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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style more books like this

by Professor Michael Baxandall

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 ...

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo more books like this

by Mike Venezia (Illustrator)

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. '

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Painting in Italy, 1500-1600: Third Edition

Painting in Italy, 1500-1600: Third Edition more books like this

by S J Freedberg

'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 ...

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Italian Renaissance Painting

Italian Renaissance Painting more books like this

by James H Beck

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Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition

Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition more books like this

by Professor Michael Baxandall

'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

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Portrait in the Renaissance

Portrait in the Renaissance more books like this

by Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy

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.

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Italian Painters of the Renaissance more books like this

by Bernard Berenson

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Painting in Florence & Siena After the Black Death: The Arts, Religion & Society in the Mid-Fourteenth-Century more books like this

by Millard Meiss

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Raphael

Raphael more books like this

by Mike Venezia

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.

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Michelangelo, the painter. more books like this

by Valerio Mariani

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Clutius Botanical Watercolors

Clutius Botanical Watercolors more books like this

by Claudia Swan

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 ...

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The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance

The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance more books like this

by John North

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. ...

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Painting in Renaissance Venice

Painting in Renaissance Venice more books like this

by Peter Humfrey

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.

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Raffaello more books like this

by Stephanie Buck (Text by), Peter Hohenstatt (Text by)

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.

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Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery more books like this

by Professor Jill Dunkerton, Ms. Dillian Gordon, Professor Susan Foister

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The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting more books like this

by Anita Albus

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.

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Artistic Theory in Italy more books like this

by Anthony Blunt

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 ...

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Piero Della Francesca more books like this

by Birgit Laskowski (Text by)

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The Enigma of Piero: Piero Della Francesca: The Baptism, the Arezzo Cycle, the Flagellation more books like this

by Professor Carlo Ginzburg

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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

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The Madonna in Art (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) more books like this

by Estelle M Hurll

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 ...

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The sixteenth-century Italian schools more books like this

by Cecil Gould

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Come, Take This Lute: A Quest for Identities in Italian Renaissance Portraiture more books like this

by E H Ramsden

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Albrecht Dürer more books like this

by Ernest Lloyd Raboff

A biographical sketch of the German painter and printmaker accompanies fifteen color reproductions and critical interpretations of his works.

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Arcadian cipher : The quest to crack the code of Christianity's greatest secret more books like this

by Peter Blake, Paul S. Blezard

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 ...

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