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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art > General

Sistine Chapel - A Biblical Tour (Hardcover): Christine Panyard Sistine Chapel - A Biblical Tour (Hardcover)
Christine Panyard
R579 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R84 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For the first time in 500 years, Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel have been brought together with the scripture on which they were based to provide a guide for scholars and pilgrims to the Sistine Chapel.

Venice Illuminated - Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts (Hardcover): Helena Katalin Szepe Venice Illuminated - Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts (Hardcover)
Helena Katalin Szepe
R1,971 Discovery Miles 19 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For patricians in the Republic of Venice, paintings in manuscripts marking their appointment to high office expressed a tension between selfless service and individual ambition. Originally of value in confirming and instructing an elected officer, these unique documents were transformed through art into enduring monuments promoting state ideals, individual status, and family memory. This book introduces the reader to a long-hidden world of beautiful and complex images, and to tales of personal sacrifice, political maneuvering, and family intrigue. Analysis of these small paintings within books opens up new perspectives on canonical works by such artists as Giovanni Bellini, Titian, and Veronese, as well as on tomb sculptures and public memorials. Extensive original material on artistic patronage in Venice and its territories abroad encourages an expanded understanding of art in the service of the state and of Venice as empire.

A History of Art History (Paperback): Christopher S. Wood A History of Art History (Paperback)
Christopher S. Wood
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher S. Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original and accessible account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline. Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the understanding of art history.

Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art - The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien (Hardcover): Yvonne Owens Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art - The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien (Hardcover)
Yvonne Owens; Foreword by Joseph Leo Koerner
R3,579 Discovery Miles 35 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Durer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from-and contributed to-the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural 'feminine defect,' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung's iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.

Raphael (Hardcover): Christof Thoenes Raphael (Hardcover)
Christof Thoenes
R476 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R83 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483-1520) is one such star. The man we call simply Raphael has for centuries been hailed as a supreme Renaissance artist. For some, he even outstrips his equally famous, equally first-named, contemporaries, Leonardo and Michelangelo. From 1500 to 1508, Raphael worked throughout central Italy, particularly in Florence where he secured his reputation as a painter of portraits and beautifully rendered Madonnas, archetypical icons within the Catholic faith. In 1508 he was summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II and later embarked on an ambitious mural scheme for the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Within this room, Raphael's The School of Athens is considered a paradigm of the High Renaissance, merging Classical philosophy with perfected perspectival space, animated figures, and a composition of majestic balance. This essential introduction explores how in just two decades of work, Raphael painted his way to legendary greatness. With highlights from his prolific output, it presents the mastery of figures and forms that secured his place not only in the trinity of Renaissance luminaries but also among the most esteemed artists of all time. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

The Young Leonardo - Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Hardcover): Larry J. Feinberg The Young Leonardo - Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Hardcover)
Larry J. Feinberg
R2,158 Discovery Miles 21 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius', removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning of his career as an artist. While celebrating his many artistic achievements, the book illuminates his debt to other artists' works and his struggles to gain and retain patronage, as well as his career and personal difficulties. Feinberg examines the range of Leonardo's interests, including aerodynamics, anatomy, astronomy, botany, geology, hydraulics, optics, and warfare technology, to clarify how the artist's broad intellectual curiosity informed his art. Situating the artist within the political, social, cultural, and artistic context of mid- and late-fifteenth-century Florence, Feinberg shows how this environment influenced Leonardo's artistic output and laid the groundwork for the achievements of his mature works.

New Apelleses and New Apollos - Poet-Artists around the Court of Florence (1537-1587) (Hardcover): Diletta Gamberini New Apelleses and New Apollos - Poet-Artists around the Court of Florence (1537-1587) (Hardcover)
Diletta Gamberini
R1,728 Discovery Miles 17 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book breaks new ground by illuminating the key role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging study of poems by painters, sculptors, architects, and goldsmiths who were active in Florence under Cosimo I and Francesco I de' Medici - a milieu in which many practitioners of the visual arts appropriated the literary medium to address issues related to their primary professions. New Apelleses, and New Apollos intervenes in the burgeoning scholarly discourse on the intellectual life of artists in early modern Italy, revealing how poetry often provides fresh insights into art-theoretical debates, patronage questions, workshop cultures, issues of professional identity, and networks of personal relations.

Albrecht Durer - Documentary Biography (Hardcover): Jeffrey Ashcroft Albrecht Durer - Documentary Biography (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Ashcroft
R2,977 Discovery Miles 29 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries and succeeding generations added their accounts of him to this documentary legacy. Jeffrey Ashcroft's new book provides the first English translation of the whole corpus of Durer's writings; the legal, financial, and administrative documentation of his life and work; and what others wrote about him during his life and in the following century. Translations of primary documents are accompanied by extensive commentary, providing Anglophone scholars access to German-language research. This unique combination of documentary evidence, current research, and exhaustive bibliography will doubtless become a definitive source for students and scholars of Durer and his work, as well as for historians of early modern culture, language, and literature.

