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The Shadow Drawing - How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint (Paperback): Francesca Fiorani The Shadow Drawing - How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint (Paperback)
Francesca Fiorani
R554 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R87 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Renaissance Fun - The Machines Behind the Scenes (Paperback): Philip Steadman Renaissance Fun - The Machines Behind the Scenes (Paperback)
Philip Steadman
R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy (Hardcover, New Ed): Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
R3,939 Discovery Miles 39 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors in early modern Italy confronted such challenges as procurement of materials, their costs, shipping and transportation issues, and technical problems of materials, along with the meanings of the usage, hierarchies of materials, and processes of material acquisition and production. Contributors also explore the implications of these facets in terms of the intended and perceived meaning(s) for the viewer, patron, and/or artist. A highlight of the collection is the epilogue, an interview with a contemporary artist of large-scale stone sculpture, which reveals the similar challenges sculptors still encounter today as they procure, manufacture and transport their works.

Art and its Observers (B&W) (Paperback): Patricia Emison Art and its Observers (B&W) (Paperback)
Patricia Emison
R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Giorgione's Ambiguity (Hardcover): Tom Nichols Giorgione's Ambiguity (Hardcover)
Tom Nichols
R565 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twenty-five works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as The Three Philosophers and The Tempest remain compellingly elusive, seeming to deny the viewer the possibility of interpreting their meaning. Tom Nichols argues that this visual elusiveness was essential to Giorgione's sensual approach and that ambiguity is the defining quality of his art. Through detailed discussions of all Giorgione's works, Nichols shows that by abandoning the more intellectual tendencies of much Renaissance art, Giorgione made the world and its meanings appear always more inscrutable.

Voynich Manuscript - An Illustrated Guide to the Perplexing Puzzles (The True History of the Voynich Manuscript and Similar... Voynich Manuscript - An Illustrated Guide to the Perplexing Puzzles (The True History of the Voynich Manuscript and Similar Works) (Paperback)
Lillie Berube
R492 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R92 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture (Ca. 1410-1530) (English, Italian, Latin, Hardcover): Anne Markham Schulz The History of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture (Ca. 1410-1530) (English, Italian, Latin, Hardcover)
Anne Markham Schulz
R7,938 Discovery Miles 79 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words (Hardcover, Festschrift): Robert Williams Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words (Hardcover, Festschrift)
Robert Williams
R3,918 Discovery Miles 39 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'The most important art historian of his generation' is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007), Professor of the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Baxandall's work had a transformative effect on the study of European Renaissance and eighteenth-century art, and contributed to a complex transition in the aims and methods of art history in general during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. While influential, he was also an especially subtle and independent thinker - occasionally a controversial one - and many of the implications of his work have yet to be fully understood and assimilated. This collection of 10 essays endeavors to assess the nature of Baxandall's achievement, and in particular to address the issue of the challenges it offers to the practice of art history today. This volume provides the most comprehensive assessment of Baxandall's work to date, while drawing upon the archive of Baxandall papers recently deposited at the Cambridge University Library and the Warburg Institute.

The Mapmakers' World - A Cultural History of the European World Map (Hardcover): Juha Nurminen The Mapmakers' World - A Cultural History of the European World Map (Hardcover)
Juha Nurminen; Edited by Peter Barber; Marjo Nurminen 1
R1,642 R1,270 Discovery Miles 12 700 Save R372 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Art of the Poor - The Aesthetic Material Culture of the Lower Classes in Europe 1300-1600 (Paperback): Rembrandt Duits The Art of the Poor - The Aesthetic Material Culture of the Lower Classes in Europe 1300-1600 (Paperback)
Rembrandt Duits
R1,067 Discovery Miles 10 670 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The history of art in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance has generally been written as a story of elites: bankers, noblemen, kings, cardinals, and popes and their artistic interests and commissions. Recent decades have seen attempts to recast the story in terms of material culture, but the focus seems to remain on the upper strata of society. In his inclusive analysis of art from 1300 to 1600, Rembrandt Duits rectifies this. Bringing together thought-provoking ideas from art historians, historians, anthropologists and museum curators, The Art of the Poor examines the role of art in the lower social classes of Europe and explores how this influences our understanding of medieval and early modern society. Introducing new themes and raising innovative research questions through a series of thematically grouped short case studies, this book gives impetus to a new field on the cusp of art history, social history, urban archaeology, and historical anthropology. In doing so, this important study helps us re-assess the very concept of ‘art’ and its function in society.

