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“amanda wunder”

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  • Baroque Seville

    Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis

    by Amanda Wunder ...
    Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens.Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Lost Painting

    The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

    by Jonathan Harr ...
    Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Shadows

    The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

    by E. H. Gombrich, Neil MacGregor ...
    In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world’s foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented—or ignored—by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist, and Surrealist artists exploited the device of the cast shadow ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Claude Lorrain and artworks

    by Sergei Daniel ...
    Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain was neither a great man nor a lofty spirit like Poussin. His genius cannot, however, be denied and he was, like Poussin, a profoundly original inventor within the limitations of a classical ideal. He too spent most of his life in Rome though the art he created was not specifically Italian, but French. For more than two centuries afterwards everyone in France ... Read more

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  • Edward Burne-Jones

    by Cosmo Monkhouse ...
    Famed poet and critic Cosmo Monkhouse discusses the works of Edward Burne-Jones, artist in oil and stained glass who is closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • Francisco De Goya

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series TAJ Mini Books
    The greatest artist of the 18th century, Francisco de Goya began his career as an apprentice to a local artist where one of his jobs was adding draperies and modesty items to nude figures in religious paintings; for this he was titled “Reviser of Indecent Paintings.” But by the age of 40, Goya had established himself as a leading Spanish artist. Goya simultaneously pursued a number of disparate ... Read more

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  • Peter Paul Rubens and the Counter-Reformation Crisis of the Beati moderni

    by Ruth S. Noyes ...
    Series series Sanctity in Global Perspective
    Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints - or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called - by the Jesuits and Oratorians in the new environment of increased strictures and censorship that developed after the Council of Trent with respect to legal canonization procedures and cultic devotion to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Federico Barocci

    Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

    Edited by Judith W. Mann ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612), 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation, Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman, and the first Italian artist to incorporate extensive color into his drawings. The purpose of this volume is to offer new insights into Barocci’s ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • John Singer Sargent and His Muse

    Painting Love and Loss

    by Daniel Williman, Karen Corsano ...
    This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings created between 1906 and 1912, John Singer Sargent documented the idyllic teenage summers of Rose-Marie and his own ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Framing Majismo

    Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain

    by Tara Zanardi ...
    Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish, majismoconferred on Spanish “citizens” the pictorial ideal of a shared national ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Toledo Cathedral

    Building Histories in Medieval Castile

    by Tom Nickson ...
    Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral’s art and architecture.Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Provisional

    Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France

    by Richard Taws ...
    In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that few large-scale artworks or permanent monuments to the Revolution’s memory were completed. On the contrary, visual practice in revolutionary France was characterized by the production and circulation of a range of transitional, provisional, ephemeral, ... Read more

    $30.59 USD