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Sublime Truth and the Senses - Titian's Poesie for King Philip II of Spain (English, Italian, Latin, Hardcover): Marie... Sublime Truth and the Senses - Titian's Poesie for King Philip II of Spain (English, Italian, Latin, Hardcover)
Marie Tanner
R3,376 Discovery Miles 33 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Renaissance and Baroque Art - Selected Essays (Hardcover): Leo Steinberg Renaissance and Baroque Art - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
Leo Steinberg; Edited by Sheila Schwartz; Introduction by Stephen J. Campbell
R1,692 Discovery Miles 16 920 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Steinberg's perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal analysis, but always put into the service of interpretation. This volume begins and ends with thematic essays on two fundamental precepts of Steinberg's art history: how dependence on textual authority mutes the visual truths of images and why artists routinely copy or adapt earlier artworks. In between are fourteen chapters on masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque art, with bold and enlightening interpretations of works by Mantegna, Filippo Lippi, Pontormo, El Greco, Caravaggio, Steen and, finally, Velazquez. Four chapters are devoted to some of Velazquez's best-known paintings, ending with the famously enigmatic Las Meninas. Renaissance and Baroque Art is the third volume in a series that presents Steinberg's writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Donatello: In Tuscany - Itineraries (Paperback): Francesco Caglioti Donatello: In Tuscany - Itineraries (Paperback)
Francesco Caglioti; Text written by Laura Cavazzini, Gabriele Fattorini, Aldo Galli, Neville Rowley
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo e l'Allegoria Della Pazienza (Italian, Hardcover): Carlo Falciani Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo e l'Allegoria Della Pazienza (Italian, Hardcover)
Carlo Falciani
R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari's painting Allegory of Patience, painted in 1551-52 for the Bishop of Arezzo, Vasari's hometown. The painting was conceived in Rome with the aid of Michelangelo, as many surviving letters reveal. The work will be on view to the public at the National Gallery, London, through 2023. The monumental figure of a woman, life-sized, with arms crossed, watches time run down. The passing of time is symbolized in the drops that fall from an antique water clock beside her, gradually wearing away the stone on which she rests her foot. The Bishop of Arezzo regarded patience as the key to his career and achievements, and wished it to be represented in a picture. Vasari consulted his contemporaries and fellow humanists as well as the great sculptor Michelangelo when deciding what form it should take. The image represents more exactly the Latin tag 'diuturna tolerantia' (daily tolerance). The painting quickly became famous in its time and numerous copies were made of it - but not until now has the original emerged. Thanks to letters between those involved, the painting and the process of its creation are richly documented, and in particular provide insights and quotations about picture-making from Michelangelo. The book carries full documentation of the work and its known copies, some of which can be traced to leading patrons in Renaissance Italy. It also examines Vasari's own autograph technique and artistic aims.

An Art Lover's Guide to Florence (Paperback): Judith Testa An Art Lover's Guide to Florence (Paperback)
Judith Testa
R662 R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Save R111 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence can be so overwhelming that Florentine hospitals treat hundreds of visitors each year for symptoms brought on by trying to see them all, an illness famously identified with the French author Stendhal. While most guidebooks offer only brief descriptions of a large number of works, with little discussion of the historical background, Judith Testa gives a fresh perspective on the rich and brilliant art of the Florentine Renaissance in An Art Lover's Guide to Florence. Concentrating on a number of the greatest works, by such masters as Botticelli and Michelangelo, Testa explains each piece in terms of what it meant to the people who produced it and for whom they made it, deftly treating the complex interplay of politics, sex, and religion that were involved in the creation of those works. With Testa as a guide, armchair travelers and tourists alike will delight in the fascinating world of Florentine art and history.