Leonardo Pop-ups (Hardcover): Courtney Watson McCarthy Leonardo Pop-ups (Hardcover)
Courtney Watson McCarthy
R900 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R497 (55%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term 'Renaissance man'. Today he remains best known for his art, including two paintings that remain among the world's most famous and admired, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. This book features six meticulously crafted pop-ups of his most famous works: Self portrait; Annunciation; Ornithopter; Virgin & Child; Architecture - an overview of his drawings and designs; and Vitruvian Man.

A Kingdom of Images (Hardcover): Peter Furhing A Kingdom of Images (Hardcover)
Peter Furhing
R2,126 Discovery Miles 21 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book includes a rich and fascinating consideration of the golden age of French printmaking. Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV's reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries.A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.

Treasured Possessions - From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Hardcover): Dr Melissa Calaresu, Victoria Avery Treasured Possessions - From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Dr Melissa Calaresu, Victoria Avery
R1,297 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R235 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the significance of beautiful and engaging objects - chosen, acquired, personalised and treasured - to the people who once owned them. With over 300 works discussed, it takes us on a dazzling visual adventure through the decorative arts, from Renaissance luxuries wrought in glass, bronze and maiolica to the elaborate tablewares and personal adornments available to shoppers in the Age of Enlightenment. En route the authors consider the impact of global trade on European habits and expectations: the glamour of the Eastern exotic, the ubiquity of New World products like chocolate and sugar, and the obsession with Chinoiserie decoration. They ask what decorative objects meant to their owners before the age of industrial mass production, and explore how technological innovation and the proliferation of goods from the sixteenth century onwards transformed the attitude of Europeans to their personal possessions. Illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs, many unfamiliar and hitherto unseen gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Applied Arts collection are here published for the first time.

The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Paperback): John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Paperback)
John Ruskin
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Verona and Other Lectures (Paperback): John Ruskin Verona and Other Lectures (Paperback)
John Ruskin; Created by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood, Bruce 1870-1957 Rogers
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Town and Country 1517 - 1550 - Scenes of Everyday Life in Detail from Geisberg's German Single Sheet Woodcuts (Paperback):... Town and Country 1517 - 1550 - Scenes of Everyday Life in Detail from Geisberg's German Single Sheet Woodcuts (Paperback)
Marion McNealy; As told to Max Geisberg
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Giovanni Bellini's Dudley Madonna (Paperback): Antonio Mazzotta Giovanni Bellini's Dudley Madonna (Paperback)
Antonio Mazzotta
R627 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R127 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Virgin Mary rises up like a giant Tower of Babel in a close-up view, separated from us by a slender railing along which runs the painter's signature. The Virgin appears to be sitting on a marble slab, slightly raised, and her right shoulder is thrust forward to show us her nude son. Madonna and Child, also known as 'Dudley Madonna', was painted in c. 1508 by Giovanni Bellini (Venice, c. 1430-1516), one of the most celebrated of Italian artists. This book tells the story of the painting, its painter and its provenance - the journey from Bellini's 16th-century Venice to Dudley's 19th-century London - and the context in which it was created, and later collected. The painting was probably acquired in Bologna by John William Ward (1781-1833), who in 1827 became the 1st Earl of Dudley. He was described by his contemporaries as a cultured and educated man, but also, especially in his later years, tending to madness. The Dudley collection was one of the most outstanding in 19th-century England. The years 1505-10 were crucial ones in Giovanni Bellini's career, and this book examines anew the part he played in Venetian High Renaissance painting - his influence upon and response to the upcoming Giorgione, Titian and Sebastiano del Piombo; it looks in particular at the importance of the visit to the Venice of the Florentine Fra Bartolommeo in 1508. Antonio Mazzotta was Pidem Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery, London, between 2008 and 2010, and he curated the exhibition, Titian's First Masterpiece: The Flight into Egypt, at the National Gallery, London, 4 April - 19 August 2012. The Virgin Mary rises up like a giant Tower of Babel in a close-up view, separated from us by a slender railing along which runs the painter's signature. The Virgin appears to be sitting on a marble slab, slightly raised, and her right shoulder is thrust forward to show us her nude son. The Madonna and Child, also known as 'Dudley Madonna', was painted in c. 1508 by Giovanni Bellini (Venice, c. 1430-1516), one of the most celebrated of Italian artists. Recognised as an important composition by Bellini in the early 20th century, for a hundred years until its sale at auction in 2010 this picture had hardly ever been seen. This book places the painting within Bellini's career and development even though he was over 75 years old when he painted it. Bellini was extraordinarily sensitive to the new generation of High Renaissance artists, responding instantly to new ideas. The publication also discusses the earlier critical fortune of the painting, explaining how it was kept out of the limelight for so long when it is clearly an autograph Bellini. The years 1505-10 were crucial ones in Giovanni Bellini's career, and this publication examines anew the part he played in Venetian High Renaissance painting, his influence upon and response to the upcoming Giorgione, Titian and Sebastiano del Piombo. It looks in particular at the importance of the visit to the Venice of the Florentine Fra Bartolommeo in 1508, a key figure in early 16th-century Florence, who came with a wealth of important new ideas to share and disseminate. His influence on Bellini is most obviously evident in the Madonna's - for him - comparatively oblique pose. It is not known how and when the painting came from Italy to England but it is very likely that is was acquired in Bologna by John William Ward (1781-1833) who, in 1827, became the 1st Earl of Dudley. Described by his contemporaries as a cultured and educated man, he (and later his nephew William Ward) assembled one of the most outstanding collections in 19th-century England but, although talented, tended to madness especially in his later years. The collection was broken up at the end of the 19th century and the painting, having been attributed to the obscure Rocco Marconi by Berenson, was kept in a private collection in a country house in Wiltshire.

