Renaissance
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Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism
$35.00 Add to cartFocusing on a carefully curated selection of Catholic art and artifacts, this volume explores the influence of iconography and the mystic power of a range of ritual objects. Expert Suzanna Ivanic iden
- Series: Religious and Spiritual Imagery #1
- Author: Ivanic, Suzanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252548
- 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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The Boleyn Inheritance
$22.00 Add to cartFrom “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family.
A- Series: Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 07 2007
- ISBN10: 074327251X
- Language: English
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Leonardo
$20.00 Add to cartFilling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a mastermind
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Zöllner, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836502151
- 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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Da Vinci’s Cat
$7.99 Add to cart“Thoroughly charming.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Original.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A story about selflessness, friendship and the importance of seeking unity through difference.”—Shelf Awa
- Author: Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0063015269
- Language: English
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The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Alison Weir explores the turbulent life of Henry VIII’s mother, Elizabeth, the first queen of the Tudor dynasty, in this “superbly readable and engaging” (Historical … [more below]
- Author: Weir, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593355059
- Language: English
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Leonardo. the Complete Drawings
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world’s most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philoso
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Zöllner, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 15 2014
- ISBN10: 3836554410
- Language: English
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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
$39.99 Add to cartBeginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume–the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World–chronicles the co… [more below]
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0393059766
- 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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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
$22.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings–the dazzling handiwork of the city’s skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159834
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
$19.99 Add to cartUpdated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a “captivating and marvelously vivid” popular history of the Middle Ages (Publishers Weekly… [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0316545562
- Language: English
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I Am Leonardo Da Vinci
$16.99 Add to cartThe famous Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci is the twentieth hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series. (Cover may vary)
This friendly, fun biography serie- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525555889
- Language: English
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The Stolen Lady: A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa
$19.99 Read more“P.S. Insights, inverviews & more…”–Back cover.
- Author: Morelli, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0062993593
- Language: English
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Leonardo. the Complete Paintings and Drawings
$60.00 Add to cartUnmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: a peerless master of painting, sculpture, cartograph
- Author: Zöllner, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 11 2019
- ISBN10: 3836576252
- 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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Orlando: Introduction by Jeanette Winterson
$27.00 Read moreA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. With a new introduction by Jea… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1101908327
- 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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Sublunar
$15.95 Add to cartA great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants–a filthy cast of characters–Sublunar is both novel an… [more below]
- Author: Voetmann, Harald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0811229785
- Language: English
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The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome
$18.99 Add to cartThe rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as cont
- Author: Morrissey, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060525347
- Language: English