Holbein's Sir Thomas More (Hardcover): Hilary Mantel, Xavier Salomon Holbein's Sir Thomas More (Hardcover)
Hilary Mantel, Xavier Salomon
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hans Holbein's famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist's greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appealing new volume, "A Letter to Thomas More, Knight", award-winning author Hilary Mantel vividly imagines the background to the creation of this extraordinary portrait, giving it both historical perspective and immediacy. An insightful, concise, scholarly essay by Xavier Salomon grounds it in the art-historical world. Hans Holbein (1497/98-1543) painted Sir Thomas More in 1527, having been a guest in More's house when he first arrived in England. He brilliantly renders his sitter's rich fabrics and unshaven face with sympathy and perception. Frick Diptychs, a new series of small books to be co-published by GILES with The Frick Collection, New York, pairs masterworks from the Frick with critical and literary essays. The novelist Hilary Mantel will be followed by the filmmaker James Ivory on Vermeer's "Mistress and Maid" and the artist and author Edmund de Waal on a pair of porcelain and bronze candlesticks by the 18th-century French metalworker Pierre Gouthiere.

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback, New Ed): John Pope-Hennessy The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (Paperback, New Ed)
John Pope-Hennessy; John Addington Symonds
R800 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Save R591 (74%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work is the only autobiography of a Renaissance artist. It vividly describes the artist's life at the Papal Court in Rome and at the Royal Court of France, including and eyewitness account of the Sack of Rome in 1527. Cellini also gives us intimate details of his career as a Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith.

Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600 (Paperback, Revised): Anthony Blunt Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600 (Paperback, Revised)
Anthony Blunt
R334 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R62 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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 Humanism to Mannerism. He discusses the writings of Leonardo, Savonarola, Michelangelo, and Vasari, examines the effect of the Council of Trent on religious art, and chronicles the successful struggle of the painters and sculptors themselves to elevate their status from craftsmen to creative artists.

The Renaissance Speaks Hebrew (Paperback): Giulio Busi The Renaissance Speaks Hebrew (Paperback)
Giulio Busi
R949 R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Save R206 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volume, investigating the extraordinary season of the Italian Renaissance, highlights the great contribution offered to the culture of that period by the Jewish world, still little documented in today's studies. Indeed, there is no doubt that Judaism, with its long-lasting identity and tradition strongly rooted in territorial states, has made a peculiar contribution to the sphere of arts, literature and humanistic philosophy, contributing to giving many original and inimitable intonations to the Italian Renaissance. The investigation proposed here focuses on the relationship - harmonious in some cases and conflicting in others - between the Christian majority society and the Jewish identity in the period between the early fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries, meaning from the full affirmation of the Humanism to the conclusion of the Council of Trento, offering at the same time a precise geographical overview of the phenomenon. The volume is divided into thematic chapters, it contains a rich catalogue of testimonies ranging from liturgical objects to those of daily use, from manuscripts to furnishings to some art masterpieces, and is supplemented by bibliographical apparatus. Essays by: Guido Bartolucci, Giulio Busi, Donatella Calabi, Saverio Campanini, J.H. Chajes, Andreina Contessa, Miriam Davide, Silvana Greco, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Mauro Perani, David B. Ruderman, Angela Scandaliato, Salvatore Settis, Giacomo Todeschini, Francesca Trivellato, Giuseppe Veltri, Gianni Venturi, Joanna Weinberg.

Leonardo - Experience a Masterpiece (Paperback): Leah Kharibian Leonardo - Experience a Masterpiece (Paperback)
Leah Kharibian
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An innovative look at the creation of Leonardo's The Virgin of the Rocks This concise but innovative book, published to accompany an immersive digital exhibition at the National Gallery, London, focuses on a single Leonardo painting, and one of the artist's most celebrated: The Virgin of the Rocks. The quarter-century process of its creation is described, while a technical study shows how the latest scanning technology has been used by the National Gallery to explore beneath the surface of the picture, resulting in new insights into Leonardo's approach, optical theories, and painting technique. Illustrated with details of the painting, technical images, drawings, and comparative works, this volume combines the expertise of curators, conservators, and scientists in order to introduce readers to a fresh perspective on one of history's most extraordinary minds. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery, London (November 9, 2019-January 12, 2020)

