Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy, Hardback - ***

Featuring essays by top scholars and an expansive introduction, this volume surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. It offers the most compreh...

DescriptionServing as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of...

The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence - Larry J. Feinberg

Publisher: RidinghouseAuthor(s): Dr. Penelope CurtisIllustration(s): 8 colour, 60 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2006Dimens...

Reducere. Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at ...

Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unex...

Visions of medieval castles in Fourteenth and fifteenth - century illuminations produced in France - Sabina Madgearu

Atlantic Wars is the first work to comprehensively explore how warfare shaped human experience around the Atlantic from the late Middle Ages until ...

In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

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Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic ...

Publisher: Henry Moore Sculpture TrustIllustration(s): 178 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 404Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 170 x 241 x 29Cov...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Laurie Schneider AdamsIllustration(s): 5 figuresNumber of pages: 181Publication date: 2006Dimensions...

An exciting new account of Irish high crosses

This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors and patrons dealt with the practical and esoteric i...

DescriptionIn the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant name...

Edward Gordon Duff (1863-1924) was a librarian and bibliographer with a particular interest in the early history of the printed book. This 1899 wor...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Adriana TrigianiNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 225 x 145 x 43Cover type: HardbackRede...

„Printre artistii plastici romani a caror opera este marcata de muzica – in sensul cel mai inalt al termenului – Alexandru Tipoia ocupa un loc apar...

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The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches such as work...

Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans within sixteenth-cen...

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This first book-length study of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century addresses issues of conflict, kinship, lordship, law, justi...

Showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely tod...

Reducere. This extraordinary seven-part book covers the processes of creating 13 projects -- from pencils to vases to bicycles -- for all personalities, skil...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard KieckheferPreserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that...

Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tam...

Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationshi...

Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still life paintings, the Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del Sarto, a...

Publisher: Tate PublishingAuthor(s): Nicolette JonesIllustration(s): 46 illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 246 x 30...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

A study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the cour...

Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-did...