Notebooks (Paperback, New): Leonardo Da Vinci Notebooks (Paperback, New)
Leonardo Da Vinci; Selected by Irma A. Richter; Edited by Thereza Wells; Preface by Martin Kemp 1
R316 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.' Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. In them he recorded everything that interested him in the world around him, and his study of how things work. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity he studied the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables and letters and developed his belief in the sublime unity of nature and man. Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo's thoughts, and his approach to work and life. This selection offers a cross-section of his writings, organized around coherent themes. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

A Rothschild Renaissance - Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest (Hardcover): Dora Thornton A Rothschild Renaissance - Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest (Hardcover)
Dora Thornton
R1,021 R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Save R205 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents and explores the Waddesdon Bequest, the name given to the Kunstkammer or cabinet collection of Renaissance treasures which was bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, MP in 1898. The Bequest is named after Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, a fairy tale French chateau built by Baron Ferdinand from 1874 - 83, where the collection was housed during his lifetime. As a major Jewish banking family, the Rothschilds were the greatest collectors of the nineteenth century, seeking not only the finest craftsmanship in their treasures, but also demonstrating great discernment and a keen sense of historical importance in selecting them. Baron Ferdinand's aim, often working in rivalry with his cousins, was to possess a special room filled with splendid, precious and intricate objects in the tradition of European courts of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. It was understood at the time that a collection of this quality could never be formed again, given the rarity and expense of the pieces, and the problems of faking and forgery of just this kind of material. The book will unlock the history and romance of this glorious collection through its exploration of some of its greatest treasures and the stories they tell. It will introduce makers and patrons, virtuoso craftsmanship, faking and the history of collecting from the late medieval to modern periods, as told through the objects. Treasures discussed will include masterpieces of goldsmiths' work in silver; jewellery; hardstones and engraved rock crystal; astonishing microcarvings in boxwood, painted enamel, ceramic and glass; arms and armour and 'curosities': exotic treasures incorporating ostrich eggs, Seychelles nut, amber or nautilus shell. Scholarly catalogues have appeared for parts of this splendid collection but this book will open up the Bequest for the general reader. By looking at individual objects in detail, and drawing on new photography and research, the book will enable readers to see and understand the objects in a completely different light.

Europe Views the World, 1500-1700 (Hardcover): Larry Silver Europe Views the World, 1500-1700 (Hardcover)
Larry Silver
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Europe Views the World examines the wide diversity of images that Europeans produced to represent the wide variety of peoples and places around the globe during and after the so-called 'Age of Exploration'. Beginning with the medieval imagery of Europe's imagined alien races, and with an emphasis on the artists of Northern Europe, Larry Silver takes the reader on a tour across continents, from the Americas to Africa and Asia. Encompassing works such as prints, paintings, maps, tapestries and sculptural objects, this book addresses the overall question of an emerging European self-definition through the evidence of visual culture, however biased, about the wider world in its component parts. Unique to this book, each chapter concludes with an 'in response', analysing representations of Europeans by indigenous peoples of each continent to give a deeper and more multi-faceted account of the impact of Europe's view of the world.

Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain (Hardcover): Daan Van Heesch, Robrecht Janssen, Jan van der Stock Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain (Hardcover)
Daan Van Heesch, Robrecht Janssen, Jan van der Stock
R4,597 Discovery Miles 45 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Art - A Visual History (Hardcover): Robert Cumming Art - A Visual History (Hardcover)
Robert Cumming 1
R833 R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Save R138 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar Degas Covering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art history, featuring everything from iconic works and lesser-known gems to techniques and themes. Offering a comprehensive overview of Western artists, themes, paintings, techniques, and stories, Art: A Visual History is packed full of large, full-colour images of iconic works and lesser-known gems. Exploring every era, from 30,000BCE to the present, it includes features on the major schools and movements, as well as close-up critical appraisals of 22 masterpieces - from Botticelli's Primavera to J. M. W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire. With detailed referencing, crisp reproductions and a fresh design, this beautiful book is a must-have for anyone with an interest in art history - from first-time gallery goers to knowledgeable art enthusiasts. What makes great art? Discover the answer now, with Art: A Visual History.

The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover): Amy R Bloch, Daniel M Zolli The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover)
Amy R Bloch, Daniel M Zolli
R3,487 R2,563 Discovery Miles 25 630 Save R924 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fifteenth-century Italy witnessed sweeping innovations in the art of sculpture. Sculptors rediscovered new types of images from classical antiquity and invented new ones, devised novel ways to finish surfaces, and pushed the limits of their materials to new expressive extremes. The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy surveys the sculptural production created by a range of artists throughout the peninsula. It offers a comprehensive overview of Italian sculpture during a century of intense creativity and development. Here, nineteen historians of Quattrocento Italian sculpture chart the many competing forces that led makers, patrons, and viewers to invest sculpture with such heightened importance in this time and place. Methodologically wide-ranging, the essays, specially commissioned for this volume, explore the vast range of techniques and media (stone, metal, wood, terracotta, and stucco) used to fashion works of sculpture. They also examine how viewers encountered those objects, discuss varying approaches to narrative, and ponder the increasing contemporary interest in the relationship between sculpture and history.

