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The Heritage Of Apelles: Studies In The Art Of The Renaissance
$45.00 AUD
Author: E. H. GombrichBinding: HardbackPublished: PHAIDON, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly collection of essays by a distinguished art historian illuminates the profound connections between...
Norm And Form: Studies In The Art Of The Renaissance
$40.00 AUD
Author: E.H. GombrichBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon Press, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerNorm And Form: Studies In The Art Of The Renaissance With 186 Illustrations presents a...
The Spectacle Of Empire: Style, Effect And The Pax Britannica
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Author: Jan MorrisBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical account chronicles the grandeur and complexities of the British Empire, presenting a...
Gardens of Paris Sketchbook
Blessed with a colourful history and temperate climate, Paris has a rich variety of gardens and a diverse range of flora. The history, aesthetics, design and botanical heritage of Parisian...
Champs-Elysees, The
Considered internationally as one of the most beautiful avenue in the world, Paris's Champs-Elysees, extending from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, has been the center...
Nero: the man behind the myth
One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled while Rome burnt. Such a...
The Polite Tourist: Country House Visiting Through the Centuries
Country house visiting is one of Britain's favorite leisure activities. For more than five centuries, historic buildings have opened their doors, inviting the tourist to step inside. Elizabethans strolled around...
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book -...
Power and Display in the Seventeenth Century: The Arts and their
The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic
It has often been thought that Roman politics was dominated by a governing class, or even aristocracy, and it has sometimes been presumed that the Senate was a legislative body....
In The Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral: The Churchyard that Shaped
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the...
Cosme Tura of Ferrara: Style, Politics and the Renaissance City,
In the city of Ferrara, a major cultural and artistic centre of Renaissance Italy, Cosme Tura (c. 1430-1495) came to prominence as painter to the Este court. This book offers...
Rome: Urban Formation and Transformation
Formation is ideal and utopian thinking, whereas Transformation is the adaptation of the ideal to the real or existing conditions. Are the two mutually exclusive? Or do they exist in...
French Essence: Ambience, Beauty and Style in Provence
French Essence is a celebration of life in Provence, one of the most charming regions of France. Vicki Archer reveals the underpinnings of that famous French ambience and sense of...
Scandinavian Cookbook
Scandinavia has much to offer in the way of food and lifestyle, and the cuisine of the three main countries, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, is fast becoming of international interest....
The Rome Plague Diaries: Lockdown Life in the Eternal City
On the first morning of Rome's Covid-19 lockdown Matthew Kneale felt an urge to connect with friends and acquaintances and began writing an email, describing where he was, what was...
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why
Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? How to deal with the colonial history of art in...
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million visitors trek to view her portrait in the...
The Art Of Rome
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Author: Bernard AndreaeBinding: HardbackPublished: MACMILLAN LONDON LIMITED, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor yellowing of external dust jacketThis authoritative volume chronicles the magnificent artistic achievements of...
Ruins of Ancient Rome: Drawings of the French Architects Who Won the
$200.00 AUD
Traditionally, a critical component of the education of any architect was to draw the ruins of ancient Rome, reconstructing either from ancient sources or, more often, pure fantasy, what the...
Patrons And Painters: A Study In The Relations Between Italian Art And Society In The Age Of The Baroque
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Author: Francis HaskellBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner's details in FEP, discoloured top-edge from tanning, some...
The Long Weekend: Australian Artists In France 1918 - 1939
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Author: Karen QuinlanBinding: HardbackPublished: Bendigo Art Gallery., 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanned edges.The historical study The Long Weekend: Australian Artists In France 1918 - 1939...
The Trevi Fountain
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Author: John A. PintoBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some slight markings to DJ, foxed pages, previous owner's name to...
Atlas of the Viking World
One of the "Culural Atlas" series, this is an illustrated history of the Viking Age - Europe's dominant culture for over 300 years from the late 8th century. Centred on...
Orcagna's Tabernacle in Orsanmichele, Florence
The tabernacle of the Madonna in the Church of Orsanmichele in Florence is one of the great monuments of Gothic art. Commissioned in 1349 by the Laudesi, a society devoted...
Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire
A massive crowd of people, cloaked in the colors of their beloved athletes, slowly fill a 150,000-seat arena to cheer on their favorite teams. Athletes enter the stadium amid great...
Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), known as Canaletto, is one of the most popular of all old master painters. His views of Venice and London are much celebrated and admired. First...
Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography
This book introduces the reader to the ideas and the personality of a scholar who exerted a major influence on the course of art-historical studies through his publications, through the...
Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths
Through translations of their surviving writings, the Vikings speak directly to the modern reader in this book, revealing much of their everyday feelings and concerns. The Vikings are shown as...
The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the
The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a...
Rome
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This is a guide to Rome, its history, art, literature and personalities. In six tried-and-tested routes, the author explores the ancient city of Rome, how it has developed over 2500...
The Chapel of the Magi: Benozzo Gozzoli's Frescoes in the Palazzo
A glittering cavalcade of men and animals winds through a rocky landscape under an azure sky. The men are dressed in all the luxury of Italian 15th-century fashions, in brilliant...
Family Houses in the Country
An examination of the interiors and exteriors of a selection of country houses from the United States, England, Scotland, Italy and France. It is illustrated with colour photography and is...
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
One of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on dairies, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoratative account of a...
Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome
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The bewitching story of Rome teaching a lonely scholar how to discover himself"" "Satyr Square"--part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue--is a poignant, hilarious narrative about an...
The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture,
Fifty years after his seminal Tate gallery London exhibition, 'The Elizabethan Image', leading authority Roy Strong returns with fresh eyes to the subject closest to his heart, The Virgin Queen,...
Romanesque Architecture: The First Style of the European Age
In a new addition to the Pelican History of Art series, leading architectural historian Eric Fernie presents a fascinating survey of Romanesque architecture and the political systems that gave rise...
Spanish Landscapes
Spain is a land of arid mountains and plains of red earth, of fertile farmland, shaded avenues and citrus groves. Charlie Waite has captured the essence and variety of Spain...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
'An endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book' Neil MacGregor 'Full of delights' Tom Stoppard An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the most beguiling history book of the year This...
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great
When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It...
The Gentry: Stories of the English
Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write - the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and,...
A Secret Affair
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A delightful novella from the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance Thirty-three-year-old Bill Fitzgerald is an acclaimed American television foreign correspondent. War-weary and exhausted after a long stint...
Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern
Chesnok: Recipes with Love from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Beyond is Polina Chesnakova's third cookbook, a love letter to the food of her childhood. Born in Ukraine to Russian...
Greece
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Author: Henry MillerBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson., 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA captivating travelogue, Greece chronicles Henry Miller's profound...
Swedish Design: The Best in Swedish Design Today
The author presents a survey of over 30 Swedish designers, from glass and textile designers to ceramic artists and furniture makers, which provides an insight into Scandanavian design philosophies. The...
Eat Copenhagen: Recipes and Stories From Scandinavia
A collection of recipes from an effortlessly stylish city, interspersed with stories that set the culinary scene of the Danish capital. From the chic restaurants of Vesterbro to the buzzing...
Boccaccio's Decameron: Illuminated Manuscripts, 15Th Century Manuscript
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Author: Edmond PognonBinding: HardbackPublished: Miller Graphics, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis volume presents a stunning visual journey through the medieval artistry that brought Boccaccio's Decameron to life. It...