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1	Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style more books like this by Professor Michael Baxandall add to wishlist An introduction to Italian painting in the 15th century, and the social history behind it. The book covers the structure of the picture trade and its economic basis through contracts, letters and accounts. The author also illustrates how art history can be used to give insights into social history, by showing how the visual skills and activities ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.55! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Michelangelo more books like this by Mike Venezia (Illustrator) add to wishlist This book provides an entertaining and humor ous introduction to the famous artist, Michelangelo. It incl udes excellent colour reproductions of the artist''s work. ' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.09! \| SVS
3	Painting in Italy, 1500-1600: Third Edition more books like this by S J Freedberg add to wishlist 'Art', declared Vasari in Lives of the Artists, has been reborn and reached perfection in our time'. Indeed the roster of great names in painting of the Cinquecento, which only begins with those of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, appears to justify this grand claim. Professor Freedberg here discusses the individual painters and analyses the ... see all copies from $2.94! new only from $13.16! \| SVS
4	Italian Renaissance Painting more books like this by James H Beck add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.00! \| first editions
5	Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition more books like this by Professor Michael Baxandall add to wishlist 'This handsomely illustrated book is an original attempt to make clear how much the art of the orators and the painters in the Renaissance had in common ...Extremely important for the history of art.' Neo-Latin News see all copies from $43.17! new only from $82.93! \| SVS
6	Portrait in the Renaissance more books like this by Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy add to wishlist This text shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated. The author describes the process by which Titian and other artists transformed the portrait from a record of appearance to an analysis of character. see all copies from $10.75! new only from $58.00! \| first editions
7	Italian Painters of the Renaissance more books like this by Bernard Berenson add to wishlist see all copies from $2.20! new only from $90.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Painting in Florence & Siena After the Black Death: The Arts, Religion & Society in the Mid-Fourteenth-Century more books like this by Millard Meiss add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! first editions
9	Raphael more books like this by Mike Venezia add to wishlist Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of actual paintings, give children a light yet realistic overview of each artist's life and style in these fun and educational books. see all copies from $3.45! new only from $3.45! \| SVS
10	Michelangelo, the painter. more books like this by Valerio Mariani add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.89! \| first editions
11	Clutius Botanical Watercolors more books like this by Claudia Swan add to wishlist Commissioned from an unknown artist by the Dutch pharmacist Theodorus Clutius as research material for doctors and herbalists - and later used by artists - the botanical watercolours illustrated in this book epitomize the Renaissance interest in and exploration of the natural world. They were considered lost for 40 years after World War II until ... see all copies from $55.00! new only from $165.00! \| first editions
12	The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance more books like this by John North add to wishlist This study provides a radical reinterpretation of Holbein's famous painting. The celebrated portrait of two French diplomats at the court of Henry VIII has usually been linked to the political and religious unrest of the day. John North shows that the painting has a very different, and previously undetected, central theme and many other meanings. ... see all copies from $3.73! new only from $6.98!
13	Painting in Renaissance Venice more books like this by Peter Humfrey add to wishlist This text presents a comprehensive account of painting in Venice, from Bellini and Titian to Tintoretto, from the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 16th century. The art is set against the background of religious, social and political conditions in Renaissance Italy. see all copies from $8.77! new only from $21.07! \| SVS
14	Raffaello more books like this by Stephanie Buck (Text by), Peter Hohenstatt (Text by) 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 includes a detailed and comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography for further study, and a glossary. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $17.73! \| first editions
15 view cover	Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery more books like this by Professor Jill Dunkerton, Ms. Dillian Gordon, Professor Susan Foister add to wishlist see all copies from $29.58! new only from $33.63! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting more books like this by Anita Albus add to wishlist Artist Anita Albus offers a critical analysis of medieval and Northern Renaissance oil paintings of the Netherlands. She illuminates the allegorical elements of several works, including Jan van Eyck's Madonna of Chancellor Rolin and Rogier van der Weyden's The Descent from the Cross. see all copies from $14.95! new only from $56.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Artistic Theory in Italy more books like this by Anthony Blunt add to wishlist This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but on the various artistic theories which influenced them or were expressed by them. Taking Alberti's treatises as his starting-point, Anthony Blunt traces the development of artistic theory from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.48! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Piero Della Francesca more books like this by Birgit Laskowski (Text by) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.99! new only from $22.88! \| first editions
19	The Enigma of Piero: Piero Della Francesca: The Baptism, the Arezzo Cycle, the Flagellation more books like this by Professor Carlo Ginzburg add to wishlist see all copies from $7.90! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
20	Light and Color in the Italian Renaissance Theory of Art Light and Color in the Italian Renaissance Theory of Art more books like this by Moshe Barasch add to wishlist see all copies from $51.76! new only from $59.97! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Madonna in Art (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) more books like this by Estelle M Hurll add to wishlist Estelle May Hurll (1863-1924) was the author of The Madonna in Art (1898), Raphael (1899), Jean Franois Millet (1900), Michelangelo (1900), Correggio (1901), Child-Life in Art (1901), The Bible Beautiful (1908), Sir Joshua Reynolds, Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century. "This little book is intended as a companion ... see all copies from $3.64! new only from $9.39! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The sixteenth-century Italian schools more books like this by Cecil Gould add to wishlist see all copies from $2.09! new only from $21.57! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Come, Take This Lute: A Quest for Identities in Italian Renaissance Portraiture more books like this by E H Ramsden add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Albrecht Dürer more books like this by Ernest Lloyd Raboff add to wishlist A biographical sketch of the German painter and printmaker accompanies fifteen color reproductions and critical interpretations of his works. see all copies from $6.40! new only from $99.00!
25 view cover	Arcadian cipher : The quest to crack the code of Christianity's greatest secret more books like this by Peter Blake, Paul S. Blezard add to wishlist Fascinated from an early age by the paintings of Poussin, Leonardo and other great masters, Peter Blake has watched as others have made guesses as to their meanings, even linking them to the mysteries surrounding the French village of Rennes-le-Chateau - at the core of the seminal "Holy Blood, Holy Grail". But from the recurrent geometrical themes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions

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