Renaissance

A radical new perspective on the dynamics of urban life in Renaissance Italy The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations...

The 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,...

Innovation, 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...

Influenced 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...

Pieter Brugel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels argues that many of the hybrid falling angels are carefully composed of naturalia and artificialia, as they were collected in art and curiosity cabinets of the time. Bruegel's much noted emulation of...

Praised by Albrecht Du rer as being "the best in painting," Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430-1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398819252Author Leonardo da VinciImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday context for the exchange of objects and the meaning of demand in the lives of individuals in the Renaissance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780789320803Author Stephen FarthingFormat HardbackPage Count 14Imprint Universe PublishingPublisher Universe Publishing

Today 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...

In Playful Pictures, Chriscinda Henry explores the rise of private art collection in Renaissance Venice as a diporto, or pastime, practiced within a kaleidoscopic matrix of domestic leisure that encompassed the recitation of poetry and tales, games,...

The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture, Household Servants and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130000Author Mitchell B. MerbackFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

A fascinating look at how Elizabethan England was transformed by its interactions with cultures from around the world Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this revelatory study sheds light on how the nation's growing...

This is a fascinating volume that uses illustrated manuscripts to gain a unique insight into the gardens of the Renaissance. Whether part of a grand villa or an extension of a common kitchen, gardens in the Renaissance were planted and treasured in all...

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977678Author Marilyn Aronberg LavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 276g

Art & War in the Renaissance, published on the occasion of a major traveling exhibition, presents distinctive arms and armor within the rich context of an important tapestry series to highlight the beauty of Renaissance Europe's war culture.This...

During the fourteenth century in Western Europe, there was a growing interest in imitating the practices of a group of hermits known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Laypeople and religious alike learned about their rituals not only through readings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905375400Author Jeremy WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 2Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 2608g

Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land), first published in 1486, is one of the seminal books of early printing and is especially renowned for the originality of its woodcuts. In Picturing Experience in the...

Francisco de Hollanda completed Da pintura antigua in 1548, eight years after the young Portuguese humanist, painter, and architect had spent two years in Italy. Book I is the first Portuguese treatise on the theory and practice of painting. In contrast...

Born into the most influential artistic family in Venice, he received his training in the studio of his father, Jacopo, along with his brother, Gentile, and through a long and fruitful career played a leading role in advancing the stylistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472068906Author Charles R. MackFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472098903Author Charles R. MackFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Guido Guerzoni presents the results of fifteen years of research into one of the more hotly debated topics among historians of art and of economics: the history of art markets. Dedicating equal attention to current thought in the fields of economics,...

Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht D rer, Shira...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612481852Author Susan B. PuettFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Truman State University PressPublisher Truman State University PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931112437Author A. Lawrence JenkensFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Truman State University PressPublisher Truman State University...

In the summer of 1648, yellow fever appeared for the first time on the Yucatan Peninsula, claiming the lives of roughly one-third of the population. To combat this epidemic, Spanish colonial authorities carried a miracle-working Marian icon in procession...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686807Author Gianfranco SodomaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the "new poetry" of Renaissance...

From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with actual and imaginary green spaces. This volume examines how and why...

Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that...

Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is one of Rembrandt's most compositionally complex and visually beautiful works. This book gives a full overview of the...

A revisionist history of the early life and career of Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini Widely recognized as one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Bellini is revered for his mastery of color, atmosphere and light. However,...

The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as 'Il Furioso' because of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: l...

Leonardo's fame is bound up in great works whose background is obscure. There is theMona Lisa, for which we do not know the exact year of commencement,The Last Supper, whose state of conservation has always given rise to particular concern, and theBattle...

The first English translation of Erwin Panofsky's long-lost work on MichelangeloIn 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was rediscovered in a safe in Munich, in the basement of the Central Institute for Art History. Hidden for...

The first book to explore the role of images in philosophical thought and teaching in the early modern period Delving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth...