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  • Rome

    An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

    by Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof ...
    Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Exploring da Vinci’s Last Supper

    by Catherine McGrew Jaime ...
    How did Leonardo paint his Last Supper mural?Why is it so famous?Why is it in such bad shape?This short e-book attempts to give the reader a look at those questions and numerous other ones. A great intro those who want "just a little bit more" on this intriguing topic. ... Read more

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  • The Last Trojan Hero

    A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

    by Philip Hardie ...
    “I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Global Interests

    Renaissance Art between East and West

    by Lisa Jardine, Jerry Brotton ...
    Series series Picturing History
    In this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the years 1450 to 1550. Looking outwards for confirmation of who they were and of what defined them as ‘civilized’, Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Noisy Renaissance

    Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

    by Niall Atkinson ...
    From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.Analyzing a range of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Frame in Classical Art

    A Cultural History

    Edited by Verity Platt, Michael Squire ...
    The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • Medusa's Gaze

    The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese

    by Marina Belozerskaya ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    The Tazza Farnese is one of the most admired objects from classical antiquity. A libation bowl carved from banded agate, it features Medusa's head on its outside and, inside, an assembly of Egyptian gods. For more than two millennia, these radiant figures have mesmerized emperors and artists, popes and thieves, merchants and museum goers. In this, the first book-length account of this renowned ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Day the Renaissance Was Saved

    The Battle of Anghiari and da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece

    by Niccolo Capponi ...
    Translated by Andre Naffis-Sahely ...
    It was a battle that change the course of history, and was immortalized in a massive painting by Leonardo da Vinci that was thought lost for centuries . . . until now.On a sweltering day in June 1440, near the Tuscan town of Anghiari, the simmering conflict among Italy’s principal powers exploded into a battle whereby Florence and the papal States joined with Venice to defeat the previously ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Under the Hammer

    Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition

    by James Simpson ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm. This book argues instead that iconoclasm is a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture

    Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC–AD 250

    by Zahra Newby ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of Greek myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public, domestic and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Michelangelo's David

    Florentine History and Civic Identity

    by John T. Paoletti ...
    This book takes a new look at the interpretations of, and the historical information surrounding, Michelangelo's David. New documentary materials discovered by Rolf Bagemihl add to the early history of the stone block that became the David and provide an identity for the painted terracotta colossus that stood on the cathedral buttresses for which Michelangelo's statue was to be a companion. The ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • The Framing of Sacred Space

    The Canopy and the Byzantine Church

    by Jelena Bogdanovic ...
    The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches. Centrally planned columnar structures--typically comprised of four columns and a roof--canopies had a critical role in the modular processes of church design, from actual church furnishings in the shape of a canopy to the church's structural core. As ... Read more

    $62.99 USD