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Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence, 1620-1800
The complexity and sophistication of Baroque art, developed through the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, could be understood as an attempt to move, arrest and overwhelm the viewer with beauty....
Handel's Bestiary
When Donna Leon, the acclaimed author of the best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice, she is listening to opera. Over...
Italian Women Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
This title discusses women's artistic productions within established historical and geographical frameworks, also provides a survey of women professionally active as painters, engravers and sculptors in 16th and 17th century...
Tiepolo Pink
New to Penguin Modern Classics- a captivating exploration of the work of one of Italy's most influential - and least understood - painters Throughout his masterpiece, In Search of Lost...
In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura
This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696 1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura, the...
Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition
Author: Stephanie S. DickeyFormat: Hardback, 235mm x 298mm, 384 pagesPublished: Yale University Press, United States, 2021An in-depth examination of the crucial role that Amsterdam played in Rembrandt's evolution as an...
Renoir: Rococo Revival
Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...