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  • Bernini

    His Life and His Rome

    by Franco Mormando ...
    A biography of the celebrated Italian artist and his influence on the Baroque style that defines and immortalizes Rome.Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Piety and Plague

    From Byzantium to the Baroque

    Edited by Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

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  • The Genius in the Design

    Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome

    by Jake Morrissey ...
    "The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography." — BooklistThe rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michelangelo

    A Life in Six Masterpieces

    by Miles J. Unger ...
    This is the life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces: “The one indispensable guide for encountering Michelangelo on his home turf” (The Dallas Morning News).Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture, a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Medici

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Series series Italian Histories
    A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Renaissance

    The Story of Civilization, Volume V

    by Will Durant ...
    Series series The Story of Civilization
    The Story of Civilization, Volume V: A history of civilization in Italy from 1304-1576. This is the fifth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Magnifico

    The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

    by Miles J. Unger ...
    Series series An Italian Renaissance History
    A vividly colorful portrait of one of the greatest and most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, Lorenzo de' Medici, focusing on his role as a brilliant—sometimes ruthless—statesman who was responsible for the artistic flowering of Florence, the city where the Renaissance first blossomed.Lorenzo de' Medici—a leading statesman, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age, a true ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Bookseller of Florence

    The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

    by Ross King ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome captures the Renaissance spirit in this biography of "the king of the world's booksellers."During the Renaissance, Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world.At the heart ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Michelangelo, God's Architect

    The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

    by William E. Wallace ...
    The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades—and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Basilica

    The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's

    by R. A. Scotti ...
    In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peter's Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two tumultuous centuries, challenge the greatest Renaissance masters—Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante—and enrage Martin Luther. By the time it was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Renaissance

    A Short History

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Series Book 1 - Modern Library Chronicles
    The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization; and, of course, producing the most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Titian

    His Life

    by Sheila Hale ...
    An "excellent" biography of the Renaissance artist, drawing on contemporary accounts and recent art historical research & scholarship ( Booklist).Born in the mountains above Venice in the late fifteenth century, Tiziano Vecellio—or Titian—was the greatest painter of the Venetian High Renaissance. A poetic visionary and a technical master of oils, he painted everything, from frescoes and grand ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus