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Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum Timothy Wilson 9781910807163
RRP: $77.40$53.47This book is the culmination of nearly thirty years' work in caring for, studying, and developing the collections in this Museum by Timothy Wilson, long-time Keeper of Western Art. Wilson is well-known as a specialist in the study of European Renaissance... -
Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman: Catalogue Raisonne by Matthijs Ilsink
RRP: $129.00$110.63Compiled by members of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and published on the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch's death, this is the definitive new catalogue of all of Bosch's extant paintings and drawings. His mastery and genius have been... -
Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley 9780198789727
RRP: $37.40$26.68Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We... -
The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century by Noam Andrews
RRP: $52.89$35.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046640Author Noam AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece Leah Kharibian 9781857096606
RRP: $12.90$11.09An innovative look at the creation of Leonardo's The Virgin of the Rocks This concise but innovative book, published to accompany an immersive digital exhibition at the National Gallery, London, focuses on a single Leonardo painting, and one of the... -
Yellow: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691198255
RRP: $45.15$34.68From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau-a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue,... -
Becoming Leonardo by Mike Lankford
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197159Author Mike LankfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Renaissance Realm: The Art of Olga Suvorova by Michael Fishel
RRP: $29.66$24.69Russian painter Olga Suvorova is internationally known for her brilliant reinterpretations of English Pre-Rafaelite art, described by critic Viktoriya Syslova as "amazingly modern in their exquisite theatricality." Both exuberant and... -
Carnivals and Dreams: Pieter Breugel and the History of the Imagination: Monochrome Edition by Louise S. Milne 9780955523083
$37.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955523083Author Louise S. MilneFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Mutus LiberPublisher Mutus LiberWeight(grams) 857g -
Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel by Lee Hendrix 9781606066584
RRP: $96.75$60.76Now back in print, "the ultimate book-lover's gift book" (Los Angeles Times) In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of... -
Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life - Bollingen Series XXXV: 57 by Joseph Leo Koerner 9780691172286
RRP: $77.40$59.88In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its... -
Botticelli Past and Present by Ana Debenedetti 9781787354609
RRP: $36.11$31.82Apologies 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 -
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Discovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi
RRP: $29.66$23.65Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project:... -
Giovanni Bellini: The Art of Contemplation Johannes Grave 9783791383972
RRP: $122.55$86.64Following the arc of Bellini's career, from his early devotional paintings to his later, occasionally secular works, this book offers an in-depth appreciation of the Venetian master who dominated the Early Renaissance. Featuring nearly every extant... -
Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images by Christopher D. Johnson
RRP: $42.57$37.47The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in... -
Painted Glories: The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence by Nicholas A. Eckstein
RRP: $70.95$60.23In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Florence unexpectedly defeated Milanese forces near the town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. Nicholas A. Eckstein reveals the impact of this celebrated victory on Florentine public life and how it could... -
Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture by David Young Kim
RRP: $70.95$55.35An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle... -
Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting by Catherine Whistler
RRP: $54.83$49.03An impressive overview of drawing in Venice, from the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo From the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo, drawing was an important part of artistic practice and was... -
Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna by Babette Bohn
RRP: $81.21$72.56Winner of the 2022 Prose Award (Art History & Criticism) from the Association of American PublishersThis groundbreaking book seeks to explain why women artists were far more numerous, diverse, and successful in early modern Bologna than elsewhere in... -
The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History by Anne Dunlop 9780674279162
RRP: $48.96$39.36With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For... -
Raphael, Painter in Rome: A Novel by Stephanie Storey
$19.32Another Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble, Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael! Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael,... -
The Dawn of Christian Art - In Panel Painings and Icons Thomas F. Mathews 9781606065099
RRP: $58.05$51.64Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the... -
The Renaissance of Etching Catherine Jenkins 9781588396495
RRP: $64.50$55.79The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries The etching of images on metal, originally used as a method for decorating armor, was first employed as a... -
Frame Work: Honour and Ornament in Italian Renaissance Art by Alison Wright
RRP: $74.18$63.60"My husband Jan finished me on 17 June 1439. . . . My age was 33 years." So speaks Margaret van Eyck from the frame of her portrait. This painted inscription honors its maker Jan van Eyck, even as it blurs the distinction between living subject and... -
Rubens's Great Landscape with a Tempest by Gerlinde Gruber
RRP: $38.64$25.52The Great Landscape with a Tempest in Vienna is one of Peter Paul Rubens's largest and most dramatic landscapes. Starting from the far-reaching discoveries during the latest restoration, the volume provides a comprehensive insight into the process of... -
Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance Berthold Hub 9780367548940
RRP: $49.01$43.06The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between... -
Great Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer by Albrecht Durer 9780486434018
$10.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434018Author Albrecht DurerPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
A Victim of Anonymity: The Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $11.55$7.55Are there miscarriages of justice in art history? Neil MacGregor believes there are. However great an artist, if his name is lost he will not receive a fair verdict from posterity. No exhibition will be devoted to his work; no books will be written... -
Da Vinci: His Life and His Legacy by Catherine McGrew Jaime 9781453820964
RRP: $15.48$12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453820964Author Catherine McGrew JaimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Still Life Before Still Life by David Ekserdjian
RRP: $48.38$42.80A beautiful book that argues artists were fascinated by still life painting considerably earlier than previously thought This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life... -
Michelangelo & Sebastiano Matthias Wivel 9781857096095
RRP: $45.15$40.21The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 -1541). The... -
Drei Schnittbeucher: Three Austrian Master Tailor Books of the 16th Century by Katherine Barich 9780692472453
$65.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692472453Author Katherine BarichFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Nadel Und Faden Press LLCPublisher Nadel Und Faden Press LLCWeight(grams) 1334g -
Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel by Andrew Graham-Dixon 9781634502511
RRP: $29.66$18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634502511Author Andrew Graham-DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sistine Chapel - Paradise in Rome Ulrich Pfisterer 9781606065532
RRP: $28.37$24.45The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to... -
Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance by Mary Quinlan-McGrath 9780226421667
RRP: $27.09$26.20Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light... -
Isabella and Leonardo: The Artistic Relationship between Isabella d'Este and Leonardo da Vinci, 1500-1506 by Francis Ames-Lewis 9780300121247
RRP: $61.28$51.65Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the letters... -
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet for Kids: 3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group Sizes by Brendan P Kelso 9780998137643
$10.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998137643Author Brendan P KelsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Playing with PlaysPublisher Playing with PlaysWeight(grams) 113g -
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe Wolfram Koeppe 9781588396778
RRP: $64.50$56.82Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal courts of Europe At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in Making... -
The Culture of Bronze: Making and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture by Peta Motture
RRP: $45.15$35.89The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale-such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus-and more intimate statuettes and small-scale functional objects. Bronze, being both costly and luxurious,... -
European Art of the Fifteenth Century by Stefano Zuffi 9780892368310
RRP: $28.37$24.45Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still...