History - Renaissance
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Titian: His Life and Works: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist in Context, with a Gallery of His Paintings and Drawings
$35.00 Read moreCelebrated for his use of expressive brush marks, which filled his paintings with dynamism, light and colour in a way not seen before in Renaissance art, Tiziano Veccellio became the greatest painter
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0754835537
- Language: English
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Leonardo, Frida and the Others: The History of Art, 800 Years – 100 Artists
$35.00 Add to cartThis fresh and engaging, illustrated history of art explains the fundamentals every art lover needs while presenting the development of different schools and styles as one continuous, astonishing time… [more below]
- Author: Jouneaux, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377183
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
$11.95 Add to cartThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pater, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199535078
- Language: English
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Bruegel
$20.00 Add to cartThe great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836553066
- Language: English
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Raphael
$20.00 Add to cartIn art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483-1520) is one such star. The man we call simply Raphae
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Thoenes, Christof
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 07 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532425
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Works
$19.99 Add to cartLeonardo Da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived, responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Ma… [more below]
- Author: Da Vinci, Leonardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0715324535
- Language: English
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Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
$45.00 Read moreThe lives, works and imagery of women artists, patrons and icons in Renaissance Italy
The story of the Renaissance in Italy is often told through the work of great male artists such as Michelangelo, Ra
- Author: Cambareri, Marietta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0878468927
- Language: English
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Yellow: The History of a Color
$39.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present
In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau–a renowned authority on the history of- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 069119825X
- Language: English
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Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini
$28.95 Read moreReunites two masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance after more than four centuries apart.
The Three Philosophers by Giorgione (Italian, 1477-1510) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and St. Fr
- Author: Salomon, Xavier F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 191387544X
- Language: English
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All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel
$25.95 Add to cartA deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo’s frescoes–and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age.
What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Ma
- Author: Marshall, Jeannie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965339
- Language: English
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Michelangelo. the Complete Works. Paintings, Sculptures, Architecture
$100.00 Add to cartBefore reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Piet? and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter,
- Author: Thoenes, Christof
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 06 2022
- ISBN10: 3836586126
- Language: English
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Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
$28.95 Read moreSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city’s powerful Me
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324004010
- Language: English
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Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend
$45.00 Read moreAn abundantly illustrated narrative that draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation in telling the extraordinary story of a Ren… [more below]
- Author: King, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1606068393
- Language: English
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What Great Paintings Say. Masterpieces in Detail
$25.00 Add to cartThis important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the world’s most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and al
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836559269
- Language: English
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The Book of Miracles
$60.00 Add to cartThe Book of Miracles first surfaced only a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-complete illustrated manuscript, created in Augsburg a
- Author: Waterman, Joshua P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: May 31 2017
- ISBN10: 3836564149
- Language: English
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Leonardo’s Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master
$23.99 Add to cartLeonardo’s Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.
Leonardo da Vinci- Series: Notebook
- Author: Da Vinci, Leonardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1579129463
- Language: English
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Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance
$39.95 Add to cartWhat was the “Renaissance”? In the nineteenth century this flowering of creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern world. Today many historians are sceptical about its very exist
- Author: Jones, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0500023131
- Language: English
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The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World’s Most Famous Artwork
$32.00 Add to cart“Historian Charney tracks the eventful life of the Mona Lisa in this rollicking account…. The result is both a thrilling tale of true crime and a rigorous work of art history.” — Publishers Weekly,
- Author: Charney, Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1538181363
- Language: English
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Saarinen
$20.00 Read moreThe creator of the ubiquitous Knoll “Tulip” chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Serraino, Pierluigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 25 2017
- ISBN10: 3836544318
- Language: English
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Hieronymus Bosch. the Complete Works. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Read moreOnly 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured his place as one of the most c
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Fischer, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 28 2021
- ISBN10: 3836587866
- Language: English
