Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power, Hardcover - Alison Cole

In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, an...

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.

The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine.When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, w...

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Improve your comprehension, grow your vocabulary and ignite your imagination with eight more unconventional Italian short stories from bestselling ...

Reducere. In this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, betwe...

An illustrated key to unlocking the mysteries of paintings, sculpture and architecture by the great Italian masters, this book also provides fresh ...

Reducere. Filled with practical advice that will help anyone obtain the information they seek through Italian records, Italian Genealogical Records is a comp...

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How the immigration courts became part of the nation's law enforcement agency--and how to reshape them. During the Trump administration, the immigr...

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The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

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This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bang...

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much...

Bestselling author Kresley Cole continues her Immortals After DarkSeries with this seventh instalment.

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★ Publishers Weekly starred review. Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they compat...

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A person can never get too far from God and His plan and purpose for their life that they can't get back to Him and have a fresh start. There is al...

An anthology of Italian tales covering the period roughly from 1370 to 1630, during which the novella was the dominant form of prose fiction.

Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate...

Reducere. A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 157...

Reducere. ****Included on the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force's reading list for 2008 and the Royal Air Force's Centre for Air Power Studies 20...

DescriptionPush a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can se...

DescriptionThe Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art--one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progres...

Reducere. DescriptionOver the course of five decades, California-based painter Max Cole (born 1937) has refined her visual language into a series of vertical...

Reducere. The Italian Renaissance is one of the most important eras in Western art. Painters including Masaccio, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Titian brought...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance.

DescriptionA revelatory examination of Roger Fry's fascinating but relatively little-known writings on his first love, Italian art. Drawing on arti...

A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.Illustrations: 4 Line drawing...

Discover how a super computer named Query created "The Character Club" ofsuperheroes at Hillview Elementary to be leaders and use teamwork with cha...

1. Violin Concerto in A Minor, RV 356: I. Allegro - Antonio Vivaldi2. Violin Concerto in A Minor, RV 356: II. Largo - Antonio Vivaldi3. Violin Conc...

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The Renaissance was a reaction against the attitude of the Middle Ages. And the Reformation was the passionate, divisive argument that grew out of ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Alison PeckIllustration(s): 1 tableNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x ...

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DescriptionIn this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic, and intellectual blossoming in Florence fro...

Reducere. DescriptionA global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline, and how they will sa...

Award-winning historian Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this new and beautifully illustra...

The Renaissance (14th-17th C) was a pivotal period in the development of Western art, and Italy was its crucible. With fascinating insights and lus...

*A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness'...