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The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. "An impressive work...deeply, rightly passionate about the great...

Artistic and scientific genius of the Italian Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci excelled as a painter sculptor architect and engineer. Marvel at the astounding artistic achievements of one of the greatest...

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world. The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century set of playing...

"A considerable work of assimilative scholarship and common sense...races along merrily."-The Boston Globe A lively biography of the high genius of the renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci French writer Serge Bramly's...

Reproduces a selection of da Vinci's drawings and paintings and provides information on their meaning and background

A lavish, oversized volume entirely devoted to the art of fresco painting in Italy. Starting with Giotto, the great pictorial cycles that have decorated churches and noble palaces across the...

This study looks at Leonardo's beginnings as an artist from his years in the Florentine workshop of sculptor, Andrea del Verrocchio, to his first paintings. The author scrutinizes Leonardo's works...

Renaissance artists had a habit of encoding meanings into symbols - everything from bee-hives to centaurs. Sometimes these meanings in paintings, sculptures, buildings and literature drew upon a traditional symbolic...

Among the renowned Old Master paintings at the Wallace Collection in London is an important group of 27 eighteenth-century views of Venice, known as vedute , by Canaletto and his...

The book titled Michelangelo by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world is now widely recognized as the classic treatment of Leonardo's art, science, and thought, giving an unparalleled...

Leonardo Da Vinci had an insatiable desire to understand the world around him and the place of humanity in it, and believed that the knowledge he sought could only be...

It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie...

A journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple. How did the apple, unmentioned by the Bible, become the dominant symbol of temptation, sin, and the...

The titles in this practical series of monographs are substantial paperbacks, exciting leisure reading, and useful reference works all in one. They are not only far more informative than any...

The titles in this practical series of monographs are substantial paperbacks, exciting leisure reading, and useful reference works all in one. They are not only far more informative than any...

The first biography since 1877 of Venice's greatest artist - a towering work which captures the genius of Titian, beautifully illustrated throughout with full colour plates. Devoted father and loyal...

The book titled Italian Renaissance Sculpture by the author John Pope-Hennessy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto,...

Between Renaissance and Baroque is a stunning achievement - the first book to be written about the original painting commissions of the Jesuits in Rome. Offering a uniquely comprehensive and...

During much of the sixteenth century, Rome was the artistic centre of the known world, and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the wealthy and powerful grandson of Pope Paul III, was the...

Bram Kempers presents the period of the Renaissance as a process of the developing professionalization of the artist, with a line of patronage stretching from the mendicant orders and city...

Continuing the tradition of the Everyman Art Series, combining learned yet accessible text with high-quality illustrations, detailing Rome's rich cultural history in the Renaissance, dominated bt Papal authority.

Giovanni Canavesio, a Piedmontese artist-priest active in the last decades of the fifteenth century in the southern Alps, left behind a significant body of work, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces....

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...

Following the success of the previous volumes in this extraordinary Series (The Early Renaissance and The Flowering of the Renaissance), Italian Frescoes: The High Renaissance to the Early Baroque presents...

Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted much scholarly attention, bringing liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide a...

A study of Renaissance Italy and the north, focusing on crosscurrents in the time of Durer, Bellini and Titian. It contains essays on subjects such as the invention of oil...

Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today-with beautiful illustrations...

Italian Architecture of the 16th Century is the last published work of the legendary Colin Rowe, the fruit of his four-year collaboration with Leon Satkowski, a Rowe student and author...

Tour two of the world's most artistic cities through the creations of one of the greatest artists. Evidence of Michelangelo's genius is scattered throughout Italy, especially in the historic cities...

Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or most of the...

100 of the most important buildings of the Italian Renaissance.

One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance. Written by a friend, fellow painter and fellow Florentine. Now in a fully...

Craving pleasure as well as knowledge, Raphael Sanzio was quick to realize that his talent would only be truly appreciated in the liberal, carefree and extravagantly sensual atmosphere of Rome...

A fresh look at the early Renaissance, considering Florentine and Netherlandish art as a single phenomenon at once deeply spiritual and entirely new A fresh look at the early Renaissance,...

Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city's most important patron of art and...

The Italian Renaissance is one of the most important eras in Western art. Painters including Masaccio, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Titian brought about a fundamental renewal that influenced all of Europe....

The book titled The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools by the author Cecil Gould. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa" considers the language of art in relationship to the issues of gender difference through an examination of art criticism written between 1550 and 1800 on approximately...

Isabella 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...

This series looks at artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology....

In "The Viewer as Poet", Norman Land provides a comprehensive survey of ekphrasis in literature and art criticism from antiquity through the Renaissance. Land demonstrates that Renaissance art criticism assimilated...

Arguably the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatello (c.1386-1466) was at the vanguard of a revolution in sculptural practice in the early Renaissance. Combining ideas from classical and medieval sculpture...

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today-as he was in his own time-for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images...

Rosso Fiorentino is one of the most original and difficult painters of the entire Renaissance period, and a crucial figure among the so-called Mannerists. This account of the life and...