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

Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna (Hardcover): Babette Bohn Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna (Hardcover)
Babette Bohn
R1,712 R1,615 Discovery Miles 16 150 Save R97 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the 2022 Prose Award (Art History & Criticism) from the Association of American Publishers This groundbreaking book seeks to explain why women artists were far more numerous, diverse, and successful in early modern Bologna than elsewhere in Italy. They worked as painters, sculptors, printmakers, and embroiderers; many obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subjects to which women were traditionally confined. Babette Bohn asks why that was the case in this particular place and at this particular time. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bohn investigates an astonishing sixty-eight women artists, including Elisabetta Sirani and Lavinia Fontana. The book identifies and explores the factors that facilitated their success, including local biographers who celebrated women artists in new ways, an unusually diverse system of artistic patronage that included citizens from all classes, the impact of Bologna’s venerable university, an abundance of women writers, and the frequency of self-portraits and signed paintings by many women artists. In tracing the evolution of Bologna’s female artists from nun-painters to working professionals, Bohn proposes new attributions and interpretations of their works, some of which are reproduced here for the first time. Featuring original methodological models, innovative and historically grounded insights, and new documentation, this book will be a crucial resource for art historians, historians, and women’s studies scholars and students.

Kurfürstliche Garderobe - Museumsführer durch die Rüstkammer Dresden (Paperback): Jutta Charlotte Von Bloh, Christine Nagel,... Kurfürstliche Garderobe - Museumsführer durch die Rüstkammer Dresden (Paperback)
Jutta Charlotte Von Bloh, Christine Nagel, Viktoria Pisareva; Edited by Marius Winzeler, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die im Nordflügel des Dresdner Residenzschlosses eingerichtete Dauerausstellung stellt die aus dem Besitz der sächsischen Kurfürsten und Kurfürstinnen überlieferten Prunkgewänder der Zeit um 1550 bis 1650 vor. Dieser einzigartige Schatz europäischer Mode- und Textilgeschichte der Renaissance und des Frühbarock ist nach über 80 Jahren Deponierung und langjährigen Konservierungs- und Restaurierungsmaßnahmen wieder der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Der Ausstellungsführer würdigt erstmals dieses an Seide, Gold und Silber reiche Ensemble. Er berücksichtigt alle ausgestellten Herrschergewänder, worunter sich vollständige Kostümensembles, Anzüge mit Wams und Hose, Damenkleider sowie einzelne Gewandstücke befinden, und stellt auch die dazu präsentierten Bildnisse, Accessoires und preziösen Prunkwaffengarnituren vor. Kleider machen Leute – Kleider machen Politik: Herrscherkostüme und Haute Couture aus der Zeit zwischen 1550 und 1650

Disharmony of the Spheres - The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors (Hardcover): Jennifer Nelson Disharmony of the Spheres - The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors (Hardcover)
Jennifer Nelson
R2,293 Discovery Miles 22 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Anxious about the threat of Ottoman invasion and a religious schism that threatened Christianity from within, sixteenth-century northern Europeans increasingly saw their world as disharmonious and full of mutual contradictions. Examining the work of four unusual but influential northern Europeans as they faced Europe’s changing identity, Jennifer Nelson reveals the ways in which these early modern thinkers and artists grappled with the problem of cultural, religious, and cosmological difference in relation to notions of universals and the divine. Focusing on northern Europe during the first half of the sixteenth century, this book proposes a complementary account of a Renaissance and Reformation for which epistemology is not so much destabilized as pluralized. Addressing a wide range of media—including paintings, etchings and woodcuts, university curriculum regulations, clocks, sundials, anthologies of proverbs, and astrolabes—Nelson argues that inconsistency, discrepancy, and contingency were viewed as fundamental features of worldly existence. Taking as its starting point Hans Holbein’s famously complex double portrait The Ambassadors, and then examining Philipp Melanchthon’s measurement-minded theology of science, Georg Hartmann’s modular sundials, and Desiderius Erasmus’s eclectic Adages, Disharmony of the Spheres is a sophisticated and challenging reconsideration of sixteenth-century northern European culture and its discomforts. Carefully researched and engagingly written, Disharmony of the Spheres will be of vital interest to historians of early modern European art, religion, science, and culture.

Albrecht Durer and the Embodiment of Genius - Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover): Jeffrey Chipps Smith Albrecht Durer and the Embodiment of Genius - Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
R2,337 Discovery Miles 23 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the nineteenth century, Albrecht Durer's art, piety, and personal character were held up as models to inspire contemporary artists and-it was hoped-to return Germany to international artistic eminence. In this book, Jeffrey Chipps Smith explores Durer's complex posthumous reception during the great century of museum building in Europe, with a particular focus on the artist's role as a creative and moral exemplar for German artists and museum visitors. In an era when museums were emerging as symbols of civic, regional, and national identity, dozens of new national, princely, and civic museums began to feature portraits of Durer in their elaborate decorative programs embellishing the facades, grand staircases, galleries, and ceremonial spaces. Most of these arose in Germany and Austria, though examples can be seen as far away as St. Petersburg, Stockholm, London, and New York City. Probing the cultural, political, and educational aspirations and rivalries of these museums and their patrons, Smith traces how Durer was painted, sculpted, and prominently placed to accommodate the era's diverse needs and aspirations. He investigates what these portraits can tell us about the rise of a distinct canon of famous Renaissance and Baroque artists-addressing the question of why Durer was so often paired with Raphael, who was considered to embody the greatness of Italian art-and why, with the rise of German nationalism, Hans Holbein the Younger often replaced Raphael as Durer's partner. Accessibly written and comprehensive in scope, this book sheds new light on museum building in the nineteenth century and the rise of art history as a discipline. It will appeal to specialists in nineteenth-century and early modern art, the history of museums and collecting, and art historiography.

Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses (Paperback): Rudolf Steiner Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner; Translated by Rory Bradley; Introduction by Stephen Sagarin
R1,090 R1,000 Discovery Miles 10 000 Save R90 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Timelines of Art (Hardcover): Dk Timelines of Art (Hardcover)
Dk
R799 R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Save R94 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This beautiful book brings you the very best of art throughout history - using a truly innovative timeline-led approach. Savour iconic paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies, and discover less well-known artists, styles, and movements the world over - from Indigenous Australian art to the works of Ming-era China. And explore recurring themes, such as love and religion, and important genres from Romanesque to Conceptual art, along the way. Timelines of Art provides detailed analysis of the works of key artists, showing details of their technique - such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalised society, and it traces how certain artists, genres or movements informed the works of others - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, or how Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese prints. Comprehensive, accessible, and lavishly illustrated throughout, Timelines of Art is an essential guide to the pantheon of world art, so dive straight into discover: - An overview of each movement, including the social and cultural background of the period, grounds the works of art in the spirit of their times. - Turning-point paintings that triggered or epitomised each artistic movement are identified and explained, against a backdrop of influences - the technical advances, admired techniques of an earlier artist, and changes in society that enabled new directions in art. - Glossary of technical terms and comprehensive index help make this an indispensable work of reference for any art-lover. Timelines of Art is the perfect art history book for students of art and/or history, proving ideal for families, schools and libraries and doubling up as a great gift for the art lover in your life.

Festungen in Bayern (German, Paperback): Daniel Burger Festungen in Bayern (German, Paperback)
Daniel Burger
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Veiled Presence - Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian (Hardcover): Paul Hills Veiled Presence - Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian (Hardcover)
Paul Hills
R1,475 Discovery Miles 14 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury dress was a marker of status. Florentines decked out their palaces and streets with textiles for public rituals. But cloths are also the stuff of fantasy: throughout the book, the author moves from the material to the metaphorical. Curtains and veils, swaddling and shrouds, evoke associations with birth and death. The central chapters address the sculpture of Ghiberti and Donatello, focusing on how they deployed drapery to dramatic effect. In the final chapters the focus shifts to the paintings of Bellini, Lotto, and Titian, where drapery both clothes the figures and composes the picture. In the work of Titian, the veiled presence of the body is absorbed within the materials of oil-paint on canvas: medium and subject become one.

The Art of the Renaissance (Paperback): Peter Murray, Linda Murray The Art of the Renaissance (Paperback)
Peter Murray, Linda Murray
R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artistic ferment which had taken hold of Florence by 1420 was also reflected in the regional schools of Siena, Umbria, Mantua and Rome; and the new ideas spread from Italy through France, the Netherlands, Austria, Spain and Portugal. The book includes artists as diverse as Piero della Francesca, Van Eyck, Durer, Mantegna and Bellini, as well as the High Renaissance masters Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. With superb illustrations of the artists' work and crucial historical information about the "rebirth" of arts and letters, the authors illuminate one of the most important periods of art history. 251 illus., 51 in color.

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback, Revised): Jacob Burckhardt The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback, Revised)
Jacob Burckhardt; Introduction by Peter Burke; Translated by S. Middlemore
R372 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R34 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, Burckhardt explores the political and psychological forces that marked the beginning of the modern world.

