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Jeffrey Ruda
[Hardcover 1999]
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Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 -- 69) is one of the greatest artists of the early Renaissance in Italy. A pioneer of psychological realism, he developed unique and daring means of representation, discarding medieval traditions about the role of colour in painting. His intensely personal, richly expressive characters are a... more
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Martin Kemp
[Paperback 2007]
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"This book-by the leading Leonardo scholar of this generation, one whose own intellectual range comes closest to matching that of the Renaissance master himself-offers a genuinely new take on Leonardo da Vinci. Its text provides the great pleasure of simultaneously comprising close readings of the drawings themselves and a major,... more
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Jacob Burckhardt ,
S G Middlemore ,
Peter Burke
[Paperback 1990]
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Published in 1860, Burckhardt's great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived humanism; of fierce tensions between church and empire;... more
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Jean Pierre Mohen ,
Michel Menu ,
Bruno Mottin
[Hardcover 2006]
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Applying the cutting-edge forensic techniques of television's "CSI" to the world's most famous painting yields a fresh look at how Leonardo's masterwork was constructed.... more
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William E Wallace
[Hardbound 2008]
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Diane Cole Ahl
[Hardcover]
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Alain Gruber ,
John Goodman
[Hardbound 1994]
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David Alan Brown ,
Mauro Lucco ,
Peter Humfrey
[Hardcover 1997]
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Hailed as the greatest Venetian painter after Titian, Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556) is known for a delightfully idiosyncratic artistic vision that has special appeal for 20th-century sensibilities. The authors draw on a large number of original documents, including Lotto's will, letters, and meticulously kept account books. The volume also describes and... more
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Kathleen Kuiper
[Library binding 2010]
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Sara Elliott ,
Keith Roberts
[Paperback 1998]
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The series has always been highly regarded for its insight and authority, providing an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each volume contains an introductory essay, forty-eight full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white.... more
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Leonardo Da Vinci ,
H Anna Suh
[Paperback 2009]
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A compilation of da Vinci's most fascinating studies, this monumental volume demystifies his insights and clearly illustrates his ideas, experiments, and observations with hundreds of his original sketches, line drawings, and paintings.... more
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Anthony Hughes
[Paperback 1997]
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A legend within his own lifetime, Michelangelo has been almost universally admired in the centuries since his death. Anthony Hughes employs the latest evidence from research and restoration projects to take a fresh look at what Michelangelo was and what he has become. The book sets the artist firmly within... more
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Giorgio Vasari ,
George Bull
[Paperback 1988]
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Translation of: Vite de' piu eccellenti architetti, pittori et scultori italiani. "This translation first published as 'Lives of the artists,' 1965"--T.p. vers These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance,"... more
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Leonardo Da Vinci ,
Thereza Wells ,
Martin Kemp
[Paperback 2008]
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Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water... more
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Geraldine A Johnson
[Paperback 2005]
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Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supper fresco and the monumental marble statue of David, are familiar symbols of the Renaissance. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their original beholders have viewed these... more
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Paul Williamson ,
Peta Motture
[Hardcover 2007]
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This beautiful book accompanies a traveling exhibition of around 30 major masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museums outstanding holdings of European art from the period 3001600. It includes superb examples of sculpture, metalwork, ceramics, and glass. The book offers a unique opportunity to set in context such exceptional works... more
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Sherwin B Nuland
[Paperback 2005]
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National Book Award winner Nuland "distills one of the greatest minds ever into its pure essence . . . truly awe-inspiring" ("Time"). Illustrations.... more
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Gauvin Alexander Bailey
[Paperback 2009]
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Between Renaissance and Baroque is a stunning achievement - the first book to be written about the original painting commissions of the Jesuits in Rome. Offering a uniquely comprehensive and comparative analysis of the paintings and stuccoes whi... more
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Frank Zollner
[Hardcover]
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Stories from classical antiquity and compelling new interpretations shed a fascinating light on Botticelli's allegorical and mythological paintings.... more
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Susan Foister
[Paperback 2004]
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This beautiful volume, companion to the earlier, highly regarded "Giotto to Durer, "is a guide to the sixteenth-century paintings of London's National Gallery. It examines the finest works of such artists as Holbein, Raphael, Cranach, Titian, Gossaert, an... more
