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The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari by David J. Cast
RRP: $174.15$152.58The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on... -
Women's Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe: Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany by Adelina Modesti
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria... -
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past by Robert Wellington
RRP: $61.91$53.93Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their... -
Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire by Eugenia Paulicelli
RRP: $61.91$53.93The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in... -
Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art: Essays on Comedy as Social Vision by David R. Smith
RRP: $64.49$56.12Dwelling on the rich interconnections between parody and festivity in humanist thought and popular culture alike, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as it was conceived of in early modern art. The... -
The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Art of Travel by Elisabeth A. Fraser
RRP: $154.80$133.66For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepots of the Mediterranean, these go-betweens forged intercultural connections even as they negotiated and... -
Drawing Relationships in Northern Italian Renaissance Art: Patronage and Theories of Invention by Giancarla Periti
RRP: $174.15$151.81Vasari'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... -
Sebastiano del Piombo and the World of Spanish Rome by Piers Baker-Bates
RRP: $51.59$45.23Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the High Renaissance, notably Michelangelo and Raphael. After the death of Raphael and the departure of Michelangelo from Rome, Sebastiano became the... -
Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo: "Silver and Gold, Painting and Bronze..." by Aldo Galli
RRP: $37.41$25.54The volume, starting from the celebrated and fascinating Portrait of a Lady from the Poldi Pezzoli museum in Milan, one of the greatest masterpieces of Florentine portraiture from the latter half of the 15th century, investigates the art of the Pollaiolo... -
Fluctuating Alliances: Art, politics, and diplomacy in the Modern era by Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira
RRP: $48.38$43.74What was the role of art in the context of rapidly changing political alliances of the early modern period? The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume explore this question from the perspectives of "War and Peace," "Jesuits and... -
Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526-1658 by Valerie Gonzalez
RRP: $174.15$151.81The 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... -
Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries by Sally Anne Hickson
RRP: $69.65$60.46Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female... -
The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo: Duchess of Florence and Siena by Konrad Eisenbichler
RRP: $69.65$60.46Eleonora di Toledo was a powerful and influential woman who, over the course of nearly a quarter century (1539-62), contributed profoundly to the cultural flowering of ducal Florence. Her patronage of some of the leading artists of the time, her support... -
Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum by Dr. Maia Wellington Gahtan
RRP: $69.65$60.46Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum offers the first dedicated and comprehensive study of Vasari's original contributions to the making of museums, addressing the subject from the full range of aspects - collecting, installation,... -
Rethinking the High Renaissance: The Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome by Jill Burke
RRP: $69.65$60.98The perception that the early sixteenth century saw a culmination of the Renaissance classical revival - only to degrade into mannerism shortly after Raphael's death in 1520 - has been extremely tenacious; but many scholars agree that this tidy narrative... -
Übersetzungsfragen: Eine Neubewertung der Begriffe ‚Renaissance‘, ,Antik‘ und ‚Klassisch‘ in der Kunstgeschichte Maria Fabricius Hansen 9783422802520
RRP: $19.35$16.45Erwin Panofskys Behauptungen in Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art (1960), dass sich in der Kunst und Architektur der Epoche ein neues Geschichtsbewusstsein und eine Suche nach einem "all'antica"-Idiom zeigt, werden auch heute noch regelmäßig... -
Eufrasia Burlamacchi Loretta Vandi 9781848226784
RRP: $45.15$38.38The first monograph entirely devoted to the illuminated manuscripts of Sister Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1478-1548), this book demonstrates that her artistry should not be confined to painting or sculpture alone. Within the convent walls of San Domenico in... -
Bad und Akt: Studien zu Badedarstellungen der Frühen Neuzeit Jan-David Mentzel 9783422988750
RRP: $53.54$45.51Physical cleansing is an anthropological constant. The bath serves hygienic as well as ritual purposes and can also be related to spiritual healing in a figurative sense. Above all, however, it relates to the body in need of care, which must be... -
Animal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400–1550 Jodi Cranston 9780271097633
RRP: $108.30$92.05Animal Sightings challenges two common ideas about the depiction of animals in early modern European court art: first, that the human figure relegated animals to peripheral and often symbolic roles, both compositionally and conceptually, and second, that... -
Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750: Uncovering the Female Presence Tracy Cooper 9789048559718
RRP: $165.12$140.35This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The collection represents the first fruits of an ongoing research program...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $165.12$140.35Subtotal: -
Bilder der Alterität – Alterität der Bilder: Zum transkulturellen Potenzial von Bildern in Übersetzungsprozessen zwischen Neuspanien und Europa im 16. Jahrhundert Julia Kloss-Weber 9783111294285
RRP: $81.27$69.08Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen Wandmalereien, Skulpturen, Bilderhandschriften sowie Körperbilder des 16. Jahrhunderts in Mexiko. Julia Kloss-Weber analysiert, inwiefern viele der im Rahmen der Neuspanien-Mission entstandenen Bilder Alterität,...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $81.27$69.08Subtotal: -
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 Joanna Cannon 9781857097160
RRP: $51.60$43.33An 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... -
Venice and the Ottoman Empire: A Tale of Art, Culture, and Exchange Stefano Carboni 9780847838790
RRP: $64.50$54.83From the early Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century, Venice held a central position in the global trade network. This book explores how artistic and cultural ideas originating in the Ottoman Empire arrived in Venice and were reinterpreted... -
Jacopo Bassano: Renaissance Painter of Venetian Country Life Luisa Attardi 9780300278736
RRP: $58.05$49.34This publication presents a new perspective on Jacopo Bassano (c. 1515–1592) and the remarkable success of his workshop. Bassano, although widely appreciated in his lifetime, was later overshadowed by the immense fame of the Venetian masters Titian,... -
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity Jill Burke 9781788166676
RRP: $15.47$10.87*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor's Pick* 'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT 'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'Highlights a rich...