Virtue and Beauty - Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women (Paperback): David Alan Brown Virtue and Beauty - Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women (Paperback)
David Alan Brown
R1,429 Discovery Miles 14 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Included are many of the finest portraits of women (and a few of men) by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci--whose remarkable double-sided portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, which departs notably from tradition, is the focus of special attention.

It was in Florence during this period that portraiture expanded beyond the realm of rulers and their consorts to encompass women of the merchant class. This phenomenon, long known to scholars, is here presented to a larger audience for the first time. The catalogue, which accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, traces how the humanist praise of women influenced and enlivened their depiction. It also considers how meaningful costumes and settings were chosen. Works from outside Florence by such masters as Pisanello, Rogier van der Weyden, and Ercole Roberti shed additional light on the evolution of female portraiture during the century from c. 1440 to c. 1540.

An introduction by editor and exhibition organizer David Alan Brown and four engaging essays by other experts on Renaissance art--Dale Kent, Joanna Woods-Marsden, Mary Westerman Bulgarella and Roberta Orsi Landini, and Victoria Kirkham--perfectly complement the more than one hundred illustrations, which include ninety-seven full-color plates. The catalogue entries are concise while revealing the key aspects of each portrait--from style and sources to ongoing scholarly debates. This elegant, enlightening book is itself a telling portrait not only of the art but also of the broader issues of women's freedom, responsibility, and individuality in a most exceptional era.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
September 30, 2001-January 6, 2002

Make a Joyful Noise - Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral (Hardcover): Gary M Radke Make a Joyful Noise - Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral (Hardcover)
Gary M Radke; Contributions by Gabriele Giacomelli, Patrick Macey, Marica Tacconi; Afterword by Timothy Verdon
R1,118 Discovery Miles 11 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Florence Cathedral, familiarly called Il Duomo, is an architectural masterpiece and home to celebrated works of art. The interrelationship between the brilliant art and architecture and the Cathedral's musical program is explored in depth in this beautiful book. Perhaps the most beloved example is Luca della Robbia's sculptural program for the organ loft, comprising ten sculptural relief panels that depict children singing, dancing, and making music. Luca's charming sculptures are examined alongside luxurious illuminated manuscripts commissioned for musical performances. Essays by distinguished scholars provide new insights into the original function and meaning of Luca's sculptures; organs and organists during the 15th century; the roles played by women and girls-as well as men and boys-in making music throughout Renaissance Florence; and the Cathedral's illuminated choir books. Published in association with the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Exhibition Schedule: High Museum of Art, Atlanta (10/25/14-01/11/15) Detroit Institute of Arts (02/06/15-05/17/15)

Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting - A Study in Material Culture (Paperback): Rembrandt Duits Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting - A Study in Material Culture (Paperback)
Rembrandt Duits
R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lorenzo de' Medici at Home - The Inventory of the Palazzo Medici in 1492 (Paperback): Richard Stapleford Lorenzo de' Medici at Home - The Inventory of the Palazzo Medici in 1492 (Paperback)
Richard Stapleford
R921 R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Save R259 (28%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici was the head of the ruling political party at the apogee of the golden age of Quattrocento Florence. Born in 1449, his life was shaped by privilege and responsibility, and his deeds as a statesman were legendary even while he lived. At his death he was master of the largest and most famous private palace in Florence, a building crammed full of the household goods of four generations of Medici as well as the most extraordinary collections of art, antiquities, books, jewelry, coins, cameos, and rare vases in private hands. His heirs undertook an inventory of the estate, a usual procedure following the demise of an important head of family. An anonymous clerk, pen and paper in hand, walked through the palace from room to room, counting and recording the barrels of wine and the water urns; opening cabinets and chests; unfolding and examining clothes, fabrics, and tapestries; describing the paintings he saw on the walls; and unlocking jewel boxes and weighing and evaluating coins, medals, necklaces, brooches, rings, and cameos. The original document he produced has been lost, but a copy was made by another clerk in 1512. Richard Stapleford's critical translation of this document offers the reader a window onto the world of the Medici family, their palace, and the material culture that surrounded them.

