European History

Paris is a city of pure enchantment, and everyone who loves the City of Light has a Parisian muse, from the Tour Eiffel to CREME CARAMEL. For celebrated graphic designer...

This guide offers numerous suggestions for exploratory walks through the picture-postcard landscapes of Tuscany, Umbria and Latium. It features fifty itineraries ranging from brief strolls to a five-day trek, taking...

Chambord occupies a special place among French Renaissance chateaux. Designed by Francis I as a hunting lodge for his friends and family and subsequently transformed into an immense residence, Chambord...

This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Giotto was the...

This guide offers a complete history of Paris and the people who have shaped its destiny, from its earliest settlement as the Roman village of "Lutetia Parisiorum" with a few...

While the ancient Romans were not the first society to construct a system of great roads, they did introduce important technical advancements and develop a highly organized and pervasive network...

Roman Public Buildings was first published in the Exeter Studies in History series in 1989. It examines the development of Roman architecture and the significance of different types of buildings...

A criticial look at Pontormo's baroque works emphasizes his idealism as opposed to realism, and his interpretations of biblical events and human nature on canvas and in plaster

The book titled Pontoromo: Drawings by the author Jacopo Carucci Pontormo. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Focusing primarily on Rome and other cities of central Italy, James C. Anderson, Jr, describes the training, career path and social status of both architects and builders. He explains how...

This treasure from the 1960s celebrates Paris through spectacular architectural drawings.

An exploration of the local crafts in the area from Rollright to Bath.

For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to that character we all loved: Josie from Looking for Alibrandi . But...

Florence has for centuries attracted writers, bewitched by the beauty of its surroundings, the quality of its light, and the treasures it houses in its palaces, churches and museums. These...

A study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) who was well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered less important than Giotto and his followers....

The book titled Companion to Scottish History from the Reformation to the Present by the author Ian Donnachie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Cities throughout the Roman Empire flourished during the reign of Hadrian (AD 117-138), a phenomenon that not only strengthened and legitimized Roman dominion over its possessions but also revealed Hadrian...

Intended by medieval builders to be the greatest of the High Gothic cathedrals, Saint-Pierre Beauvais has achieved notoriety among historians because it was indeed the tallest structure of its kind...

Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the...

A travel book which aims both to convey what it is like to live in Tuscany from the viewpoint of an Englishman who has made it his home for more...

The book titled A Guide to Tuscany by the author James Bentley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Chapel of Eleonora was the first painted chapel to be commissioned by the Medici in the 16th century. Was the chapel a gift from Duke Cosimo to his bride,...

The gruesome Aztec practice of mass human sacrifice horrified Cortes when he entered Tenochticlan in 1519. Yet these bloodthirsty warriors also created a refined society, monumental architecture, powerful sculpture, magnificently...

Part of a series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Giuseppe Verdi and is suitable for musicians, students and the...

After the great fire of 1666, a new London thrust out from the old confines of the city and the narrow precinct of Westminster. The rich were eager to escape...

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...

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...

Parmigianino (1503-1540) was one of the Italian Renaissance's greatest geniuses. Characterised by his distinctive and elegant style and exquisite draughtsmanship, he was also, like Durer, one of the first painter-etchers,...

The Louvre, the Place Royale (now the Place des Vosges), the Place and rue Dauphine, the Pont Neuf and the Hopital Saint Louis were part of a building programme initiated...

This is the second of a three-volume set of the complete Sangallo workshop drawing collection housed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484-1546) and his...

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the...

By the end of the fifteen century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici...

This work replaces Harold Osborne's Oxford Companion to Art (1970), which has been continuously in print for thirty years. Though originally commissioned as a new edition of Osborne's book, it...

Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the...

In 1947 a young american woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But Rome had its way with her, the novel was...

Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating' and 'a treasure of a read'... Love grows where you least expect it... July...

This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world's master storytellers....

The definitive history of Coronation and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation. What do people talk most about?...

The British Empire radically altered the modern world. At its height, it governed over a quarter of the human race and encompassed more that a fifth of the globe. As...

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...

"The Annals of London" chronicles the events which have changed the face of London and engaged, diverted or outraged its inhabitants in the years since the settlement of Londinium was...

The life of Sandro Botticelli coincided with the close of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th, a period that saw transition from the rule of the Medici,...

The book titled Art and Design in Europe and America, 1800-1900 by the author Victoria and Albert Museum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Written by the former Deputy Director of the San Marco Museum and illustrated with over 120 newly commis sioned colour photographs, this attractive book provides a u nique insight into...

The first such dictionary since that of Platner and Ashby in 1929, 'A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome' defines and describes the known buildings and monuments, as well as...

Robert Hooke was one of the most gifted men of his age, but it was his great misfortune to work in the sphere of two remarkable men - Isaac Newton...