Renaissance
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Raphael
$50.00 Read moreA definitive overview of one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian Renaissance
Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483-1520) is unarguably the artist who has been mo- Author: Ekserdjian, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1857096584
- Language: English
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Van Eyck
$20.00 Add to cartOften imitated but never equaled, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. With its unprecedented precision and master
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Borchert, Till-Holger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 04 2020
- ISBN10: 3836545055
- Language: English
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The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West
$34.99 Add to cartA new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace–Renaissance Italy
The period between 1492–resonant for a number of reasons–and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle o- Author: Fletcher, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0190908491
- Language: English
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Marsilio Ficino, Three Books on Life: A Critical Edition and Translation: Volume 57
$45.00 Add to cart- Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies #57
- Author: Kaske, Carol V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 086698822X
- Language: English
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
$26.99 Add to cart“A stunning five-century study of civilization’s cultural retreat.” — William Safire, New York Times
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master his
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060928832
- Language: English
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Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
$24.95 Add to cartAn entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought
This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the excitin- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0691168695
- Language: English
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The Craftsman’s Handbook
$14.95 Read moreThis is D. V. Thompson’s definitive English translation of Il Libro dell’Arte, an intriguing guide to methods of painting, written in fifteenth-century Florence. Embodying the secrets and techniques
- Series: Dover Art Instruction
- Author: Cennini, Cennino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 1954
- ISBN10: 048620054X
- Language: English
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
$25.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. – “Cahill is our king of popula… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #06
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0385495587
- 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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Michelangelo. the Graphic Work
$25.00 Add to cartVery few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). The nickname il divino (“the divine one”) has been applied to him since the 1530s righ
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Pöpper, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 3836537192
- Language: English
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Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNiccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reput… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Skinner, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198837577
- Language: English
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Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$24.99 Add to cartWestern philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks
- Author: Gottlieb, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492969
- Language: English
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White: The History of a Color
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to today
As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0691243492
- Language: English
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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
$21.99 Add to cartThe creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West
- Author: Wyman, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1538701197
- Language: English
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Pensées
$13.00 Add to cartBlaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation no… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140446451
- Language: English
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and so
- Series: Princeton Classics #25
- Author: Pocock, John Greville Agard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691172234
- 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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Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
$80.00 Add to cartA magnificent, never-before-published collection of every painting and fresco on display in the Uffizi, the Galleria Palatina of the Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo, and more — nearly 2,00… [more below]
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1631910019
- Language: English
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Vermeer
$20.00 Add to cartThough numbering just 35 known works, the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Schneider, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836504898
- Language: English
