Renaissance

Bringing 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'...

Focusing 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...

Emphasizing 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...

Materials 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...

From 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...

Apologies 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

The 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 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...

Celebrated 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...

Directing 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...

Shedding 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248066Author David Alan BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

In 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...

This 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...

Richly 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...

This 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...

This 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...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354609Author Ana DebenedettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 670g

Apologies 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

Ramie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend - the two of them exchanged...

A 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...

Richly 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439189245Author Toby LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

Apologies 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)...

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646995271Author Joseph Archer CroweFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780642334251Author Ron RadfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint National Gallery of AustraliaPublisher National Gallery of Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188661067Author Peter GillgrenFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Nordic Academic PressPublisher Nordic Academic PressWeight(grams) 648g

Published in 1979: This book is about the History of the work of painter and architect, Raffaello around the Renaissance era.Book InformationISBN 9780367191313Author Quatremere de QuincyFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor &...

Evelyn Karet's in-depth study of the Antonio II Badile Album - the earliest known example of an art collection pasted onto the pages of a book - is both focused and broad in its appeal to those interested in the early modern era. The provenance of the...

Focusing on what he calls 'the performative gaze', the author explores the artistic world of the Urbino painter Federico Barocci (1535-1612) in the context of Renaissance culture. Through analysis of Barocci's works, Gillgren also sheds new light on...

Professor White's work on late medieval and Renaissance Italian art needs no introduction. His early articles on Renaissance perspective led on to a book, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space, which remains the standard work on the subject. His...

This volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe?Book InformationISBN 9781474482721Author Jose R. Jouve MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University...

Many studies have shown that images - their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses - were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it affects...

During the nineteenth century, Albrecht Dürer’s art, piety, and personal character were held up as models to inspire contemporary artists and—it was hoped—to return Germany to international artistic eminence. In this book, Jeffrey Chipps Smith explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991860Author Emile GebhartFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 216g

Michelangelo's genius is revealed as never before by the man who became Michelangelo's last apprentice- an American artist and art historian whose family helped carve Mount Rushmore. Many believe Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the...