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  • Rewriting Alberti

    by Peter Eisenman, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mario Carpo, Daniel Sherer ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.Much has been written about Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s mantra of part-to-whole as one of the continuing conditions of architecture. While this underlying thesis has often been repeated in the annals of architectural history ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Science of Leonardo

    Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

    by Fritjof Capra ...
    Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs for rebuilding Milan, employing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today.Examining themes such as regional identities, political disunity, and the role of the national language, they also cover a wide range of authors and works ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    An Untraceable Life

    by Stephen J. Campbell ...
    How our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern mythLeonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius, entrepreneur, celebrity artist, outsider. ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • Vermeer's Family Secrets

    Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice

    by Benjamin Binstock ...
    Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the common claim that little is known of his biography, there is actually an ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edited by Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

    Edited by Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow ...
    Series Book 29 - Blackwell Companions to Art History
    A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • Living Thought

    The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book explores the reasons for its growing popularity, its distinguishing traits, and why people are turning to these authors for answers to real-world issues and problems. The approach he takes, in line with the keen historical consciousness of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Federico Fellini

    Painting in Film, Painting on Film

    by Hava Aldouby ...
    Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.” In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini’s films as sequences of “pictures” that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir of visual imagery. Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Reactionary Mathematics

    A Genealogy of Purity

    by Massimo Mazzotti ...
    A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena.The nineteenth century opened with a major shift in European mathematics, and in the Kingdom of Naples, this occurred earlier than elsewhere. Between 1790 and 1830 its leading scientific institutions rejected as untrustworthy the "very modern ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

    by Massimo Mazzotti ...
    Series Book 2 - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics
    The fascinating true story of mathematician Maria Agnesi.She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Methodologies of Art

    An Introduction

    by Laurie Schneider Adams ...
    Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its ... Read more

    $66.99 USD