Renaissance Books

This impressive reference work presents the key works of Renaissance architecture, sculpture and painting through words and pictures and sets them ...

Reducere. In his commentaries on five parables from the Leih Tzu, Osho brings a fresh and contemporary interpretation to the ancient wisdom of Tao. Leih Tzu ...

Reducere. The Renaissance can be considered a "golden age" because it is rich with discoveries and of people who challenged the norm to leave their marks in ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and...

Reducere. A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance, examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance images and artifacts.In...

Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, "Sweet Nosegay" (1573) and "The Copy of a Letter" (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining cla...

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

Reducere. The ancient world reveres and dreads the fierce ha-mazaans. Now, an Oracle has prophesied their destruction.Heir to the Defender's Throne in the re...

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literatur...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all have been as...

Reducere. For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the p...

This comprehensive, highly illustrated new study examines Titian's long career and varied output. Tom Nichols argues that Titian's works were self-...

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world ...

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...

From farming, cooking and feasting scenes depicted in the Middle Ages in books of hours to the fish and fruit of ancient frescoes and mosaics, Food...

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...

Historian Ruth Goodman provides a history of offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour and scandal in the sixteenth and seventeent...

Publisher: Lexington BooksAuthor(s): Svitlana MalykhinaNumber of pages: 210Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 237 x 153 x 19Cover type: HardbackRede...

A wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art that examines the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically ...

Includes George Puttenham's "Art of English Poesy", Samuel Daniel's "Defense of Rhyme", and passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon a...

Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI...

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. This book surveys this...

Reducere. The Renaissance Lute Chord Bible, with its 1, 728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. ...

Classic study of the condottiere of fifteenth-century Italy.

Reducere. DescriptionThe Renaissance Lute Chord Bible, with its 1, 728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional music...

The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly cha...

Reducere. The Ugly Renaissance is a delightfully debauched tour of the sordid, gritty reality behind some of the most celebrated artworks and cultural innova...

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He ...

Reducere. Celebrate one of the most important periods of American cultural history: the Harlem Renaissance This package features beautiful illustrations, poe...

An exploration of food images in European and American painting from the early Renaissance to the present. It underlines the central importance of ...

Reducere. DescriptionHow the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination.European narratives of the Atlantic New Wo...

AN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONER Poetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet fo...

This book details fifteen debilitating "fault lines" facing the United States, ranging from Beltway dysfunction, to incoherent foreign policy pursu...

In Penned & Painted, Lucy Freeman Sandler, one of one of the world's most respected authorities on medieval art, takes us on a personal but highly ...

A reappraisal of the traditional narrative and the causes and consequences of Britain's initial interactions with Rome.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books...

The first full-colour reproduction of the entire Durer fight book that has ever been published.Publisher: Greenhill BooksAuthor(s): Daniel JaquetIl...

Reducere. A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by...

Reducere. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle A...

Reducere. A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Damian DibbenNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 223 x 144 x 35Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. - The first deck in several hundred years to present the expanded 97-card Tarot system of the Renaissance. - Based on the original Italian Renaissa...