The Northern Renaissance

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeffrey SmithAn up-to-date survey of this dynamic period of artistic innovation.&nbspReview citationsChoice - pg. 842 - 01/...

Reducere. IN THE SECOND VOLUME: Julius Evola on "The Doctrine of Battle and Victory, " Charles Champetier's interview with Alain de Benoist, Alain de Benoist...

Reducere. A great Christian classic, Erasmus' Enchiridion is described by translator Raymond Himelick as his first full, and in some ways best, formulation o...

In this fascinating new history, Paul N Balchin provides a comprehensive account of one of the more formative historical periods, uniquely describi...

Explores the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. This book co...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the origin of Renaissance painting in Italy, a world view was revived that enabled man to determine his own existence. In paintin...

The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social c...

Reducere. The Renaissance New Testament is a monumental 18-volume work more thanfifty years in the making. Randolph O. Yeager has realized here a lifelongdre...

Anxious about the threat of Ottoman invasion and a religious schism that threatened Christianity from within, sixteenth-century northern Europeans ...

A sublime compendium of drawings from the school of Renaissance virtuoso Gaudenzio FerrariThis book presents the 16th-century cartoons of Northern ...

Lancashire valley the Hollow in the Land is the setting for this novel-in-stories taking the measure of a region in decline characterised by run-do...

Reducere. Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the i...

Reducere. This illustrated edition retains Willy Pogany's original drawings. Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic an...

Here is a rich selection of floral and foliate motifs, reprinted from a rare German collection of the late nineteenth century. Included are 124 roy...

Reducere. This book is about the art and architectural treasures in the Veneto, a province in Northern Italy. A primary focus is the work of Renaissance arch...

Fascinating and highly readable, this is the definitive social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous, and politically influen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rachelle CruzIntroduction by: Barbara Jane ReyesIn many ways Rachelle Cruz, here, contests, demolishes and remixes the biza...

The stories of Christianity and painting have been intertwined since at least the Middle Ages. The painters of the early, high and late Renaissance...

Reducere. Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Irina LobatchevaAuthor: Vladislav LobatchevAuthor: Amanda BosworthIn the winter of 1959, nine hikers vanished under eerie c...

Reducere. Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate t...

In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Wester...

DescriptionThis guidebook describes 30 walks around Lakes Como and Maggiore in Northern Italy. The routes range from 3 to 20km in length and are gr...

DescriptionSand Cove is a beautiful secret haven tucked away from the city, entirely off limits to everyone except for its residents. Sand Cove see...

DescriptionIn sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explo...

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The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, b...

Reducere. Appearing under many different guises, mermaids have a long, varied history dating back many centuries. Our modern day perception of mermaids is pr...