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

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

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 ...

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

Leonardo by Leonardo is a landmark publication on Leonardo da Vinci, the immortal Renaissance artist universally considered one of the greatest pai...

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

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

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

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...

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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...

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

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

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This comprehensive book is an essential volume for anyone who wants to learn more about Leonardo da Vinci and to survey his greatest works in one c...

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An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and his...

The experts introduce superb historical buildings and sculptures in their historical contexts, and as insiders lead you through world famous painti...

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

Who are the Popes and how does the Roman Catholic Church define their role? What about the present day Popes? What is the ecumenical significance o...

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

A luxurious and definitive exploration of how and why the Renaissance flourished in Italy for two centuries.Publisher: PrestelAuthor(s): Norbert Wo...

Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence.

This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic, religious, and other developments in England from the end ...

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...

Reducere. "My Life in Art" is the 1924 autobiography of seminal Russian actor and teacher Konstantin Stanislavski. The book is divided into four sections: "A...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lew...

Publisher: Rare Bird BooksAuthor(s): Larry JaffeeNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 214 x 140 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softba...

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the Renaissance humanist ideal, a logical polymath of epic proportions who excelled and had interes...

Ahead of the 500th anniversary of Da Vinci's death in 2019, the largest collection of the artist's drawings is represented here, demonstrating Da V...

"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and six...

Reducere. "No Excuses" is the true story of a boy traveling across America with his family and their fifty-foot-long trailer full of adventures in the 1950's...

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The first-ever biography of Larry Stephens, the man who transformed British comedy as a writer for Tony Hancock and The Goon Show

Publisher: Dia Art Foundation, U.S.Number of pages: 76Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 220 x 270 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. Scientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect -- Leonardo da Vinci, builder of the fir...

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

Reducere. Barbara Hepworth is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, and her organic sculptures have come to exemplify three-dimensional...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Arnold Hermann Ludwig HeerenIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 486Publication date: 20...

DescriptionThe empowering story of Larry Hite's unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world--with critical insights and lessons you can take t...

Reducere. There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress display detailed t...

Martin Kemp, described by The Times as `the world's leading authority on Leonardo', relates his fifty-year relationship with the most famous artist...

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

By pairing classic paintings with contemporary captions, Men to Avoid in Art and Life perfectly captures those relatable moments when a man very gr...

Reducere. I have had the temerity to undertake a book about Anna Pavlova for two reasons. The first is that in the whole course of her theatrical life I was ...

John Ruskins insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically al...

This expanded and revised edition celebrates the work of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui by exploring the artist's life and the trajectory of his remark...