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  • The Image After

    by Andreas Beyer-Bowden ...
    Series Book 1 - The Loser Saga
    Months after a family tragedy, estranged siblings Alex and Carmen spend a fraught winter week circling one another in the aftermath. Insightful and self-aware yet reckless and self-destructive, brother and sister are bound together less by affection than by shared circumstances neither has fully reckoned with.Through extensive flashbacks and interior monologues, memory and identity intrude upon ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist

    by Andreas Beyer ...
    Series Book 40 - Renaissance Lives
    The art history public has long been both fascinated and repelled by the renowned Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. He was a murderer, thief, lover of both genders, servant and rival of popes and princes, as well as an ingenious artist. In his legendary autobiography, the Vita, Cellini describes his activities vividly and in lurid detail. Often, the most disturbing passages were dismissed as ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • Botticelli's Secret

    The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

    by Joseph Luzzi ...
    **One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year"A lively book.…[Luzzi] brilliantly sets the operatic stage of vibrant, violent Renaissance Florence and brings to life the characters who helped resurrect Botticelli." —Max Norman, Wall Street Journal**Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was ... Read more

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  • The Light of Italy

    The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

    by Jane Stevenson ...
    The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro.'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher'The perfect tour guide to the past' Literary Review'A fabulous merging of seductive design with bravura scholarship ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Michelangelo da Caravaggio

    The Rebel Who Painted with Light

    by Félix Witting, M.L. Patrizi ...
    After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592. There he started to paint with both realism and psychological analysis of the sitters. Caravaggio was as temperamental in his painting as in his wild life. As he also responded to prestigious Church commissions, his dramatic style and his realism were seen as unacceptable. Chiaroscuro had existed ... Read more

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  • Bernini

    by Howard Hibbard ...
    Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy. He has left his greatest mark on Rome where Papal patronage provided him with enormous architectural commissions. ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance

    by Joscelyn Godwin ...
    The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance recounts the almost untold story of how the rediscovery of the pagan, mythological imagination during the Renaissance brought a profound transformation to European culture. This highly illustrated book, available for the first time in paperback, shows that the pagan imagination existed side-by-side -- often uneasily -- with the official symbols, doctrines, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Young Michelangelo

    The Path to the Sistine—A Biography

    by John T. Spike ...
    In this biography, the author of the acclaimed Caravaggio examines the relationships that shaped Michelangelo's first thirty years.In this compelling account, renowned art historian John Spike paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest artists and the places and people—Lorenzo de' Medici, Leonardo, Machiavelli—that inspired and defined his early life and career. Spike's masterful text ... Read more

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  • Studies In Iconology

    Humanistic Themes In The Art Of The Renaissance

    by Erwin Panofsky ...
    In Studies in Iconology, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies. ... Read more

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  • Sandro Botticelli

    (Grove Art Essentials)

    by Charles Dempsey ...
    Series series Grove Art Essentials Series
    Sandro Botticelli, painter and draughtsman, was one of the most esteemed painters in Italy in his lifetime, enjoying the patronage of the leading families of Florence, summoned to take part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and commended by the great diplomatic, scholarly, and artistic leaders of his time. Lauded for his superb technique as a draughtsman and colorist and for his ... Read more

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  • Michelangelo

    by Romain Rolland ...
    The life of Michelangelo offers one of the most striking examples of the influence that a great man can have on his time. At the moment of his birth in the second half of the fifteenth century the serenity of Ghirlandajo and of Bramante illuminated Italian art. Florentine sculpture seemed about to languish away from an excess of grace in the delicate and meticulous art of Rossellino, Disiderio, ... Read more

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  • The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History

    by James Hall ...
    “Hall provides a lively cultural interpretation of the genre from the Middle Ages to today. . . . Rather than provide a series of ‘greatest hits,’ he is more concerned with the reasons why artists create self-portraits.” —The Weekly StandardThe self-portrait may be the visual genre most identified with our confessional era, but modern artists are far from the first to have explored its power and ... Read more

    $18.89 USD