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  • On Painting

    by Leon Alberti ...
    Translated by Cecil Grayson ...
    Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting

    A New Translation and Critical Edition

    by Leon Battista Alberti, Rocco Sinisgalli ...
    Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Theogenius

    A Renaissance Dialogue on the Good Life

    by Leon Battista Alberti ...
    Translated by Timothy Kircher ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was a fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance polymath, whose creative, humanist energies in art, literature, and science remain influential today. This first English translation of his short but rich dialogue Theogenius introduces readers to one of the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance.Written in the Italian vernacular and infused with wit, philosophical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi's crucifix; and Michelangelo's painstaking work ... Read more

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  • Sister Queens

    The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile

    by Julia Fox ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine’s sister, Juana of Castile, wife of Philip of Burgundy and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is portrayed as “Juana the Mad,” whose ... Read more

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  • A World Lit Only by Fire

    The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

    by William Manchester ...
    An absorbing history of the Middle Ages from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion**.**From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester ... Read more

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  • Christendom Destroyed

    Europe 1517-1648

    by Mark Greengrass ...
    Series series The Penguin History of Europe
    **“The latest volume to appear in the Penguin History of Europe. Like its companion volumes, [Christendom Destroyed] is no breezy survey but a masterly synthesis of depth and breadth."*—*The Wall Street Journal“The political and religious conflicts of early modern Europe receive high-quality treatment from Greengrass.... an excellent addition to the new Penguin History of Europe.”—Financial Times* ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Wanning of Middle Ages

    A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    Translated by Frederik Jan Hopman ...
    The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga presents a richly detailed examination of European society in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, illuminating the profound cultural, social, and religious currents that shaped a transitional period. In this masterful study, Huizinga focuses on the powerful interplay between spiritual devotion, chivalric ideals, and evolving artistic ... Read more

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  • Legendary Explorers: The Life and Legacy of Marco Polo

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes quotes from The Travels of Marco Polo describing Kublai Khan and some of the things Marco Polo saw, including rhinoceros, crocodiles, coal, and more. *Explains how Marco Polo's travels influenced cartographers and subsequent explorers like Columbus. *Includes maps and pictures of important people and places in Marco Polo's life and travels. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. ... Read more

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    The Discovery of the Heliocentric Revolution

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
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  • The Memory of the People

    Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England

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