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

A Treatise on Fresco, Encaustic, and Tempera Painting - Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered at the Society of British... A Treatise on Fresco, Encaustic, and Tempera Painting - Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered at the Society of British Artists, and at the School of Design, Leicester Square, in the Years 1838-39-40 (Paperback)
Eugenio H Latilla
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fra Angelico (Paperback): James Mason Fra Angelico (Paperback)
James Mason
R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memling (Paperback): W H J Weale, J C Weale Memling (Paperback)
W H J Weale, J C Weale
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Kingdom of Images (Hardcover): Peter Furhing A Kingdom of Images (Hardcover)
Peter Furhing
R2,191 Discovery Miles 21 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Gallucci's Commentary on Durer's 'Four Books on Human Proportion' - Renaissance Proportion Theory... Gallucci's Commentary on Durer's 'Four Books on Human Proportion' - Renaissance Proportion Theory (Paperback)
Giovanni Paolo Gallucci; Translated by James Hutson
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Escorial - Art and Power in the Renaissance (Paperback): Henry Kamen The Escorial - Art and Power in the Renaissance (Paperback)
Henry Kamen
R1,383 Discovery Miles 13 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An acclaimed historian of Europe explores one of the world’s most iconic buildings and the monarch who created it Few buildings have played so central a role in Spain’s history as the monastery-palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Colossal in size and imposing—even forbidding—in appearance, the Escorial has invited and defied description for four centuries. Part palace, part monastery, part mausoleum, it has also served as a shrine, a school, a repository for thousands of relics, and one of the greatest libraries of its time. Constructed over the course of more than twenty years, the Escorial challenged and provoked, becoming for some a symbol of superstition and oppression, for others a “wonder of the world.” Now a World Heritage Site, it is visited by thousands of travelers every year. In this intriguing study, Henry Kamen looks at the circumstances that brought the young Philip II to commission construction of the Escorial in 1563. He explores Philip’s motivation, the influence of his travels, the meaning of the design, and its place in Spanish culture. It represents a highly engaging narrative of the high point of Spanish imperial dominance, in which contemporary preoccupations with art, religion, and power are analyzed in the context of this remarkable building.

Leonardo da Vinci (Paperback): Sigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci (Paperback)
Sigmund Freud
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 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

Giovanni Bellini (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.): Julia Davis Giovanni Bellini (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.)
Julia Davis
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fra Angelico - Art and Religion in the Renaissance (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.): Rosalind Mutter Fra Angelico - Art and Religion in the Renaissance (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.)
Rosalind Mutter
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Correggio (Paperback): Estelle M Hurll Correggio (Paperback)
Estelle M Hurll
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Architecture Gothic And Renaissance - Edited by Edward John Poynter (Paperback): Thomas Roger Smith Architecture Gothic And Renaissance - Edited by Edward John Poynter (Paperback)
Thomas Roger Smith; Edited by Edward John Poynter
R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Why Does Michelangelo Matter? - A Historian's Questions about the Visual Arts (Paperback): Theodore K. Rabb Why Does Michelangelo Matter? - A Historian's Questions about the Visual Arts (Paperback)
Theodore K. Rabb
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Michelangelo (Paperback): Romain Rolland Michelangelo (Paperback)
Romain Rolland
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Landsknect Coloring Book (Paperback): Marion McNealy Landsknect Coloring Book (Paperback)
Marion McNealy
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cleveland's Millionaires' Row (Hardcover): Alan F Dutka Cleveland's Millionaires' Row (Hardcover)
Alan F Dutka
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Iconoclysms - Shattered in Venice, Rome and Barcelona (Paperback): Timothy Noel Harris Iconoclysms - Shattered in Venice, Rome and Barcelona (Paperback)
Timothy Noel Harris; Photographs by Tara Key
R1,627 Discovery Miles 16 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Italian Renaissance Painting (Paperback): Ruth Dangelmaier Italian Renaissance Painting (Paperback)
Ruth Dangelmaier
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Italian Renaissance is one of the most important eras in Western art. Painters including Masaccio, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Titian brought about a fundamental renewal that influenced all of Europe. More than 50 of the most important artists up to 1600 are presented in this book with more than 270 color illustrations.

Durer (Paperback): Herbert E. A. Furst Durer (Paperback)
Herbert E. A. Furst
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Madonna in Art (Paperback): Estelle M Hurll The Madonna in Art (Paperback)
Estelle M Hurll
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leonardo Da Vinci (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.): James Pearson Leonardo Da Vinci (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.)
James Pearson
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Renaissance in Italy - The Fine Arts (Paperback): John Addington Symonds Renaissance in Italy - The Fine Arts (Paperback)
John Addington Symonds
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Miracles and Machines - A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend (Hardcover): Elizabeth King, W. David Todd Miracles and Machines - A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend (Hardcover)
Elizabeth King, W. David Todd; Photographs by Rosamond Purcell
R1,101 R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as “the monk.” The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to lore from the court of Philip II of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a humble Franciscan lay brother whose holy corpse was said to be agent to the miraculous cure of Spain’s crown prince as he lay dying in 1562. In tracking the origins of the monk and its legend, the authors visited archives, libraries, and museums across the United States and Europe, probing the paradox of a mechanical object performing an apparently spiritual act. They identified seven kindred automata from the same period, which, they argue, form a paradigmatic class of walking “prime movers,” unprecedented in their combination of visual and functional realism. While most of the literature on automata focuses on the Enlightenment, this enthralling narrative journeys back to the late Renaissance, when clockwork machinery was entirely new, foretelling the evolution of artificial life to come.

12 Days of Christmas (Paperback): Elizabeth J Jancewicz 12 Days of Christmas (Paperback)
Elizabeth J Jancewicz
R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Jesus (Paperback): Sandro Sehic The Art of Jesus (Paperback)
Sandro Sehic
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mary, Queen of Scots Colouring Book (Paperback): Roland Hui The Mary, Queen of Scots Colouring Book (Paperback)
Roland Hui; Illustrated by Dmitry Yakhovsky
R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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