Seeing Race Before Race – Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World (Paperback): Noémie Ndiaye, Lia Markey Seeing Race Before Race – Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World (Paperback)
Noémie Ndiaye, Lia Markey
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world.   The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance costume books and travel books, maps and cartographic volumes produced by Europeans as well as Indigenous peoples, mass-printed pamphlets, jewelry, decorative arts, religious iconography, paintings from around the world, ceremonial objects, festival books, and play texts intended for live performance. Contributors explore the deployment of what coeditor Noémie Ndiaye calls “the racial matrix†and its interconnected paradigms across the medieval and early modern chronological divide and across vast transnational and multilingual geographies. This volume uses items from the Fall 2023 exhibition “Seeing Race Before Raceâ€â€”a collaboration between RaceB4Race and the Newberry Library—as a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversation between premodern race studies, art history, performance studies, book history, and critical race theory.

Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe - Continuity and Expansion (Hardcover): Dagmar Eichberger, Shelley Perlove Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe - Continuity and Expansion (Hardcover)
Dagmar Eichberger, Shelley Perlove
R2,966 Discovery Miles 29 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Brilliant Bodies - Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy (Hardcover): Timothy McCall Brilliant Bodies - Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
Timothy McCall
R2,479 Discovery Miles 24 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and interprets the Renaissance glitterati-gorgeously dressed and adorned men-to reveal how charismatic bodies, in the palazzo and the piazza, seduced audiences and materialized power. Fifteenth-century Italian courts put men on display. Here, men were peacocks, attracting attention with scintillating brocades, shining armor, sparkling jewels, and glistening swords, spurs, and sequins. McCall's investigation of these spectacular masculinities challenges widely held assumptions about appropriate male display and adornment. Interpreting surviving objects, visual representations in a wide range of media, and a diverse array of primary textual sources, McCall argues that Renaissance masculine dress was a political phenomenon that fashioned power and patriarchal authority. Brilliant Bodies describes and recontextualizes the technical construction and cultural meanings of attire, casts a critical eye toward the complex and entangled relations between bodies and clothing, and explores the negotiations among makers, wearers, and materials. This groundbreaking study of masculinity makes an important intervention in the history of male ornamentation and fashion by examining a period when the public display of splendid men not only supported but also constituted authority. It will appeal to specialists in art history and fashion history as well as scholars working at the intersections of gender and politics in quattrocento Italy.

The Paintings in the Studiolo of Isabella D'Este at Mantua (Paperback): Egon Verheyen The Paintings in the Studiolo of Isabella D'Este at Mantua (Paperback)
Egon Verheyen
R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Still Lives - Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master (Hardcover): Maria H. Loh Still Lives - Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master (Hardcover)
Maria H. Loh
R1,378 R1,172 Discovery Miles 11 720 Save R206 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Michelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being Michelangelo was no easy thing: he was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, and depicted in unauthorized portraits. Still Lives traces the process by which artists such as Michelangelo, Durer, and Titian became early modern celebrities. Artists had been subjects of biographies since antiquity, but Renaissance artists were the first whose faces were sometimes as recognizable as their art. Maria Loh shows how this transformation was aided by the rapid expansion of portraiture and self-portraiture as independent genres in painting and sculpture. She examines the challenges confronting artists in this new image economy: What did it mean to be an image maker haunted by one's own image? How did these changes affect the everyday realities of artists and their workshops? And how did images of artists contribute to the way they envisioned themselves as figures in a history that would outlive them? Richly illustrated, Still Lives is an original exploration of the invention of the artist portrait and a new form of secular stardom.

Elizabethan Globalism - England, China and the Rainbow Portrait (Hardcover): Matthew Dimmock Elizabethan Globalism - England, China and the Rainbow Portrait (Hardcover)
Matthew Dimmock
R1,565 Discovery Miles 15 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fascinating look at how Elizabethan England was transformed by its interactions with cultures from around the world Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this revelatory study sheds light on how the nation's growing global encounters-from the Caribbean to Asia-created an interest and curiosity in the wider world that resonated deeply throughout society. Matthew Dimmock reconstructs an extraordinary housewarming party thrown at the newly built Cecil House in London in 1602 for Elizabeth I where a stunning display of Chinese porcelain served as a physical manifestation of how global trade and diplomacy had led to a new appreciation of foreign cultures. This party was also the likely inspiration for Elizabeth's celebrated Rainbow Portrait, an image that Dimmock describes as a carefully orchestrated vision of England's emerging ambitions for its engagements with the rest of the world. Bringing together an eclectic variety of sources including play texts, inventories, and artifacts, this extensively researched volume presents a picture of early modern England as an outward-looking nation intoxicated by what the world had to offer. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Vision and the Visionary in Raphael (Hardcover): Christian K. Kleinbub Vision and the Visionary in Raphael (Hardcover)
Christian K. Kleinbub
R2,374 R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Save R955 (40%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although Raphael has long been recognized as one of the great innovators of visionary painting (images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions), the full measure of his achievement in this area has never been taken. Vision and the Visionary in Raphael redresses this oversight by offering an expansive reading of these works within their contemporary artistic and religious contexts. At the center of the book is Raphael's engagement with one of the critical conflicts in the Renaissance understanding of vision. Whereas artistic theory emphasized painting's engagement with the physical world by way of the bodily eyes, religious images were generally intended to inspire their viewers to move from sensible appearances to the use of their "spiritual eyes" for contemplation of their god. For Raphael and his contemporaries, this double commitment to physical appearances and the spiritual dimensions of the image presented one of the greatest challenges of Renaissance religious art.