The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Durer (Paperback, 2nd edition): Albrecht Durer The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Durer (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Albrecht Durer
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Knight, Death and Devil; Melencolia I, and more-all Drer's known works in all three media, including 6 works formerly attributed to him. 120 plates.

Raffaello 500 (Hardcover): Fabio Scaletti Raffaello 500 (Hardcover)
Fabio Scaletti
R1,481 Discovery Miles 14 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book celebrates the extraordinary talent of Raphael, 500 years after his death. This is the story of an unequalled master whose figure has surpassed that of other leading figures of the Renaissance. His talent grew with astonishing rapidity, starting with the years of training at the workshop of his father Giovanni Santi: in 1500, at only 17 years old, he was already defined 'magister'. The author leads us into the folds of the extraordinary story of Raphael, studded with masterpieces that have become cornerstones in the history of art, and helps us to understand his timeless talent through new comparisons and explanations. The deep knowledge and the profound passion of the author make reading the book exciting and unforgettable.

Il Bresciano - Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice (Hardcover): Charles Avery Il Bresciano - Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice (Hardcover)
Charles Avery
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di Alessandri, commonly called from his native city, 'Il Bresciano', or from his products, 'Andrea dai bronzi', has been identified over the centuries. His style has been described as having similarities both with the High Renaissance of Sansovino and the Mannerism of Vittoria, the two successive master sculptors of sixteenth-century Venice, though he cast major bronzes for both. Andrea's signed masterpiece is a Paschal Candlestick in bronze, over two metres high and with sixty or more fascinating figures, made for Sansovino's magnificent lost church of Santo Spirito in 1568 and now in Santa Maria della Salute. The author's identification in 1996 of a pair of magnificent Firedogs with sphinx feet (which in 1568 had been recommended to Prince Francesco de'Medici in Florence), and in 2015 of an elaborate figurative bronze Ewer in Verona, have been the culmination of the process of recognition. Archival research has at last revealed the span of Andrea's life as 1524/25-1573, as well as many significant facts about his family and patronage. So the time is ripe for a comprehensive, well-illustrated, book on Il Bresciano, a 'new' and major bronzista in the great tradition of north Italy.

Botticelli - Artist and Designer (Hardcover): Ana Debenedetti Botticelli - Artist and Designer (Hardcover)
Ana Debenedetti
R561 R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Save R101 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organization of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable career of this pivotal artist and his production with fresh eyes, presenting the analysis within the wider context of Florentine society and culture. Many of Botticelli's most celebrated works such as The Birth of Venus are evaluated alongside less familiar forms such as tapestry and embroidery, showing the wide breath of the artist's oeuvre and his talent as a designer across media.

Filippo Lippi (Hardcover): P. G. Konody Filippo Lippi (Hardcover)
P. G. Konody
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Praying to Portraits - Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Hardcover): Adam Jasienski Praying to Portraits - Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Hardcover)
Adam Jasienski
R2,655 Discovery Miles 26 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the divine. Using Inquisition records, hagiographies, art-theoretical treatises, poems, and plays, Jasienski convincingly demonstrates that portraiture was at the very center of broader debates about the status of images in Spain and its colonies. Highly original and persuasive, Praying to Portraits profoundly revises our understanding of early modern portraiture. It will intrigue art historians across geographical boundaries, and it will also find an audience among scholars of architecture, history, and religion in the early modern Hispanic world.