Mattia Preti (Hardcover): Keith Sciberras Mattia Preti (Hardcover)
Keith Sciberras
R4,547 Discovery Miles 45 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2013 will mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the artist Mattia Preti (1613-1699), who spent forty years of his working life in Malta. Midsea Books, in collaboration with the Department of History of Art at the University of Malta, are working together to publish an outstanding book that discusses critically the artist s oeuvre in Malta. Research for this superb book is co-ordinated by Professor Keith Sciberras, who is also the author of the two critical essays which compose the first part of the book. Over 150 catalogue entries are co-authored by Professor Sciberras and Ms Jessica Borg M.A. The book will include over 270 paintings. The images of the paintings in Malta are being taken purposely for this book by master photographer Mr Joe P. Borg. Born in Taverna, Calabria, in 1613, Mattia Preti emerged as a leading exponent of the forceful Baroque of mid-17th century Italy, working in a tradition which brilliantly captured the characteristics of monumental dynamism and theatrical appeal. An extraordinary draughtsman and painterly virtuoso, he was quick with his brush and produced hundreds of pictures which spanned a career of some seventy years. His life-story can be easily and neatly divided in an early training and first maturity in Rome, his mid-years in Naples, and the nearly four decades that he spent on Malta between 1661 and his death in 1699. An artist-knight, his life was also conditioned by his membership in the chivalric Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta. Preti s works for St John s Conventual Church inspired a major transformation within the church. The Baroque re-decoration programme which Preti was to direct transformed the interior of the Conventual Church into one of the most important nodes of Baroque art South of Rome. Preti was to assume responsibility of painting the entire ceiling and many altar paintings and lunettes. Moreover, he produced designs for the carved decoration that spread throughout the church walls, the inlaid marble slabs for the flooring and ephemera. Preti s residency on the island did not go unnoticed and his circle of admirers grew beyond the circle of the Knights of Malta. The church and private patrons were attracted to his work. Owning a painting by the artist grew to become a desideratum. The artist s technique and method of painting was fast and he could rapidly execute large scale works. His inventive genius kept up with the pace of his technique and the artist thus produced a large corpus of paintings. This lavish publication, which will mark the 400th anniversary from the master s birth, will be another outstanding contribution to all enthusiast of Maltese art and history."

The Controversy of Renaissance Art (Hardcover, New): Alexander Nagel The Controversy of Renaissance Art (Hardcover, New)
Alexander Nagel
R2,162 Discovery Miles 21 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many studies have shown that images--their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses--were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it affects the art of Italy has been raised only in highly specialized studies.

In this book, Alexander Nagel provides the first truly synthetic study of the controversies over religious images that pervaded Italian life both before and parallel to the Reformation north of the Alps. Tracing the intertwined relationship of artistic innovation and archaism, as well as the new pressures placed on the artistic media in the midst of key developments in religious iconography, "The Controversy of Renaissance Art "offers an important and original history of humanist thought and artistic experimentation from one of our most acclaimed historians of art.

The Italian Renaissance of Machines (Hardcover): Paolo Galluzzi The Italian Renaissance of Machines (Hardcover)
Paolo Galluzzi; Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum
R920 Discovery Miles 9 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine. When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no-less-impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this rich and lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period, capturing the fusion of artistry and engineering that spurred some of the Renaissance's greatest technological breakthroughs. Galluzzi traces the emergence of a new and important historical figure: the artist-engineer. In the medieval world, innovators remained anonymous. By the height of the fifteenth century, artist-engineers like Leonardo da Vinci were sought after by powerful patrons, generously remunerated, and exhibited in royal and noble courts. In an age that witnessed continuous wars, the robust expansion of trade and industry, and intense urbanization, these practitioners-with their multiple skills refined in the laboratory that was the Renaissance workshop-became catalysts for change. Renaissance masters were not only astoundingly creative but also championed a new concept of learning, characterized by observation, technical know-how, growing mathematical competence, and prowess at the draftsman's table. The Italian Renaissance of Machines enriches our appreciation for Taccola, Giovanni Fontana, and other masters of the quattrocento and reveals how da Vinci's ambitious achievements paved the way for Galileo's revolutionary mathematical science of mechanics.

Titian (Paperback): Ian G Kennedy Titian (Paperback)
Ian G Kennedy
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488-1576), commonly known as Titian, and the figurehead of 16th-century Venetian painting. With his bold approach to form and startling, opulent colors, Titian worked with a number of prestigious commissions and left behind an astonishing repertoire of portraits, mythological scenes, altarpieces, and landscapes that remains one of the most important legacies of Renaissance art. This dependable artist introduction traces Titian's complete career and its trailblazing influence on successive generations of artists, from Diego Velazquez to van Dyck. From the rippling sensuality of Venus of Urbino (c. 1488-1576) to the airborne dynamism of Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-1523), all the major works are here, charting the artist's stylistic experimentation over time as well as his consistent and unique ability to work across genres and to bring a defining new level of emotional and spiritual aspect to his subjects. "Titian has the finest talent and a very pleasant, vivacious manner." - Michelangelo.

Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance - The Varieties of Architectural Experience (Hardcover): David Karmon Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance - The Varieties of Architectural Experience (Hardcover)
David Karmon
R2,670 Discovery Miles 26 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with the built environment. His book draws upon the close study of literary and visual sources to prove that early modern audiences paid sustained attention to the multisensory experience of the buildings and cities in which they lived. Through reconstructing the Renaissance understanding of the senses, we can better gauge how constant interaction with the built environment shaped daily practices and contributed to new forms of understanding. Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance offers a stimulating new approach to the study of Renaissance architecture and urbanism as a kind of 'experiential trigger' that shaped ways of both thinking and being in the world.

Renaissance 1420-1600 (Hardcover): Kristina Menzel, Uschi Baetz, Ruth Dangelmaier, Uta Hasekamp, Daniel Kiecol Renaissance 1420-1600 (Hardcover)
Kristina Menzel, Uschi Baetz, Ruth Dangelmaier, Uta Hasekamp, Daniel Kiecol
R1,577 R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Save R172 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

During the origin of Renaissance painting in Italy, a world view was revived that enabled man to determine his own existence. In painting, new themes developed along with an orientation toward representing reality. This naturalism was influenced by Dutch painting from around 1450, and as the fifteenth century transitioned into the sixteenth, Rome followed Florence as the center of the Renaissance. Shortly thereafter, the new style radiated to other countries. In northern Europe, the Renaissance combined with late medieval currents, which also placed earthly existence at the center of attention. Renaissance 1420-1600 shows with more than 400 works an overview of the most important paintings of the era.

Masaccio - Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece (Paperback): Rowlands Masaccio - Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece (Paperback)
Rowlands
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ranked by many scholars as the greatest master of early Italian Renaissance painting, Masaccio (1401-1428) was the first artist to use effects of light to create three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional plane. This achievement, revolutionary in Masaccio's day, is one of the painter's significant contributions to art history.
This book explores Masaccio's accomplishment as epitomized by the multipaneled painting of which the Saint Andrew panel is thought to have once formed a part: the Pisa Altarpiece, one of the truly great polyptychs in the history of Italian Renaissance art, produced in 1426 for a chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Pisa.
The text discusses Masaccio's short life and illustrious career; the commission for the altarpiece; its patron and program; the painting's original location; and the role that the church friars played in the actual commission. Finally, after examining the polyptych's individual panels, the book traces their subsequent history and recounts how art historians came to identify them.

Italian Renaissance Architecture (Hardcover): Marco Bussagli Italian Renaissance Architecture (Hardcover)
Marco Bussagli
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, theorized by artists such as Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti, influenced styles and trends of the following centuries throughout Europe and beyond. This volume offers a comprehensive compilation of Italian Renaissnace architecture--richly documented, illustrated, arranged by region, and including a glossary.

Opera Nova - Livre 3 (French, Paperback): Aurelien Calonne, Achille Marozzo Opera Nova - Livre 3 (French, Paperback)
Aurelien Calonne, Achille Marozzo
R589 Discovery Miles 5 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Leonardo - Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed): Martin Kemp Leonardo - Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Martin Kemp
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated artistic genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us.
Martin Kemp offers us exceptional insights into what it was that made this Renaissance man so special, and the "real" meaning behind such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Tracing Leonardo's career in all its variety, we learn of his unfulfilled dreams, relationships with powerful patrons, and the truth about his views on God, humanity, and nature. The famous notebooks are the key to understanding the secret of Leonardo's success and genius, Kemp shows, as they clearly reveal the workings of his mind and display the truly innovative and investigative nature of his creative vision. In these notebooks, over 20,000 pages of drawings and notes detail his incredible discoveries and inventions--from the workings of the human eye to designs for flying machines and giant crossbows. Bringing the story up to the present day, Martin Kemp considers what he means to us today, investigates the "Leonardo industry," and speculates about what he would be doing if he were alive today.
This updated edition of Martin Kemp's best-seller is the first book on Leonardo to include two newly discovered works, the most important such discoveries in over a hundred years.

O Manuelino - A descoberta da arte do tempo de D. Manuel I. (Portuguese, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Pedro Dias, Dalila Rodrigues,... O Manuelino - A descoberta da arte do tempo de D. Manuel I. (Portuguese, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Pedro Dias, Dalila Rodrigues, Fernando Grilo
R751 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Save R52 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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