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Sublime Ideas: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
A beautifully rendered book that is the most important study of Piranesi's drawings to appear in more than a generation. In a letter written near the end of his life,...
The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting
This beautifully illustrated, compact edition, presents an overview of Dutch and Flemish art during the 17th century illuminates the creative achievements of one of the most important eras in western...
Divine Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni
This study of Guido Reni considers his complexities, his formative experiences, his cultural surroundings and his sensibilities. It views his career from a variety of perspectives and sets his life...
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume II: Later
A bold, in-depth analysis of the pastoral form in writing and art.A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature is an unprecedented exploration of the pastoral through the close examination...
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume I: Earlier
A bold, in-depth analysis of the pastoral form in writing and art.A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature is an unprecedented exploration of the pastoral through the close examination...
Reflections on Baroque
From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe, and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even Muslim Turkey. Architecture, art, poetry, music, natural...
Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730
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Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that...
St James's Palace: From Leper Hospital to Royal Court
In this first modern history of St James's Palace, the authors shed new light on a remarkable building that, despite serving as the official residence of the British monarchy from...
Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture
At first a successful painter of the Roman Baroque, Pietro (Berrettini) da Cortona (1597-1669) soon emerged as an architect of equal stature. This book is the first to focus full...
Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque
The age of the Baroque-a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics-witnessed the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. What did the work of...
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...
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary,...
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...