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Leonardo - The Ultimate Secret (Paperback): Giovanni Pala Leonardo - The Ultimate Secret (Paperback)
Giovanni Pala
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fluctuating Alliances - Art, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Modern Era (Hardcover): Pilar Diez Del Corral Corredoira Fluctuating Alliances - Art, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Modern Era (Hardcover)
Pilar Diez Del Corral Corredoira
R1,079 Discovery Miles 10 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What was the role of art in the context of rapidly changing political alliances of the early modern period? The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume explore this question from the perspectives of "War and Peace," "Jesuits and Diplomacy," "Negotiating with Faith," and "Court and Diplomatic Celebrations". Special attention is paid to those art genres that were suitable for easy distribution due to their reproducibility, such as medals and prints. But also paintings, tombs and ephemeral festivities like fireworks served the manifestation of claims to power. The exemplary analyses provide a broad view of the political dimensions of early modern transcultural artistic exchange in Europe and beyond.

Pleasure and Piety - The Art of Joachim Wtewael (Hardcover): James Clifton, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Arthur K. Wheelock Pleasure and Piety - The Art of Joachim Wtewael (Hardcover)
James Clifton, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Arthur K. Wheelock; Contributions by Stijn Alsteens, Anne W. Lowenthal
R2,254 Discovery Miles 22 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A brilliant colorist and masterful storyteller, Dutch mannerist Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) wielded a remarkably skilled brush and the technical ability to show it off in intricate compositions. He took inspiration from a wide range of biblical and mythological sources to create imaginative, often quite erotic scenes. While such pictures were prized in Wtewael's time, more recently they were hidden away--behind other paintings, in leather folders on bookshelves, and in the reserves of great museums. This richly illustrated volume brings together more than fifty of Wtewael's finest paintings and drawings, from a small jewel-like picture on copper depicting Mars and Venus to large-scale mannerist showpieces such as The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and Perseus and Andromeda. A pillar of the Utrecht community, Wtewael was engaged in business, religion, and politics as well as art. He adopted the exotic mannerist style, full of artifice and inventive manipulation, and continued to be fascinated by the challenge of creating sophisticated variations well into his maturity, when other Dutch artists had turned to naturalism. This book explores Wtewael's amazingly refined and detailed paintings and drawings, shedding light on his reputation, his life, and the conflicted times--marked by iconoclasm and strife--in which he thrived. Exhibition schedule: *Centraal Museum Utrecht, February 21-May 25, 2015*National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 28-October 4, 2015* Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 1, 2015-January 31, 2016

Michelangelo'S Dream (Hardcover): Stephanie Buck Michelangelo'S Dream (Hardcover)
Stephanie Buck
R1,233 R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Save R286 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Michelangelo's masterpiece The Dream ( Il Sogno) has been described as one of the finest of all Italian Renaissance drawings and is amongst The Courtauld Gallery's greatest treasures. Executed in c. 1533, The Dream exemplifies Michelangelo's unrivalled skill as draftsman. Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld in 2010, this catalogue examines this celebrated work in the context of a group of closely related drawings by Michelangelo, as well as some of his original letters and poems and works by his contemporaries. The Dream is one of Michelangelo's 'presentation drawings', a magnificent and famous group of highly refined compositions which the artist gave to his closest friends. These beautiful and complex works transformed drawings into an independent art form and are amongst Michelangelo's very finest creations in any medium. The Dream was probably one of a superb group made for a young Roman nobleman with whom Michelangelo was in love, Tommaso de' Cavalieri, who was celebrated for his outstanding beauty, gracious manners and intellect. This group is studied in the book and includes The Punishment of Tityus, The Fall of Phaeton, A Bacchanal of Children and The Rape of Ganymede. In his Life of Michelangelo (1568) the biographer and artist Giorgio Vasari praised these exceptional works as "drawings the like of which have never been seen" - and they are still regarded as amongst the greatest single series of drawings ever made.

Did Leonardo da VInci create Paintings in 3D - Down the Rabbit Hole (Paperback): Leo Atreides Did Leonardo da VInci create Paintings in 3D - Down the Rabbit Hole (Paperback)
Leo Atreides
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Noisy Renaissance - Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (Paperback): Niall Atkinson The Noisy Renaissance - Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (Paperback)
Niall Atkinson
R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 documentary and literary evidence, art and architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an "acoustic topography" of Florence. The dissemination of official messages, the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city's physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal, communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious. By exploring these rarely studied soundscapes, Atkinson shows Florence to be both an exceptional and an exemplary case study of urban conditions in the early modern period.

Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy - The Material Culture of the Middling Class (Hardcover, 0): Paula... Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy - The Material Culture of the Middling Class (Hardcover, 0)
Paula Hohti Erichsen
R4,444 Discovery Miles 44 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Did ordinary Italians have a 'Renaissance'? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenth-century visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and families at artisanal levels (such as shoemakers, barbers, bakers and innkeepers) lived and worked, managed their household economies and consumption, socialised in their homes, and engaged with the arts and the markets for luxury goods. It demonstrates that although the economic and social status of local craftsmen and traders was relatively low, their material possessions show how these men and women who rarely make it into the history books were fully engaged with contemporary culture, cultural customs and the urban way of life.

Proceedings Of The West Virginia Historical Society (Volume I) (Paperback): Proceedings Of The West Virginia Historical Society (Volume I) (Paperback)
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance - The Slade Lectures (Paperback): Irving Lavin The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance - The Slade Lectures (Paperback)
Irving Lavin; Edited by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity (Hardcover): Marisa Anne Bass Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity (Hardcover)
Marisa Anne Bass
R1,274 R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Save R149 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artist's life and art, Marisa Anne Bass shows how Gossart's paintings were part of a larger cultural effort in the Netherlands to assert the region's ancient heritage as distinct from the antiquity and presumed cultural hegemony of Rome. Focusing on Gossart's vibrant, monumental mythological nudes, the book challenges previous interpretations by arguing that Gossart and his patrons did not slavishly imitate Italian Renaissance models but instead sought to contest the idea that the Roman past gave the Italians a monopoly on antiquity. Drawing on many previously unused primary sources in Latin, Dutch, and French, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity offers a fascinating new understanding of both the painter and the history of northern European art at large.

Piero della Francesca and the Baptism of the New World (Hardcover): Sandra Marraghini Piero della Francesca and the Baptism of the New World (Hardcover)
Sandra Marraghini; Translated by Virna Pigolotti
R1,547 Discovery Miles 15 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance - The Slade Lectures (Hardcover): Irving Lavin The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance - The Slade Lectures (Hardcover)
Irving Lavin; Edited by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life, Letters, and Poetry (Paperback): Michelangelo Life, Letters, and Poetry (Paperback)
Michelangelo; Translated by George Bull, Peter Porter
R300 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator of many Italian classics, has brought his skill and experience to bear on translating this new selection of Michelangelo's letters and poetry, as well as the Life, the biography written by Michelangelo's pupil Ascanio Condivi.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

History of Ottoman Renaissance Art - From Mehmed I to Selim II: Revised Edition (Paperback): Metin Mustafa History of Ottoman Renaissance Art - From Mehmed I to Selim II: Revised Edition (Paperback)
Metin Mustafa
R1,624 R1,534 Discovery Miles 15 340 Save R90 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Greatest Inventors in History (Paperback): Activity Wizo The Greatest Inventors in History (Paperback)
Activity Wizo
R277 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R43 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Decoding Old Masters - Patrons, Princes and Enigmatic Paintings of the 15th Century (Hardcover): Abolala Soudavar Decoding Old Masters - Patrons, Princes and Enigmatic Paintings of the 15th Century (Hardcover)
Abolala Soudavar
R3,883 Discovery Miles 38 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The interpretation of paintings--especially of Old Masters--has occupied art historians for generations. Rarely, however, have they attempted to place the subject of their research in its wider political and international context. So what can we learn, for example, about the state of 15th-century Europe by studying some of the great paintings of the time?


In this innovative work, Abolala Soudavar examines seven paintings by some of the great masters of the 15th century and demonstrates how we can better understand the state of international relations and the political rivalries of the time by decoding the figures, their postures and gestures, the background scenes, the compositions and much else in these paintings. The result offers some extraordinary solutions to long-standing puzzles, which illuminate both the paintings and our understanding of the period. By decoding these paintings, Soudavar has altered the landscape of our understanding of 15th-century Art and opened the door to a kind of political and historical analysis of high culture which will affect how we study the history of art in future generations.

European Art of the Fifteenth Century (Paperback): . Zuffi European Art of the Fifteenth Century (Paperback)
. Zuffi
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still popular at the beginning of the century, was giving way to the influence of Early Netherlandish Flemish masters such as Jan van Eyck, who emphasized narrative and the complex use of light for symbolic meaning. Patrons favored paintings in oil and on wooden panels for works ranging from large, hinged altarpieces to small, increasingly lifelike portraits.
In the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice, and Mantua, artists and architects alike perfected existing techniques and developed new ones. The painter Masaccio mastered linear perspective; the sculptor Donatello produced anatomically correct but idealized figures such as his bronze nude of David; and the brilliant architect and engineer Brunelleschi integrated Gothic and Renaissance elements to build the self-supporting dome of the Florence Cathedral.
This beautifully illustrated guide analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of this early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth century.

