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  • Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings by Vaughan Hart 9780300141498

    Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings by Vaughan Hart 9780300141498

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    Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He...
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  • Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith by Russ Ramsey

    Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith by Russ Ramsey

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310129721Author Russ RamseyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 139g
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  • Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works by Jurgen Muller

    Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works by Jurgen Muller

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    The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba's brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands, and the palpable effects of the Inquisition. To this day,...
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  • Creation: Art from the Beginning by John-Paul Stonard

    Creation: Art from the Beginning by John-Paul Stonard

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    **SELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES** 'Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness' LITERARY REVIEW 'A...
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  • Art of Renaissance Florence: A City and Its Legacy by Scott Nethersole

    Art of Renaissance Florence: A City and Its Legacy by Scott Nethersole

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786273420Author Scott NethersoleFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing
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  • Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction by Richard Verdi 9781789141474

    Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction by Richard Verdi 9781789141474

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    Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably the greatest of all painters of that school. Yet Poussin's reputation has been founded more on the intellectual and philosophical qualities of his art than its sheer...
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  • Still Life: Timeless Beauty Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 9783775751148

    Still Life: Timeless Beauty Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 9783775751148

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    They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, floral arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments and scientific instruments. Magical things testify to exuberant...
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  • Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Updated Edition) Julian Barnes 9781787332898

    Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Updated Edition) Julian Barnes 9781787332898

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    The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation...
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  • The Renaissance Complete by Margaret Aston

    The Renaissance Complete by Margaret Aston

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    No period has been more discussed, dissected and argued over than the Renaissance, and every age has reconstructed it in its own image. Today's emphasis is on its complexity - the way ideas, politics, religion, society, art and science depended upon and...
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  • Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture Ann Marie Borys 9780367433277

    Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture Ann Marie Borys 9780367433277

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    The first English-language overview of the contributions to Renaissance architectural culture of northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616), this book introduces Anglophone architects and historians to a little-known figure from a period...
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  • Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master by H. Anna Suh

    Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master by H. Anna Suh

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    Leonardo'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...
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl

    Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl

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    Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the real story behind his elusive masterpieces and...
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  • The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance Emma Capron 9781857096941

    The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance Emma Capron 9781857096941

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    Quinten Massys' An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess') is one of the Renaissance's most famous faces. In a fresh review of the iconic image, this book unveils the painting's original context: its status as a pioneering work of satirical art, its debt to...
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  • Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling by Ross King

    Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling by Ross King

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    In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet,...
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  • Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King 9780762470631

    Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King 9780762470631

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    The 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...
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  • Botticelli by Frank Zollner

    Botticelli by Frank Zollner

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    Botticelli is one of the most admired artists of the Renaissance period and his seductive Venus and graceful Primavera are among the world's most recognisable works of art. This catalogue raisonne of Botticelli's paintings offers more than two hundred...
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  • Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting by Mr Martin Kemp 9780198749905

    Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting by Mr Martin Kemp 9780198749905

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    Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts...
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  • Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King

    Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King

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    Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or most of the works from 28 of the city's other magnificent museums and churches. The research and text are by...
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  • Art in Renaissance Italy, 4th edition by John T. Paoletti

    Art in Renaissance Italy, 4th edition by John T. Paoletti

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856697972Author John T PaolettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 10g
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  • Leonardo by Frank Zollner

    Leonardo by Frank Zollner

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    Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a mastermind and innovator who anticipated some of the greatest...
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  • Strolling through Florence: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City by Mario Erasmo 9781780762142

    Strolling through Florence: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City by Mario Erasmo 9781780762142

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    To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city. From its establishment by Julius Caesar in the first century BC, through its Golden Age at the epicentre of the Italian Renaissance, to its position as an...
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  • Michelangelo Gilles Neret 9783836530347

    Michelangelo Gilles Neret 9783836530347

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    Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit,...
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  • Holbein: His Life and Works in 500 Images: An illustrated exploration of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of his paintings and drawings by Rosalind Ormiston 9780754835288

    Holbein: His Life and Works in 500 Images: An illustrated exploration of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of his paintings and drawings by Rosalind Ormiston 9780754835288

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    Hans Holbein the Younger's life is discovered through his artworks, his family, his patrons and the people who met him. Born into a family of talented artists, Holbein learnt to be a draughtsman, a painter, a portraitist, and a designer for woodcuts...
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  • Michelangelo: A Life on Paper by Leonard Barkan 9780691147666

    Michelangelo: A Life on Paper by Leonard Barkan 9780691147666

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    Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Piet, and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely...
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  • The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603 Roy Strong 9780300260595

    The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603 Roy Strong 9780300260595

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    The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture Written for the general reader, Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture synthesizes scholarship and research on this subject into a concise...
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  • Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare 9780008323295

    Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare 9780008323295

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    A 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...
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  • European Art and the Wider World 1350-1550 by Kathleen Christian 9781526122902

    European Art and the Wider World 1350-1550 by Kathleen Christian 9781526122902

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    Inspired by recent approaches to the field, the book reexamines the field of Renaissance art history by exploring the art of this era in the light of global connections. It considers the movement of objects, ideas and technologies and its significance...
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  • The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative by David Ekserdjian

    The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative by David Ekserdjian

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    The comprehensive study of the Italian Renaissance altarpiece from the 13th to the early 17th century The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive and remarkable art forms of the Renaissance period. It is difficult to imagine an artist of the...
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  • Raphael David Ekserdjian 9781857096583

    Raphael David Ekserdjian 9781857096583

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    A definitive overview of one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian Renaissance Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483-1520) is unarguably the artist who has been most widely and consistently admired across the...
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  • Bosch: Masters of Art by Brad Finger

    Bosch: Masters of Art by Brad Finger

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    Although Bosch's known works amount to no more than two dozen paintings and a handful of drawings, the artist had an enormous impact on religious imagery during his lifetime and for centuries afterward. His enigmatic and mind-bending depictions of...
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  • The Italian Paintings Before 1400 Dillian Gordon 9781857094824

    The Italian Paintings Before 1400 Dillian Gordon 9781857094824

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    The National Gallery in London houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and the di Cione brothers. This completely updated catalogue of the collection is the first...
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  • Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140444605

    Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140444605

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    In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his...
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  • On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti

    On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti

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    Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles...
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  • Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

    Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

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    Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari...
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  • The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern 9781838955182

    The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern 9781838955182

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    'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul...
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  • Renaissance Theories of Vision John Shannon Hendrix 9781138245488

    Renaissance Theories of Vision John Shannon Hendrix 9781138245488

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    How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical...
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  • Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer by Nico Van Hout 9789464666786

    Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer by Nico Van Hout 9789464666786

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    Unique view of the ‘tronies’ in art from the Netherlands Our fascination for faces transcends eras and cultures. Turning Heads – Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer highlights a remarkable genre in painting to which little attention has so far been paid:...
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  • The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis 9780008313449 [USED COPY]

    The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis 9780008313449 [USED COPY]

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    In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over...
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  • The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis

    The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis

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    In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over...
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  • Penned and Painted: The Art & Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Lucy Freeman Sandler 9780712354363

    Penned and Painted: The Art & Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Lucy Freeman Sandler 9780712354363

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    The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the beginning, the word for 'book'-sefer in Hebrew, biblia in Greek, and liber in Latin-was identified with...
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