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Gardens of the Renaissance . Kenne 9781606061435
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06This 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... -
Willem de Kooning - The Artist's Materials . Lake 9781606060216
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.65This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997),... -
Color Science and the Visual Arts - A Guide for Conservations, Curators, and the Curious Roy S. Berns 9781606064818
Booksplease Price: $66.54"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar." What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the... -
Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands at the J.Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren 9781606060148
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.05This is a lavishly illustrated survey of the J. Paul Getty's collection of illuminated manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands. During the Middle Ages, the region now occupied by Belgium and... -
Household Gods - Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome Alexandra Sofroniew 9781606064566
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.50Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines... -
Building the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca 9781606060063
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.54Some of the great and lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals, grand castles and palaces. While many of these edifices survive,... -
Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures - Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project by . Tolles 9780892365876
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $45.28A description of the design, experimental procedures and results of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project, which set out to identify and evaluate methods for the seismic protection of historical and... -
Railroad Vision - Photography, Travel, and Perception by Anne M. Lyden 9780892367269
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $51.17In 1830 the British actress Fanny Kemble described the sensation of riding in a train as "strange beyond description". This revolutionary new mode of transportation came into being at almost exactly... -
Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum - Abbreviations and Index by . Jaeger 9780892367931
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $85.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892367931Author . JaegerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty... -
Beasts Factual and Fantastic by Elizabeth Morrison 9780892368884
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.59'Beasts Factual and Fantastic' is the first in the Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that will draw on manuscript illuminations from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Often,... -
Paragons and Paragone - Van Eyck, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini . Preimesberger 9780892369645
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.04This title provides an intelligent and illuminating exploration of the rivalry that existed between the artists of the Renaissance & Baroque eras. The paragon - the notion of competition and rivalry... -
Renoir's Colors by Marie Selier 9781606060032
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.34This book helps children identify and explore colours through eight child-friendly paintings by the great Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Its engaging interactive format invites the... -
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater . Hart 9781606060377
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $51.17This is an exploration of Greek theatre as seen through its many depictions in classical art. "The Art of Ancient Greek Theater" addresses the vibrant imprint that ancient Greek tragedy and comedy... -
Gardens and Plants of the Getty Villa . Bowe 9781606060490
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.01This title provides a lavishly illustrated exploration of the stunning gardens at the Getty Villa This sumptuously illustrated volume provides an illuminating and in-depth exploration of stunning... -
Reconsidering Gerome . Allan 9781606060384
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $29.12Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) was an undisputed success during his life. Crowds flocked to see his vibrant compositions and thanks to mass marketing of his work through mechanical reproduction, he... -
Amber and the Ancient World - And Getty Apocalypse Manuscript . Causey 9781606060827
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.02This title offers a fascinating look at the one of the ancient world's most prized substances. Amber has fascinated mankind since the Palaeolithic era. Through exquisite visual examples and vivid... -
Clay's Tectonic Shift - John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968 . Macnoughton 9781606061053
Booksplease Price: $64.31This is an absorbing look at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. "Clay's Tectonic Shift" focuses on artists John Mason (b. 1927), Kenneth... -
Photography's Orientalism - New essays on Colonial Representation . Behdad 9781606061510
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.80This book explores the interplay between 19th-century photography and Europe's vision of the Middle East. The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology... -
The Nude in Photography by Paul Martineau 9781606062661
Booksplease Price: $26.02This is a stunning visual celebration of one of photography's most enduring and evocative subjects. Born like Venus on the half shell from the centuries-long tradition of the nude in painting, the... -
Conundrum - Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series Charissa Bremer-David 9781606064535
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.33The whimsical imagery of four tapestries in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently on display at the Getty Center is perplexing. Created in France at the Beauvais... -
Twentieth–Century Color Photographs – Identification and Care by Sylvie Penichon 9781606061565
Booksplease Price: $79.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606061565Author Sylvie PenichonFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher... -
Jackson Pollock's Mural - The Transitional Moment by Yvonne Szafran 9781606063231
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $28.65This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of a post-war masterpiece and its restoration. In many ways, Mural, Jackson Pollock's (1912-1956) first large-scale painting represents the... -
Luisa Roldán by Catherine Hall-Van Den Elsen 9781606067321
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $34.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606067321Author Catherine Hall-Van Den ElsenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Getty... -
The Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum - Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection . Mattusch 9780892367221
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $84.68The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750 contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Before they... -
Perspectives on Education Reform - Arts Education as a Catalyst by Getty Trust Publications 9780892362967
Booksplease Price: $6.23Learning in and through the arts will allow education to meet the unique challenges facing it as the twenty-first century approaches. Leaders in business, technology, and arts education address these... -
The Medieval Book by Black 9781606061091
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $20.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606061091Author BlackFormat HardbackImprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty Trust... -
Looking at Textiles - A Guide to Technical Terms by Elena Phipps 9781606060803
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.71This is a concise yet detailed guide to the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles. Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse... -
Elementary Instructions for Students of Sculpture . Carradori 9780892366880
Booksplease Price: $54.44This is a translation of the 1802 introduction to studio practices for sculpture students by Francesco Carradori (1747-1824), a sculptor, restorer, and instructor of sculpture at the Accademia in... -
House Paints, 1900-1960 - History and Use . Standeven 9781606060674
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $55.77This title provides an extensive and comprehensive examination of the history and use of modern house paints. The versatility of modern commercial house paints has ensured their use in a broad range... -
Representing the Passions - Histories, Bodies, Visions . Meyer 9780892366767
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.04Through an interlocking series of texts and images, this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder, misery, ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different moments in Western culture... -
Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies - Cinema of the Enlightenment . De Brancion 9780892369096
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.53Louis de Carmontelle was an eighteenth-century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. In 1783, he began painting a series of panoramas on translucent paper that, when cranked through a... -
Visual Planning and the Picturesque . Pevsner 9781606060018
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.80This is a previously unpublished work by one of the most important architectural historians of the twentieth century. This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the... -
American Painters on Technique - The Colonial Period to 1860 by Lance Mayer 9781606060773
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $50.53This title offers an original survey on Colonial artists' materials and techniques. This is the first comprehensive study of an important but largely anonymous part of the history of American art:... -
The First Treatise on Museums - Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565 . Quiccheberg 9781606061497
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.22This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious... -
Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper Margaret Holben Ellis 9781606064320
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $66.89This book is the seventh in the Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural... -
Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru - New Questions and Approaches by . Cummins 9781606064351
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.38This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic, or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation... -
Outside In Jocelyn Gibbs 9781606064511
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $51.17This is an eye-opening tour through the exuberant works of two pioneering postwar architects. From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800... -
Dangerous Perfection- Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy Ursula Kastner 9781606064764
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $56.95In 2008, the Berlin Antikensammlung initiated a project with the J. Paul Getty Museum to conserve a group of ancient funerary vases from southern Italy. Monumental in scale and richly decorated,... -
The Invention of the American Art Museum From Craft to Kulturgeschichte, 1870-1930 Kathleen Curran 9781606064788
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $51.17A rigorous account of the European origins of American art museums American art museums share a mission and format that differ from those of their European counterparts, which often have origins in... -
Books: A Living History by Martyn Lyons 9781606060834
Booksplease Price: $33.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606060834Author . LyonsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty...