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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kochin is a Heartsooth - a rare being with the ability to heal any wound. Any wound, that is, except death. Gradually he realises the answer to his desperate quest...

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: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the twilight of his turbulent life, Lord Byron — poet, exile, and legend — fell into a love affair so consuming...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the turbulent backdrop of Soviet Russia's forced collectivisation campaign of the early 1930s,...

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: 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 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: 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 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 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 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: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1985, the Castello di Rivoli — a magnificent Baroque palace on the outskirts of Turin...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat happens when the passion of Italian opera meets the soul of Italian cuisine? Allegro Al Dente: Pasta & Opera is a gloriously indulgent celebration of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have been as misunderstood, mythologised, and ultimately as tragic as George III — a king who ruled for sixty...

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...

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: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Western intellectual history burned as brilliantly — or as dangerously — as François-Marie Arouet, the man the world came...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodRenaissance Italy comes alive with menace and beauty in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait, a gripping historical novel that reimagines the brief, ill-fated life of...

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...

Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's earliest artistic voices speak across centuries in Colonial Painters 1788–1880, a richly authoritative survey that chronicles the...

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach...

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...