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1	The Bed and the Throne: The Life of Isabella D'Este more books like this by George Richard Marek add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
2	The Art of Mantua: Power and Patronage in the Renaissance more books like this by Barbara Furlotti, Guido Rebecchini, A Lawrence Jenkens (Translator) add to wishlist This book traces the rich history of the northern Italian city of Mantua, from its mythic origins in Dante's Inferno, to its cultural heyday during the Renaissance under the patronage of the powerful Gonzaga family, to its eventual decline and annexation by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The fortunes of Mantua rose and fell with those of the ... see all copies from $40.13! new only from $53.03! \| first editions
3	The Princess of Mantua more books like this by Marie Ferranti, Dr. Andrew Brown (Translator) add to wishlist Winner of Grand Prix du Roman 2002, a prize awarded annually by Academie Francaise (the French counterpart of The Royal Society of Literature) Who is the real Barbara von Brandenburg, that plain woman who looks at us from Mantegna's masterful painting, The Gonzaga Family? Using historic facts and documentary references, Marie Ferranti takes us ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $3.18! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Painted Room more books like this by Christensen add to wishlist The lord of Mantua, Prince Lodovico, invites the eminent painter Andrea Mantegna to his palace to decorate one of the rooms. The painting is very slowly completed and the prince's secretary records its progress in his diary, which also features gossip about what is going on in the palace. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99!
5	Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1 more books like this by Iain Fenlon (Editor) add to wishlist Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age, from Tromboncino and Cara, via Jacquet of Mantua, to Wert, Palestrina, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Gastoldi, Rossi and Monteverdi. The remarkable achievements of composers under Gonzaga patronage, ... see all copies from $33.17! new only from $33.17! \| SVS
6	Isabella D'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539: A Study of the Renaissance more books like this by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady add to wishlist see all copies from $24.13! new only from $32.63!
7	Andrea Mantegna: Padua and Mantua more books like this by Mr. Keith Christiansen add to wishlist This is part of a magnificent series of books that illustrate Europe's major fresco cycle from the early 14th through the 17th centuries. Each volume included a detailed and comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography for further study, and a glossary. The quality of the reproductions make this series an extraordinary value at a ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $16.37! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Private Renaissance more books like this by Maria Bellonci, Maria Bellorci, William Weaver (Editor) add to wishlist A woman of prodigious energy and intellect, Isabella D'Este became Duchess of Mantua at the age of 16. Her court became a leading cultural center, peopled with the great artists and intellectuals of the time. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 2 more books like this by Iain Fenlon (Editor) add to wishlist This book is a companion volume to Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua I. The relationship between the volumes is not direct in the sense that specific references are made in volume I to specific features of the works in volume II. Rather, the present volume stands on its own as an anthology of compositions which could all be described ... see all copies from $24.90! new only from $28.22! \| SVS
10	Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua more books like this by Don Harran add to wishlist Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi has a biography fraught with difficult and often exciting questions ... see all copies from $46.27! new only from $46.27! \| SVS
11	The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella D'Este more books like this by Mr. Stephen Campbell add to wishlist The Renaissance studiolo was a space devoted in theory to private reading and contemplation, but at the Italian courts of the fifteenth century, it had become a space of luxury, as much devoted to displaying the taste and culture of its occupant as to studious withdrawal. The most famous studiolo of all was that of Isabella d'Este, marchioness of ... see all copies from $51.75! new only from $51.75! \| SVS
12	Our Accustomed Discourse on the Antique: Cesare Gonzaga & Gerolamo Garimberto, Two Renaissance Collectors of Grecoshroman Art more books like this by Clifford M Brown add to wishlist The documentation for the Garimberto and the Gonzaga collections consists of inventories, printed and manuscript descriptions, and a corpus of some 100 letters. This publication explores the documentation of these personal collections. More broadly, it places the men and their respective holdings i see all copies from $31.18! new only from $34.00!
13	Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy more books like this by Paul V Murphy add to wishlist Raised in the splendid court of Mantua, wealthy even by the standards of Renaissance cardinals, the patron of artists and scholars, the father of numerous children, an active participant in Italian and European politics as regent of the Duchy of Mantua, Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga (1505-1563) was in many respects a typical Renaissance prelate from a ... see all copies from $64.76! new only from $64.76! \| SVS
14	Paul J. Stankard more books like this by Ulysses Grant Dietz, John Bigelow Taylor (Photographer) add to wishlist This handsome book documents the glass art of Paul Stankard, the prominent glass paperweight artist. see all copies from $72.99! new only from $75.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	First lady of the Renaissance; a biography of Isabella d'Este. more books like this by Edith Patterson Meyer add to wishlist see all copies from $5.95! first editions
16	Palazzo del Te in Mantua: Images of Love and Politics more books like this by Egon Verheyen add to wishlist see all copies from $100.00!
17 view cover	Salamone Rossi, Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua more books like this by Don Harrd'an, Don Harran add to wishlist Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1628) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. In the field of instrumental music, he established the trio sonata as a standard combination of voices for 17th-century chamber music and developed the sonata into a ... see all copies from $87.75! new only from $170.78!
18	The Paintings in the Studiolo of Isabella D'Este at Mantua more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $125.00!
19 view cover	The Gonzaga of Mantua and Pisanello's Arthurian Frescoes more books like this by Joanna Woods-Marsden add to wishlist "This book is the first attempt fully to gauge Pisanellos significance as an artist, and it is remarkably successful in doing this. It brings one closer than any earlier publication to the climate of fifteenth-century court art and to the creative intentions of a great court artist." --Sir John Pope-Hennessy, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Fine ... see all copies from $85.00!
20	Mantua. more books like this by Ferrucio Canali add to wishlist Mantua is an artistic and architectural treasure house. This is a guide and souvenir to all that can be seen there. With pictures and text, it follows a series of itineraries to ensure that nothing is missed. see all copies from $9.99! new only from $9.99!
21	The prince's person more books like this by Roger Peyrefitte add to wishlist see all copies from $3.80! first editions \| SVS
22	A prince of Mantua; the life and times of Vincenzo Gonzaga. more books like this by Maria Bellonci add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
23 view cover	Mantova E Urbino: Isabella D'Este Ed Elisabetta Gonzaga Nelle Relazioni Famigliari (1893) more books like this by Alessandro Luzio, Rodolfo Renier add to wishlist see all copies from $22.96! new only from $22.96! \| SVS
24	Palazzo Te in Mantua more books like this by Amedeo Belluzzi add to wishlist Unique and renowned for the complexity of its layout and its historical context, Pallazzo Te is emblematic of a multiform artist like Giulio Romano. Text in Italian. see all copies from $750.00! new only from $750.00!
25	The Gonzaga--lords of Mantua more books like this by Selwyn Brinton add to wishlist see all copies from $40.41!

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