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  • 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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  • The Genius in the Design

    Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome

    "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

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  • Leonardo and the Last Supper

    by Ross King ...
    Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of ... Read more

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  • Michelangelo

    A Life in Six Masterpieces

    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

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  • Caravaggio

    A Life Sacred and Profane

    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year"This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review**Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s ... Read more

    $14.39 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

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

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  • Michelangelo

    His Epic Life

    At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser).For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic centre of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

    by Ross King ...
    From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Art

    The rebirth of beauty, science, and humanism

    The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Giovanni Bellini (Illustrated)

    Series Book 37 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Giovanni Bellini revolutionised Venetian painting, developing a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through his use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Bellini created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings, producing sumptuous artworks that were significant to the Italian Renaissance, especially for his pupils Giorgione and Titian. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital ... Read more

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  • The Montefeltro Conspiracy

    A Renaissance Mystery Decoded

    A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved.The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s classic work on take-no-prisoners politics, The Prince. The attempted ... Read more

    $6.99 USD