Cambridge and the Study of Netherlandish Art - The Low Countries and the Fens (Paperback): Meredith Hale Cambridge and the Study of Netherlandish Art - The Low Countries and the Fens (Paperback)
Meredith Hale
R3,075 Discovery Miles 30 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Lost Michelangelos (Hardcover): A Forcellino The Lost Michelangelos (Hardcover)
A Forcellino
R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Translated by Lucinda Byatt This book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Like many stories of artistic loss, this one begins in a library in Italy, where Antonio Forcellino - a distinguished Michelangelo scholar and restorer - stumbled across some unpublished letters among the papers of Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, son of Isabella d Este and an extremely important figure in the Italian Renaissance. These letters comment on the paintings of Michelangelo in a way that is completely at odds with what was to become the dominant critical tradition of Michelangelo scholarship, an inconsistency that set Forcellino off on a journey that took him to Dubrovnik, Oxford, New York and Niagara Falls and culminated in the discovery of two magnificent paintings: Pieta with Mary and Two Angels, now in a private collection in America, and Cavalieri Crucifixion, now held by an educational institution in England. Through a combination of careful historical research, extensive restoration and meticulous radiographic analysis, Forcellino shows convincingly that these paintings can be traced back to the studio of Michelangelo. This extraordinary story, brilliantly retold, calls into question the received view of Michelangelo s work and fills in a missing piece in our understanding of one of the greatest artists of all time.

Renaissance Children (Hardcover): Till-Holger Borchert, Hilde Ridder-Symoens, Annemarieke Willemsen, Samuel Mareel Renaissance Children (Hardcover)
Till-Holger Borchert, Hilde Ridder-Symoens, Annemarieke Willemsen, Samuel Mareel
R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Renaissance Children puts child portrait painting from the 15th and 16th century in the spotlight and tells the historical, pedagogical and artistic story of the most remarkable paintings. In the 15th and 16th century, the House of Habsburg ruled over a large part of Europe, and would turn into one of the most important European royal families in world history. In that time, Mechelen was the centre of education, where many Habsburg princes and princesses spent a large part of their youth, among whom Margaret of Austria and Charles V. Other powerful families also sent their children to Mechelen - the most famous of whom is perhaps Anne Boleyn, who would later become queen of England. Renaissance Children goes back to that Belgian city, where many portrait paintings of children originated. The book specifically focusses on child portraits of top artists, such as Jan Gossart, Bernard van Orley and Juan de Flandes. Includes unique paintings by Flemish Masters, such as Jan Gossart, Bernard van Orley and Juan de Flandes Insight into educational values and techniques from the 15th and 16th century The first publication about art and education at one the most important royal houses in European history

Renaissance Art (Vinyl record, Unabridged edition): Tom Nichols Renaissance Art (Vinyl record, Unabridged edition)
Tom Nichols; Read by Paul English
R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Leonardo in Britain: Collections and Historical Reception (Paperback): Juliana Barone, Susanna Avery-Quash Leonardo in Britain: Collections and Historical Reception (Paperback)
Juliana Barone, Susanna Avery-Quash
R1,807 R1,650 Discovery Miles 16 500 Save R157 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch - Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation (Hardcover): Debra... The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch - Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation (Hardcover)
Debra Higgs Strickland
R3,662 Discovery Miles 36 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Venetian Painting Matters, 1450-1750 (Paperback): Jodi Cranston Venetian Painting Matters, 1450-1750 (Paperback)
Jodi Cranston
R2,257 Discovery Miles 22 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book brings together essays about painting in Venice during three centuries of remarkable artistic production, influence, and exchange. The chronological scope of the anthology reflects the crucial interrelationship between the life of the arts and the republic, but also indicates the longevity of the distinctive, but not in the least isolated, mode of making and looking that engaged painters and viewers both inside and outside of Venice. The focused themes that emerge in the essays-the artist's self-perception, the role of innovation and tradition in formal and material aspects of pictorial composition, the artistic exchange between Venice and other cities, both east and west, and the unique political and social pressures on artistic production and reception-reflect the Venetian engagement with many of the central concerns that preoccupied early modern artists. The dialogue established between Venetian art and society underpins all of the essays in the anthology; however, their critical focus remains on the formal, stylistic, and structural aspects of the pictures and how these visual mechanisms express meaning and shape viewer response.

Early Netherlandish Painting Budapest. Volume II (Hardcover): Susan Urbach Early Netherlandish Painting Budapest. Volume II (Hardcover)
Susan Urbach; As told to Agota Varga, Andras Fay
R4,999 Discovery Miles 49 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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