Titian's Icons: Tradition, Charisma, and Devotion in Renaissance Italy, Hardcover - Christopher J. Nygren

Titian, one of the most successful painters of the Italian Renaissance, was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image, t...

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

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

A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance--from Petrarch to Machiavelli--that reveals the all-important role ...

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

This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance. Dealing wi...

Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. This wide-ranging volume explores patrimony in legal thought and how family property...

The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet, in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cu...

Reducere. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit...

Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

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Explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium, focusing upon the evidence of verse inscript...

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 ...

An extraordinary story of one family's torment, betrayal and perseverance in war time Amsterdam. War and Love is a fascinating and detailed memoir ...

Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in p...

Reducere. Xander's Story is a wonderfully vibrant picture book which guides children through a baseline understanding of surrogacy. Xander's journey begins i...

A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the acco...

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 ...

A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian R...

4th edition. Revised edition, with 200 new illustrations.

Reissue, previously titled }Art And Society In Italy 1350 - 1500{.

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...

Classic study of the condottiere of fifteenth-century Italy.

Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of...

This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five y...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Erin A. CechIllustration(s): 15 line drawings, 9 tablesNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Erin A. CechIllustration(s): 15 line drawings, 9 tablesNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2...

Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church HistoryAn overlooked aspect of the iconography of the A...

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...

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

Reducere. The Italian Renaissance marked a period of political and military turmoil. Many regional wars were fought between the states ruled by Milan, Venice...