Giovanni Bellini - Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice (Hardcover): Davide Gasparotto Giovanni Bellini - Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice (Hardcover)
Davide Gasparotto
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Praised by Albrecht Du rer as being "the best in painting," Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430-1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. Drawing from a selection of masterpieces that span Bellini's long and successful career, this exhibition catalogue focuses on the main function of landscape in his oeuvre: to enhance the meditational nature of paintings intended for the private devotion of intellectually sophisticated, elite patrons. The subtle doctrinal content of Bellini's work-the isolated crucifix in a landscape, the "sacred conversation," the image of Saint Jerome in the wilderness-is always infused with his instinct for natural representation, resulting in extremely personal interpretations of religious subjects immersed in landscapes where the real and the symbolic are inextricably intertwined.This volume includes a biography of the artist,essays by leading authorities in the field explicating thethemes of the J. Paul Getty Museum's exhibition, anddetailed discussions and glorious reproductions of the twelve works in the exhibition, including their history and provenance, function, iconography, chronology, and style.

Duccio to Leonardo - Renaissance Painting 1250-1500 (Paperback): Simona Di Nepi Duccio to Leonardo - Renaissance Painting 1250-1500 (Paperback)
Simona Di Nepi
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallery's display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. Duccio to Leonardo focuses on Italian masterpieces made between 1250 and 1500, including highlights such as Duccio's Annunciation, Botticelli's Venus and Mars, and Leonardo's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist. It begins with a short introduction on the formation of the collection, before discussing each of the chosen works. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press

Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, Volumes 1 and 2 (Hardcover, New): Machtelt Israels, Louis A. Waldman Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, Volumes 1 and 2 (Hardcover, New)
Machtelt Israels, Louis A. Waldman
R2,873 R2,430 Discovery Miles 24 300 Save R443 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 177 essays in these two richly illustrated volumes represent the cutting edge of Italian Renaissance scholarship in nearly every one of its fields and were gathered to honor Joseph Connors, Director of Villa I Tatti from 2002 to 2010. Demonstrating I Tatti's pivotal role as the world's leading center for Italian Renaissance studies, the essays cover all the branches of art history, as well as many aspects of political, economic, and social history, literature, and music, from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. Appropriately, the volumes also include a selection of contributions devoted to Bernard Berenson and his legacy as both a collector and a scholar. Each of the authors-a group representing dozens of countries-was a Fellow or associate of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies during the eight years in which Connors served as Director.