This is not Leonardo da Vinci (Paperback): Riccardo Magnani This is not Leonardo da Vinci (Paperback)
Riccardo Magnani
R751 R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Save R123 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century: the Foundation of an Ottoman Court Style - The Foundation of an Ottoman Court Style... Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century: the Foundation of an Ottoman Court Style - The Foundation of an Ottoman Court Style (Hardcover)
Julian Raby
R2,331 R1,742 Discovery Miles 17 420 Save R589 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Produced for the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, this book traces the development of the early Ottoman style under influence from their neighbors; the impact of the patronage of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror; and the development of the "classical" style under his successor Bayezid II. The book includes beautiful illustrations of 41 masterpieces of bookbinding with technical appendices, bibliography, concordance, and index. Julian Raby is director of the Freer Gallery, Washington, DC.

The Polyhedrists - Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century (Paperback): Noam Andrews The Polyhedrists - Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century (Paperback)
Noam Andrews
R1,102 R879 Discovery Miles 8 790 Save R223 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Van Eyck - Masters of Art (Paperback): Simone Ferrari Van Eyck - Masters of Art (Paperback)
Simone Ferrari
R298 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R47 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fifteenth-century Flemish painter who spent most of his life in Bruges, van Eyck was revered for his innovative manipulation of oil paint. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offers full-page spreads of masterpieces as well as highlights of smaller details - allowing the viewer to appreciate every aspect of the artist's technique and oeuvre.

Antipodean Early Modern - European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600 (Hardcover, 0): Anne Dunlop Antipodean Early Modern - European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600 (Hardcover, 0)
Anne Dunlop; Contributions by Libby Melzer, Margaret M. Manion, Elaine Shaw, Bernard J Muir, …
R3,166 R1,880 Discovery Miles 18 800 Save R1,286 (41%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by Pieter Brueghel the Younger - much of the artwork in this book, held by Australian collections, is essentially unknown beyond the continent. The authors of these essays showcase these extraordinary objects to their full potential, revealing a wide range of contemporary art and historical research. This collection of essays will surprise even specialists.

Leonardo - Nature in the Mirror (Paperback): Marco Versiero Leonardo - Nature in the Mirror (Paperback)
Marco Versiero
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This monograph is the first title in a new series titled Opera Maestra, specifically focused on the work and itinerary of the artists who made history, from an unprecedented perspective. The series begins with Leonardo da Vinci, captured by the expert Marco Versiero. At the core the analysis is the specific soul, among the thousands of Leonardo's, that Marco Versiero wants to underline: his mirror-soul; namely, Leonardo's eye between Human and Nature. In other words, the eye that allowed the artist to mediate between his favourite dimensions (the human and the natural one), and allowed them to communicate with each other without cancelling themselves, but rather managing to reflect one in the other's light, like in front of a mirror. An essential biographical note introduces the reader to Marco Versiero's pages, enriched with 61 detailed pictures. The pictures, proposing not only a selection of Leonardo's paintings but also of his drawings, enhanced with comprehensive captions, tell the itinerary of the genius from the years of his apprenticeship in Verrocchio's workshop till the days of his maturity.

Leonardo da Vinci (Paperback): Sigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci (Paperback)
Sigmund Freud
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His ChildhoodSigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (German: Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci) is a 1910 essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci. It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's life based on his paintings.In the Codex Atlanticus Leonardo recounts being attacked as an infant in his crib by a bird. Freud cites the passage as:"It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my

Reading Vasari (Hardcover): Anne B. Barriault, Andrew Ladis, Norman E. Land, Jeryldene M. Wood Reading Vasari (Hardcover)
Anne B. Barriault, Andrew Ladis, Norman E. Land, Jeryldene M. Wood
R2,189 Discovery Miles 21 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the rich literary character and rhetorical strategies of Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects," which tells the story of Italian art as it unfolded from its beginnings in the Trecento to its pinnacle in Michelangelo and the art of the Academy in the mid-sixteenth century. The contributors propose ways to read Vasari's text in the light of recent disputes over what is fact, fiction, or biography, and who may have read Vasari's editions when they were first published. The essays isolate and analyze select threads from Vasari's luxurious textual tapestry: these range from architecture, cosmology and philosophy to biography, comedy, elegy and travelogue. In doing so, the authors have built upon ideas proposed in recent studies of the "Lives," including important works by Paul Barolsky and Patricia Rubin.

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