The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy - Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context (Hardcover): Mark... The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy - Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context (Hardcover)
Mark Rosen
R2,676 Discovery Miles 26 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How did maps of the distant reaches of the world communicate to the public in an era when exploration of those territories was still ongoing and knowledge about them remained incomplete? And why did Renaissance rulers frequently commission large-scale painted maps of those territories when they knew that they would soon be proven obsolete by newer, more accurate information? The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy addresses these questions by bridging the disciplines of art history and the histories of science, cartography, and geography to closely examine surviving Italian painted maps that were commissioned during a period better known for its printed maps and atlases. Challenging the belief that maps are strictly neutral or technical markers of geographic progress, this well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic and propagandistic dimensions of these painted maps as products of the competitive and ambitious European court culture that produced them.

Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 (Hardcover, 0): Elizabeth Sutton Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 (Hardcover, 0)
Elizabeth Sutton; Contributions by Nicole Cook, Celine Talon, Art Difuria, Saskia Beranek, …
R3,470 Discovery Miles 34 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today.

Nicholas Hilliard - Life of an Artist (Hardcover): Elizabeth Goldring Nicholas Hilliard - Life of an Artist (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Goldring
R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliard's long and remarkable life (c. 1547-1619) from the West Country to the heart of the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. It showcases new archival research and stunning images, many reproduced in color for the first time. Hilliard's portraits-some no larger than a watch-face-have decisively shaped perceptions of the appearances and personalities of many key figures in one of the most exciting, if volatile, periods in British history. His sitters included Elizabeth I, James I, and Mary, Queen of Scots; explorers Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh; and members of the emerging middle class from which he himself hailed. Hilliard counted the Medici, the Valois, the Habsburgs, and the Bourbons among his Continental European patrons and admirers. Published to mark the 400th anniversary of Hilliard's death, this is the definitive biography of one of Britain's most notable artists. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Mantegna and Bellini (Hardcover): Caroline Campbell, Dagmar Korbacher, Neville Rowley, Sarah Vowles Mantegna and Bellini (Hardcover)
Caroline Campbell, Dagmar Korbacher, Neville Rowley, Sarah Vowles; Contributions by Andrea De Marchi, …
R1,292 R1,163 Discovery Miles 11 630 Save R129 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An innovative study of the relationship between Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini, two masters of the Italian Renaissance Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked by pictorial and technical innovations, that are among the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring the fruitful dynamic between Mantegna's inventive compositional approach and interest in classical antiquity and Bellini's passion for landscape painting, this fascinating volume examines how these two artists, who were also brothers-in-law, influenced and responded to each other's work. Full of new insights and captivating juxtapositions-including comparisons of each of the artist's depictions of the Agony in the Garden and the Presentation to the Temple-this study reveals that neither Mantegna's nor Bellini's achievements can be fully understood in isolation and that their continuous creative exchanges shaped the work of both. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery, London (10/01/18-01/27/19) Gemaldegalerie, Berlin (03/01/19-06/30/19)

Renaissance Splendor - Catherine de' Medici's Valois Tapestries (Hardcover): Elizabeth Cleland, Marjorie E. Wieseman Renaissance Splendor - Catherine de' Medici's Valois Tapestries (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Cleland, Marjorie E. Wieseman; Contributions by Francesca De Luca, Alessandra Griffo, Costanza Perrone Da Zara, …
R963 Discovery Miles 9 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of the most extravagant sets of hangings produced in the 16th century. The precise circumstances surrounding the tapestries' commission and their arrival at the Medici court in Florence, as well as the significance of the specific scenes depicted, however, have eluded scholars for years. Presenting new research into the political maneuvering of the Valois and Medici courts and providing extensive physical analysis gathered during a recent cleaning of the tapestries, this volume offers brand new insight into why these magnificent works were made and what they represent. Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Cleveland Museum of Art (11/18/18-01/21/19)

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