An Intimate Art (Paperback): Sandra Hindman, Ariane Bergeron-Foote An Intimate Art (Paperback)
Sandra Hindman, Ariane Bergeron-Foote
R947 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R199 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Books of Hours are probably the most famous of all medieval illuminated manuscripts. Presented here are 12 Books of Hours that date from the origins of the genre in the 13th century to its eclipse in the 16th century. Examples come from France, Italy and the Southern and Northern Netherlands and are by many notable artists, including Pietro da Pavia, Belbello da Pavia, the Masters of Zweder van Culenburg, the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, Willem Vrelant, Guillaume tile Roy and Jean Poyer. Some are richly illustrated; others are more modest. Each manuscript is wholly unique, offering a captivating glimpse into the lives and preoccupations of their owners, the concerns and contributions of their illuminators. The introduction by Christopher de Hamel, Donnelley Fellow Librarian at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, underscores the intimacy'of Books of Hours as a genre. A team of distinguished scholars have contributed to the essays, bringing up-to-date research to the project that helps situate each manuscript in the most recent scholarship. Comparative photographs of manuscripts in institutions place these twelve Horae in their broader artistic and cultural contexts. Accompanying an exhibition held at Les Enluminures, New York, 2-25 May 2012

Willem Van Den Blocke - A Sculptor of the Low Countries in the Baltic Region (Hardcover): Franciszek Skibinski Willem Van Den Blocke - A Sculptor of the Low Countries in the Baltic Region (Hardcover)
Franciszek Skibinski
R4,755 Discovery Miles 47 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Leonardo's Anatomical Drawings (Paperback): Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo's Anatomical Drawings (Paperback)
Leonardo Da Vinci
R245 R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Save R39 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using scientific methods in his investigations of the human body -- the first ever by an artist -- da Vinci was able to produce remarkably accurate depictions of the "ideal" human figure. This exceptional collection reprints 59 of his sketches of the skeleton, skull, upper and lower extremities, human embryos, and other subjects.

Spirited Prospect - A Portable History of Western Art from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition):... Spirited Prospect - A Portable History of Western Art from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
David D. Nolta, Charles a Stigliano
R2,562 Discovery Miles 25 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Spirited Prospect: A Portable History of Western Art from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era is a lively, scholarly survey of the great artists, works, and movements that make up the history of Western art. Within the text, important questions are addressed: What is art, and who is an artist? What is the West, and what is the Canon? Is the Western Canon closed or exclusionary? Why is it more important than ever for individuals to engage and understand it? Readers are escorted on a concise, chronological tour of Western visual culture, beginning with the first art produced before written history. They learn about the great ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Italy; the advent of Christianity and its manifestations in Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art; and the fragmentation of old traditions and the proliferation of new artistic choices that characterize the Enlightenment and the Modern Era. The revised second edition features improved formatting, juxtaposition, sizing, and spacing of images throughout. Spirited Prospect is an ideal textbook for introductory courses in the history of art, as well as courses in studio art and Western civilization at all levels.

Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art - The Influence of Marcia Hall (Hardcover, New Ed): Arthur J. DiFuria, Ian... Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art - The Influence of Marcia Hall (Hardcover, New Ed)
Arthur J. DiFuria, Ian Verstegen
R2,802 Discovery Miles 28 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The essays in Space, Image and Reform in Early Modern Art build on Marcia Hall's seminal contributions in several categories crucial for Renaissance studies, especially the spatiality of the church interior, the altarpiece's facture and affectivity, the notion of artistic style, and the controversy over images in the era of Counter Reform. Accruing the advantage of critical engagement with a single paradigm, this volume better assesses its applicability and range. The book works cumulatively to provide blocks of theoretical and empirical research on issues spanning the function and role of images in their contexts over two centuries. Relating Hall's investigations of Renaissance art to new fields, Space, Image and Reform expands the ideas at the center of her work further back in time, further afield, and deeper into familiar topics, thus achieving a cohesion not usually seen in edited volumes honoring a single scholar.

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