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

Bruegel (Hardcover): Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen Bruegel (Hardcover)
Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen 1
R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, both notable for their vernacular language and attention to everyday, contemporary life. Immersing himself in rural or small-town communities, Bruegel is particularly notable for his depiction of peasant experience and folk culture, earning the artist nickname "Peasant Bruegel." Whether hunters shivering in the snow or a boisterous country fair, Bruegel raised the farming, festivals, gatherings, and games of peasant culture to the status of high art. Bruegel's imposing religious and moral subjects, meanwhile, such as The Triumph of Death and The Tower of Babel are as awestriking and influential today as they were in the 16th century, inspiring contemporary culture from The Lord of the Rings cinematic battle scenes to Don DeLillo's novel Underworld. From the corn harvest to the conversion of Saul, from quaint wedding processions to Christ's road to Calvary, this book brings together the rich range of Bruegel's subjects to introduce his powerful compositions of both biblical and earthly tableaux. 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

Leonardo Da Vinci the Book of Paint Volume 2 (Paperback): Bryan Strong Leonardo Da Vinci the Book of Paint Volume 2 (Paperback)
Bryan Strong
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 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.

Unicorn - Legendary Creature (Paperback): Lea Rawls Unicorn - Legendary Creature (Paperback)
Lea Rawls
R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Durer (Paperback): Herbert E. A. Furst Durer (Paperback)
Herbert E. A. Furst
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 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
Correggio (Paperback): Estelle M Hurll Correggio (Paperback)
Estelle M Hurll
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 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 Garden of Love - a Renaissance mystery (Paperback): Bill Lawson The Garden of Love - a Renaissance mystery (Paperback)
Bill Lawson
R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 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
German Modelbucher 1524 - 1556 - A compilation of eight German needlework and weaving pattern books (Paperback): Marion McNealy German Modelbucher 1524 - 1556 - A compilation of eight German needlework and weaving pattern books (Paperback)
Marion McNealy
R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480 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
Mattia Preti (Hardcover): Keith Sciberras Mattia Preti (Hardcover)
Keith Sciberras
R4,832 Discovery Miles 48 320 Ships in 12 - 19 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."

Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector (Hardcover): Susan Nalezyty Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector (Hardcover)
Susan Nalezyty
R1,705 Discovery Miles 17 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One of the most influential scholars of the Renaissance, Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) gained fame not only for his literary theory and poetry, but for his incredible collection of art and antiquities. Drawing on anecdotes from Bembo's letters and unpublished archival material, Susan Nalezyty analyzes how Bembo's collection functioned as a source of inspiration for artists like Titian and writers like Giovanni della Casa. As visitors to the collection marveled at the quality and variety of the displayed objects, Bembo encouraged investigations into the ways in which contemporary art compared with ancient objects. Often straddling the line between the visual and literary worlds, these critical discussions catalyzed artistic experiments that led to new modes of creative expression. This generously illustrated volume brings Bembo's collection to life and reveals its key role in the development of Renaissance artistic philosophy and historical study of the classical past.

Look to the Shore - Tintoretto, the Painting: Christ at the Sea of Galilee, the Meaning of Miracles and Paintings of the Life... Look to the Shore - Tintoretto, the Painting: Christ at the Sea of Galilee, the Meaning of Miracles and Paintings of the Life of Jesus (Paperback)
Elaine L. Wilson
R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Renaissance (Paperback): Walter Pater The Renaissance (Paperback)
Walter Pater
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Later Work of Titian (Paperback): Claude Phillips The Later Work of Titian (Paperback)
Claude Phillips
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Drei Schnittbucher - Three Austrian Master Tailor Books of the 16th Century (Paperback): Katherine Barich, Marion McNealy Drei Schnittbucher - Three Austrian Master Tailor Books of the 16th Century (Paperback)
Katherine Barich, Marion McNealy
R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In Art - A to Z (Paperback): Catherine McGrew Jaime In Art - A to Z (Paperback)
Catherine McGrew Jaime
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Origins of Visual Culture in the Islamic World - Aesthetics, Art and Architecture in Early Islam (Paperback): Mohammed... The Origins of Visual Culture in the Islamic World - Aesthetics, Art and Architecture in Early Islam (Paperback)
Mohammed Hamdouni Alami
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the intellectual thought, philosophy, art and culture of the era - and indeed subsequent ones - is evident. In the visual arts, for example, Hamdouni Alami argues that the theory of human proportions which the Ikwan al-Safa propounded (something very similar to those of da Vinci), helped shape the evolution of the philosophy of aesthetics, art and architecture in the tenth and eleventh centuries CE, in particular in Egypt under the Fatimid rulers. With its roots in Pythagorean and Neoplatonic views on the role of art and architecture, the impact of this theory of specific and precise proportion was widespread. One of the results of this extensive influence is a historic shift in the appreciation of art and architecture and their perceived role in the cultural sphere. The development of the understanding of the interplay between ethics and aesthetics resulted in a movement which emphasised more abstract and pious contemplation of art, as opposed to previous views which concentrated on the enjoyment of artistic works (such as music, song and poetry). And it is with this shift that we see the change in art forms from those devoted to supporting the Umayyad caliphs and the opulence of the Abbasids, to an art which places more emphasis on the internal concepts of 'reason' and 'spirituality'.Using the example of Fatimid art and views of architecture (including the first Fatimid mosque in al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia), Hamdouni Alami offers analysis of the debates surrounding the ethics and aesthetics of the appreciation of Islamic art and architecture from a vital time in medieval Middle Eastern history, and shows their similarity with aesthetic debates of Italian Renaissance.

Leonardo - A Return to Florence (Paperback): Catherine McGrew Jaime Leonardo - A Return to Florence (Paperback)
Catherine McGrew Jaime
R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Concordat The Paint by LIONARDO of VINCI. - Again given in light (Paperback): Bryan Strong Concordat The Paint by LIONARDO of VINCI. - Again given in light (Paperback)
Bryan Strong
R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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