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"You've never read a manual as warm, friendly, liberating,
thorough, and potentially sex-life-changing as the Guide To Getting
It On! Neither had anyone in our office―which may be why our
copies keep disappearing." ― Oprah Magazine "Finally. A book
about sex you'll actually want to read!" ― Playboy Few people had
heard of Bumble and Hinge when the last edition of the "Guide to
Getting It On" went to press four years ago. No one would have
guessed that Chaturbate would become the 28th most popular website
in the US, or that women in college would pay for their tuition by
selling pics and panties on a website called OnlyFans. And good
luck to any guy who calls a woman to ask her for a date instead of
texting, because she'll probably think he's a stalker. Anyone who
says "Why does a book on sex need a new edition?" needs to throw
away their flip phone. Today's young adults are the first
generation who began watching the most explicit porn in history on
their phones in Middle School. They have very different
expectations and needs from a book on sex, and those needs are
changing as rapidly as technology is changing. There have been
hundreds of studies done in the past four years on everything from
female orgasms to how semen influences a woman's immune system to
not kill sperm. You'll find it all in this new edition of The
Guide. And the new chapter on consent will hopefully do a much
better job of helping you understand what consent is and isn't than
Title IX with its strange little slogans.
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Raphael (Paperback)
Paul Joannides
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R565
R452
Discovery Miles 4 520
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An authoritative introduction to one of the most influential
painters in the history of art, written by the pre-eminent
authority on the subject and informed by the latest research. More
versatile and less idiosyncratic than Michelangelo, more prolific
and accessible than his mentor Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, though
he died at only thirty-seven, is considered the single most
influential artist of the Renaissance. Here, art historian Paul
Joannides explores the different social and regional contexts of
Raphael's work and discusses all aspects of his artistic output. He
traces Raphael's career from his origins in Urbino, through his
altarpieces made in Umbria in the shadow of Perugino, to the first
flowering of his genius in Florence where he painted a series of
iconic Madonnas that are among the most beloved images in Western
art. Raphael's employment by the dynamic and demanding Pope Julius
II gave him opportunities without parallel and encouraged the full
expansion of his genius. As a sophisticate entrepreneur, he
dominated Rome's artistic life and extended the range of his
activities to that of architect, designer, pioneer archaeologist
and theoretician. The foundation of Raphael's versatility and range
was his supreme clarity of mind as a draughtsman. Knowledge of his
drawings, on which Joannides is a leading expert, is central to
understanding of his achievement, and they are thoroughly explored
here.
Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors
and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A
monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo,
it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in the hands of
individual masters. This illustrated standalone edition of Vasari's
Life of Raphael offers a new translation of this rich and
remarkable 'Life', elegantly rendering Vasari's literary text in
modern terms. A work of authoritative skill and precision, the
translation preserves Vasari's compelling narrative, while
beautifully reproduced illustrations bring it newly to life.
Editors Paul Joannides and Rick Scorza bring together the original
and expanded Italian editions of 1550 and 1568, with succinct
commentary drawing upon their expert knowledge of Raphael's career.
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Michelangelo & Sebastiano (Hardcover)
Matthias Wivel; Contributions by Costanza Barbieri, Piers Baker-bates, Paul Joannides, Silvia Danesi Squarzina, …
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R1,165
Discovery Miles 11 650
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The first publication to consider the relationship between these
two major artists of the High Renaissance Through most of
Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the
great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 -1541). The two
men met in Rome in 1511, shortly after Sebastiano's arrival from
his native city, and while Michelangelo was based in Florence from
1516 to 1534 Sebastiano remained one of his Roman confidants,
painting several works after partial designs by him. This landmark
publication is about the artists' extraordinary professional
alliance and the friendship that underpinned it. It situates them
in the dramatic context of their time, tracing their evolving
artistic relationship through more than three decades of creative
dialogue. Matthias Wivel and other leading scholars investigate
Michelangelo's profound influence on Sebastiano and the Venetian
artist's highly original interpretation of his friend's formal and
thematic concerns. The lavishly illustrated text examines their
shared preoccupation with the depiction of death and resurrection,
primarily in the life of Christ, through a close analysis of
drawings, paintings, and sculpture. The book also brings the
austerely beautiful work of Sebastiano to a new audience, offering
a reappraisal of this less famous but most accomplished artist.
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale
University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London
(03/15/17-06/25/17)
The names of Masaccio (1401-28) and Masolino (1383-1440) are
inseparable, and their collaboration is an essential starting point
for the study of either artist. Masaccio's Holy Trinity and the
recently cleaned collaborative frescos in the Brancacci Chapel in
Florence are key works in the development of Western art. Paul
Joannides' catalogue raisonne forms a uniquely authoritative and
perfectly up-to-date study of the total oeuvre of both artists.
Composed with lucidity and richly illustrated, it makes accessible
to all lovers of art - from the connoisseur to the casual reader -
some of the greatest paintings of the early Renaissance, and most
momentous works of Western painting.
This volume comprises the fullest and most detailed catalogue of
the drawings by and after Michelangelo in the Ashmolean Museum. It
is one of the most important collections of drawings by this
artist, which also includes drawings after his own by
contemporaries that shed light on lost works as well as the
artist's reputation and influence during the sixteenth century. The
introduction provides a history of Michelangelo's drawings
generally and also surveys the various types of drawing practised
by Michelangelo and an account of his development as a draughtsman.
Most of the drawings in the Ashmolean Museum came from the
collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and this book contains a
detailed appendix that traces the histories of all of the drawings
by or after Michelangelo that Lawrence owned, both before he
acquired them and after they were dispersed.
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