenes recall Christ's... -
Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace by Stefanie Solum 9781409462033
RRP: £135.00£117.68Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici's impact on the visual world of her time comes to light in this book, the first full-length scholarly argument for a lay woman's contributions... -
Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Carol M. Richardson 9781405146401
RRP: £110.95£98.87Renaissance Art Reconsidered showcases the aesthetic principles and the workaday practices guiding daily life through these years of extraordinary human achievement. * A major new anthology, bringing to life the places, works, media, and issues that... -
The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Roberta J.M. Olson 9781405139557
RRP: £21.75£19.15Material culture is not static: objects are created, used and re-used, sometimes for centuries, and their lives interact with those of the people who made and used them. The essays in this book discuss the 'social lives' of objects in late-medieval and... -
The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice by Lorenzo G. Buonanno 9781032204673
RRP: £39.99£35.46This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice. Examining a wide range of sources—the era’s art-theoretical and devotional literature, guidebooks and travel diaries, and artworks in various... -
Hybridity in Early Modern Art by Ashley Elston 9781032060439
RRP: £39.99£35.06This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. The varied approaches in the volume to theories of hybridity reflect the increased presence in art historical scholarship of... -
Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint by Penny Howell Jolly 9781138270138
RRP: £53.99£46.87Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saint's widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint,... -
Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage by Katherine A. McIver 9781138276291
RRP: £53.99£46.87Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy, the essays in this volume recover those women - wives, widows, mistresses, the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature, rendered... -
Drawing Relationships in Northern Italian Renaissance Art: Patronage and Theories of Invention by Giancarla Periti 9781138272965
RRP: £53.99£46.87Vasari's celebration of the art of the central Italian cities of Florence, Rome and Venice, has long left in shadow the art of northern Italy. The economic and historical decline of the region compounded this effect with the dispersal of the treasures of... -
Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice: The Architecture of Santi Cosma e Damiano and its Decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo by Benjamin Paul 9781138272217
RRP: £49.99£43.90Decorated by Giovanni Buonconsiglio, Jacopo Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane, Sebastiano Ricci and Giambattista Tiepolo, the church of the former Benedictine female monastery Santi Cosma e Damiano occupies an outstanding position in Venice. The author of... -
Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art by Dr. Francesca Leoni 9781138270619
RRP: £51.99£45.19Dedicated to the topics of eroticism and sexuality in the visual production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world, this volume sheds light on the diverse socio-cultural milieus of erotic images, on the range of motivations that determined their... -
Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico by Monica Dominguez Torres 9781138251519
RRP: £39.99£35.46Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Monica Dominguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the 'conquest'... -
Reframing Albrecht Durer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700 by Andrea Bubenik 9781138247055
RRP: £49.99£43.50Focusing on the ways his art and persona were valued and criticized by writers, collectors, and artists subsequent to his death, this book examines the reception of the works of Albrecht Durer. Andrea Bubenik's analysis highlights the intensive and... -
The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities by Erin J. Campbell 9781138269613
RRP: £53.99£46.87Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, and on the other, the way in which particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the home, this volume offers... -
The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, C.1250-1750 by Christy Anderson 9780719090608
RRP: £90.00£64.91Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of both the inherent qualities of materials and the forces of culture that used, refined and produced them. The... -
The Sack of Rome, 1527 by André Chastel 9780691252230
RRP: £38.00£30.01From a leading art historian of Renaissance Italy, a compelling account of the artistic and cultural impact of the sack of sixteenth-century RomeIn this illustrated account of the sack of Rome as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, André Chastel reveals... -
Botticelli Past and Present by Ana Debenedetti 9781787354616
RRP: £50.00£44.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354616Author Ana DebenedettiFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 810g -
Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526-1658 by Valerie Gonzalez 9781138564879
RRP: £39.99£35.06The first specialized critical-aesthetic study to be published on the concept of hybridity in early Mughal painting, this book investigates the workings of the diverse creative forces that led to the formation of a unique Mughal pictorial language... -
The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Images of Iberia by Piers Baker-Bates 9781138548152
RRP: £45.99£40.53The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain's formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, spreading agents and culture across Europe and the wider world. Yet in Italy they encountered another... -
Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy: The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration by Minou Schraven 9781138548145
RRP: £47.99£42.21Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with maintaining decorum, papal Masters of Ceremonies supervised all aspects of the... -
The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600-2010 by Julia Skelly 9781138548077
RRP: £43.99£38.84Directing unprecedented attention to how the idea of 'excess' has been used by both producers and consumers of visual and material culture, this collection examines the discursive construction of excess in relation to art, material goods and people in... -
The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris: Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria by Susan Maxwell 9781138376380
RRP: £47.99£41.81Shedding new light on the relatively unknown art of the Wittelsbach dukes's sixteenth-century court, The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris represents the first monograph to focus on this Italian-trained Netherlandish artist. The volume incorporates... -
Overshadowed (Spanish edition): Leonardo da Vinci and Bernardino Luini by David Alan Brown 9788857248066
RRP: £30.00£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248066Author David Alan BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira -
Dosso Dossi: Paintings of Myth, Magic, and the Antique by Giancarlo Fiorenza 9780271032047
RRP: £86.95£77.74In Dosso Dossi: Paintings of Myth, Magic, and the Antique, Giancarlo Fiorenza draws on a wealth of rarely studied primary source material to present the work of the Ferrarese court artist Dosso Dossi in a new light. The artist, who worked mainly for Duke... -
Performing Conversion: Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations by Jose R. Jouve Martin 9781474482738
RRP: £20.99£19.25This book explores how theatrical practices shaped the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe. Each chapter focuses on a specific city or selection of cities including Venice, London, Mexico City, Madrid and Berne... -
Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier 9781118306079
RRP: £85.95£76.38Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth... -
The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified by Grazyna Jurkowlaniec 9780367539405
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations while broadening the geographic field of inquiry to Central Europe and the British Isles and considering... -
Michelangelo's Vatican Pieta and its Afterlives by Lisa M. Rafanelli 9780367859886
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo's well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pieta, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time. Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pieta and the active role... -
Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art by Henri de Riedmatten 9783111072272
RRP: £44.50£39.97The aim of this publication is to clarify the relationships between material restoration and politics in Italian Renaissance art. The focus of this research is on the question of origin as a foothold for political, patrimonial, and cultural identity... -
The Ottoman Renaissance: A Reconsideration of Early Modern Ottoman Art, 1413-1575 by Metin Mustafa 9781682060230
RRP: £19.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682060230Author Metin MustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 331Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 514g -
Anachronic Renaissance by Alexander Nagel 9781942130345
RRP: £30.00£23.69A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance, examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance images and artifacts. In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound... -
Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier 9781118306116
RRP: £40.95£35.89Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth... -
Venetian Painting Matters, 1450-1750 by J Cranston 9782503535265
£96.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503535265Author J CranstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 771g -
Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa: New Perspectives by Jean-Pierre Isbouts (Ed )
RRP: £34.95£29.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986393037Author Jean-Pierre Isbouts (Ed )Format PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Fielding University PressPublisher Fielding University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Seven Ancient Wonders in the Early Modern World by Inmaculada Rodriguez-Moya
RRP: £39.99£35.06This monograph is a study of the artistic production that formed part of the various lists of the Seven Wonders that lasted beyond Antiquity and were recovered during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The study focuses in depth on the way they were... -
Early Italian Art by Joseph Archer Crowe
£15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259206Author Archer Joseph CroweFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited