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Tapestries by Rosita Sheen
RRP: £7.99£6.91Tapestries have been an enigmatic form of artwork for hundreds of years, with the intricate symbolism of their woven narratives still fascinating viewers today. Unicorns and fantastic beasts rub shoulders with well-heeled aristocrats; famous biblical and... -
Locating Renaissance Art by Carol M. Richardson 9780300121889 [USED COPY]
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Locating Renaissance Art by Carol M. Richardson 9780300121889
RRP: £25.00£21.92Renaissance art history is traditionally identified with Italian centers of production, and Florence in particular. Instead, this book explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centers and artists and the trade in works of art. It also... -
Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master by H. Anna Suh 9781579129460 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£3.37Leonardo'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... -
Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master by H. Anna Suh
RRP: £17.99£15.69Leonardo'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... -
Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work by Michael Cole 9780691198323
RRP: £60.00£47.70The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the RenaissanceSofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535-1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house... -
Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci; With a Selection of Documents Relating to his Career as an Artist by Leonardo da Vinci 9780300090956
RRP: £18.99£16.18Leonardo's writings on painting-among the most remarkable from any era-were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from... -
The Wonders of Florence by Dario Cestaro 9788831719216
RRP: £20.00£13.58The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in... -
Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man by James R. Banker
RRP: £28.99£20.68Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with... -
Michaelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters and Art of the Great Master by Carolyn Vaughan
RRP: £15.99£12.77Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, many of which went on to become some of the most celebrated masterpieces of all-time.Organized... -
Dosso's Fate - Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy . Ciammitti 9780892365050
RRP: £45.00£38.63Arising from the proceedings of two symposia, this text is composed of contributions by scholars who examine the social, intellectual and historical contexts of the work of the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni di Lutero, who used the name Dosso.Book... -
Time to Heal: Tales of a Country Doctor by Michael Dixon 9781911397762
RRP: £16.99£12.11Time to Heal tells the story of the colourful life of a country doctor towards the end of his career. In turn shocking, sad and funny, they describe a doctor who feels poorly served by the conventional medicine of his time and finds new ways to relieve... -
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to MLM's Emilia by Laura Kressly
RRP: £34.99£30.85This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative... -
Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History by Caroline Dakers 9781787350465
RRP: £60.00£53.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350465Author Caroline DakersFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1130g -
Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari
RRP: £3.00£2.49'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.'Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists .Introducing... -
Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources Carol M. Richardson (Open University) 9781405146418
RRP: £37.95£33.76Renaissance 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 Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence by Megan Holmes
RRP: £65.00£63.41In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around these "miraculous images" in the city and surrounding... -
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan Luke Syson 9781857094916
RRP: £40.00£35.99Leonardo da Vinci's reputation as an inventor and scientist, and the complexity of his creativity and personality, have sometimes almost overshadowed the importance of his aims and techniques as a painter. This catalogue focuses on a crucial period in... -
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts by Martin Kemp
RRP: £46.99£35.62The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a... -
Young Rembrandt An Van Camp 9781910807323
RRP: £25.00£17.98Young Rembrandt concentrates on the first ten years of the career of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). Born in Leiden, he trained there with Isaac van Swanenburg and in Amsterdam with Pieter Lastman. After a short stay in Amsterdam he returned to Leiden... -
Giorgione's Ambiguity by Tom Nichols
RRP: £17.95£13.32The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twenty-five works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art... -
Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen's Parish, 1593-1598 by Geoffrey Marsh
RRP: £30.00£26.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474479721Author Geoffrey MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Bellotto and Canaletto: Wonder and Light Bosena Anna Kowalczyk 9788836635566
RRP: £29.95£20.69This book reveals the extraordinary artistic relationship between Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768) and Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722-Warsaw 1780). This book reveals the extraordinary artistic relationship between Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768) and Bernardo... -
Carpaccio in Venice: A Guide by Patricia Fortini Brown
RRP: £17.50£12.01Tour the city of Venice through the panoramic paintings of one of its most celebrated chroniclers The lagoon city of Venice was home to some of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. Among them was Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1465-1525), whose... -
The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan
RRP: £9.99£7.11Beauty can be a gift...or a wicked temptation...So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in Renaissance Florence. He has a talent - not only can he see the beauty in everything, he can capture it, paint it. But while beauty can seduce you, and art can... -
Duccio to Leonardo: Renaissance Painting 1250-1500 Simona Di Nepi 9781857094213
RRP: £9.99£8.59This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallery's display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. Duccio to Leonardo focuses on Italian masterpieces made between 1250 and... -
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance Emma Capron 9781857096941
RRP: £16.99£14.61Quinten 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... -
Raphael and the Antique by Claudia La Malfa
RRP: £17.95£13.32The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman models - classical sculptures, reliefs... -
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence by Andrew Butterfield 9780691233086
RRP: £70.00£54.30A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacherAndrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his... -
Art of Renaissance Rome: Artists and Patrons in the Eternal City by John Marciari
£23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786270559Author John MarciariFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 820g -
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art by Noah Charney 9780393356366
RRP: £14.99£13.03An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the great masters-an extraordinary book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established... -
Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare
RRP: £16.95£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139470Author Philip HoareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light by Martin Kemp
RRP: £45.00£34.00Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a remarkable knowledge of the science of his era. His poems also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned... -
Rubens, Velazquez, and the King of Spain Aneta Georgievska-Shine 9781138251649
RRP: £53.99£46.87This study provides a new analysis of the pictorial ensemble of the Torre de la Parada, the hunting lodge of King Philip IV of Spain. Created in the late 1630s by a group of artists led by Peter Paul Rubens, this cycle of mythological imagery and hunting... -
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art Babette Bohn (Texas Christian University, USA) 9781444337266
RRP: £48.95£43.63A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history... -
Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art by Georges Didi-Huberman 9780271024721
RRP: £35.95£32.05When the French edition of Confronting Images appeared in 1990, it won immediate acclaim because of its far-reaching arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vasari and... -
Da Vinci Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci
RRP: £8.99£6.45A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest... -
Albrecht DüRer’s Material World by Edward H. Wouk
RRP: £25.00£18.32The painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery's outstanding Durer collection in over half a century. It offers a new... -
Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art by Patricia Lee Rubin
RRP: £55.00£47.29Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This... -
A New History of Western Art: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Koenraad Jonckheere
RRP: £55.00£45.69A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana...