Search Results for: “Giorgio Vasari”

Penguin Classics relaunch Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo....

Author: Giorgio VasariBinding: HardbackPublished: BAY BOOKS, Sydney & London, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA restless observer moves through workshops and courts, capturing rivalries, obsessions, and moments of...

Lives of the Artists made Vasari one of the most influential art historians of all time, fusing literary and artistic ability In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian...

Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo,...

Lives of the Artists made Vasari one of the most influential art historians of all time, fusing literary and artistic ability In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian...

Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to...

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,...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A landmark work in art history, Artists of the Renaissance: An Illustrated Selection...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the world's most celebrated repositories of Renaissance art, Florence's Uffizi Gallery holds a collection so vast...

A brilliant reinvention of the detective novel, set in Renaissance Florence and packed with art, scandal, murder and scheming - from the author of the international bestseller HHhH. Florence, New...

Author: Luciano BertiBinding: PaperbackPublished: BECCUTI EDITORECondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling volume chronicles the rich history of one of the world's...

Approaches to the history of art are probably more varied and more debated than in any other branch of history, and a study of different historical approaches has become an...

Five hundred years ago the legendary Renaissance genius, Michelangelo (1475-1564), put the first brushstroke to his most ambitious creation. As he started work on his vast fresco cycle for the...

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...

Author: Terisio PignattiBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: one chip on spine jacket, foxing on FEP/End pageThis authoritative art history volume presents a comprehensive...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of art history, Giorgione: Myth and Enigma presents a rigorous and...

Italian artist Lucio Fontana tore apart the modern art establishment - literally. Trained initially as a sculptor, Fontana (1899-1968) blurred the lines between painting and sculpture by creating works that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew art books dare to gather five of the most towering figures in Western painting under a single, authoritative volume — Great Masters of...

Few painters could be said to have shaped posterity's image of a particular society against the historical and social background as did Bronzino. His portraits, religious subjects and mythological scenes...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCaravaggio by Giorgio Bonsanti chronicles the tumultuous life and revolutionary artistic contributions of the...

Author: Ludwig BaldassBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis art-focused volume presents a detailed examination of Giorgione’s works through expertly curated colour and monochrome...

Author: Salvatore Settisbinding: HardbackPublished: University Of Chicago Press, 1990Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the enigmatic painting 'Tempest' by Giorgione, delving into its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew monuments in Western art carry the transformative weight of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, where Giotto di...

Catalogue of the exhibition dedicated by La Galleria Nazionale di Roma to Vasco Bendini on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, which opened in March 2022. The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1985, the Castello di Rivoli — a magnificent Baroque palace on the outskirts of Turin...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn February 1984, the legendary Sperone Westwater gallery in New York presented Pittore in Africa, a remarkable artist's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: vol iv missing. vol ii - moderate annotations in grey lead. Few lives in the annals of European history have matched...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerTwo cities, separated by continents and centuries, converge in a single visionary artistic statement: Vitebsk/Harar by the celebrated Italian neo-expressionist Enzo Cucchi draws a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew artists in the Western canon have matched the visceral power and psychological intensity of Francisco Goya, and Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum presents an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of German postwar culture and the international avant-garde, Georg Baselitz emerged in the 1960s...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew artists captured the quiet intimacy of domestic life with such chromatic brilliance as Édouard Vuillard, the Post-Impressionist master whose canvases transformed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in postwar European art have provoked as much debate and fascination as Georg Baselitz, the German painter who turned the art world on its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedCondition remarks: faded boards. Light bumping on corners and spine. A legend of the 64 squares speaks for himself...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew artists of the twentieth century have so relentlessly interrogated the nature of representation as Georg Baselitz, the provocateur who famously began painting his subjects upside...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark contribution to the study of antipodean modernism, Modern Painters 1931–1970 presents a sweeping survey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the threshold of abstraction, Wassily Kandinsky revolutionized the language of art, and Kandinsky Compositions stands as the definitive scholarly record of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turn of the twentieth century, a rebellious current surged through the world of architecture and design — one that defied the clean...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. **JAPANESE TEXT ONLY**. Minor stains on the front cover. To stand before a painting by Takashima Yajuro...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens to the human relationship with nature when the modern world intervenes? Denatured Visions: Landscape and Culture...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artists captured the ineffable beauty of leisure and longing quite like Jean-Antoine Watteau, the French Rococo master whose shimmering canvases defined an era...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary biographies have achieved the stature of George D. Painter's monumental Marcel Proust, a work that stands...