Aristotle, Galileo, And The Tower Of Pisa |
 Lane Cooper
ISBN: 1406752630
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Art in Renaissance Italy |
 John T. Paolettii, Gary M. Radke
ISBN: 1856694399
With a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures. It covers Rome and Florence, Venice and the Veneto, Assisi,...(read more) |
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Botticelli: Life and Work |
 R.W. Lightbown
ISBN: 0896599310
Reassesses Botticelli's major works, examines his use of color, and traces his career as an artist. |
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David: Michelangelo |
 Antonio Paolucci, Aurelio Amendola
ISBN: 1903973996
Michelangelo's classic "David" is one of the world's most recognisable sculptures, a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance that is also a pop-culture icon. In "Michelangelo's David", this timeless work is presented in an intriguing...(read more) |
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Duccio: The Maesta |
 Luciano Bellosi
ISBN: 0500237719
A study of Duccio's Maesta (Virgin in Majesty). The Maesta was painted between 1308 and 1311 by Duccio di Buoninsegna for the high altar of Siena Cathedral. The volume contains photographs of the different sections of the great altarpiece, both the...(read more) |
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Florence (Art & Architecture) |
 Rolf C. Wirtz
ISBN: 3833114819
Compact yet substantial - The volumes from the "Art and Architecture" series pack a wallop. They give many a hefty volume a run for its money as far as impact and density of information are concerned. Each volume is beautifully illustrated...(read more) |
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Florence (Art & Architecture) |
 Carlo Cresti, Antonio Paolucci, Angelo Tartuferi, Marco Chiarini, Mario Scalini, Clarissa Morandi, Silvestra Bietoletti, Anna Maria Giusti
ISBN: 3833119896
This book is an invitation to a luxury-class journey into art, to an excursion into the artistic history of an exciting and magnificent city, seen here from its most splendid side. Florence - nowhere else are so many art works of the first order to be...(read more) |
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Italian Cinema |
 Mary P. Wood
ISBN: 1845201620
Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas. Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient history to the mafia, the family, the Risorgimento,...(read more) |
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Italian Opera (National Traditions of Opera S.) |
 David R. B. Kimbell
ISBN: 0521466431
Italy was the birthplace of opera. In this authoritative and accessible account of Italian opera, David Kimbell introduces the composers and dramatists, the singers and audiences who, over three hundred years, have created not only a national tradition...(read more) |
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Leonardo DA Vinci on the Human Body: The Anatomical, the Physiological and Embryological Drawings of Leonardo DA Vinci |
 Charles O'Malley
ISBN: 0517381052
An impressive collection of the works of the noted Renaissance artist and inventor presents his amazingly detailed anatomical, physiological, and embryological...(read more) |
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Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence |
 David Franklin
ISBN: 0888848048
The decades from 1500 to 1550 in Florence encompassed one of the most original and outstanding periods in the entire history of art. This gloriously illustrated book gathers and describes many of the beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures created...(read more) |
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Leonardo: The Artist and the Man |
 Serge Bramly, Sian Reynolds (Translator)
ISBN: 0140231757
With the aid of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, as well as a wide variety of sources, this biography covers the full life of the great Renaissance painter and architect. It is an account of Leonardo, both as an artist and as an individual. The book...(read more) |
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Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master |
 Hugo Chapman
ISBN: 0714126489
Michelangelo, the greatest of Renaissance artists, was active as a sculptor, painter and architect. Aside from a few unfinished paintings and a handful of marbles north of the Alps, his genius can only be appreciated outside of Florence and Rome through...(read more) |
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Michelangelo: Sculptor Painter Architect |
 Elena Caretti
ISBN: 0715326759
This compact volume features details of Michelangelo's life and creations from his magnificent sculptures and paintings to his intricate drawings. Brimming with beautiful illustrations, this is an indespensible guide to the life and work of a true genius. |
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Michelangelo: The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel |
 Marcia B. Hall, Takashi Okamura (Photographer)
ISBN: 0810935309
Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel - the great glory of Vatican art and one of the most treasured masterpieces of Western painting - provide a visual feast for art lovers in this magnificent, affordable new book. Presenting a complete...(read more) |
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Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art |
 Richard Turner
ISBN: 0131344013
For courses in Renaissance Art. This text offers an incisive and original account of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Florentine art in its social, cultural, political, geographic, economic and religious settings. Ranging in scope from monumental and...(read more) |
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Renaissance Siena: Art for a City |
 Luke Syson, Alessandro Angelini, Philippa Jackson, Fabrizio Nevola
ISBN: 1857093925
Sienese art was very deliberately shaped and sustained by the patronage of powerful and wealthy families, such as the Petrucci, Piccolomini and the Spannochi, to provide an artistic language for an ambitious city. These commissions drew on Siena's famed...(read more) |
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The Life of Michelangelo |
 Ascanio Condivi, Alice Sedgwick Wohl (Translator)
ISBN: 0271018534
Ascanio Condivi, a young pupil of and assistant to Michelangelo, gained the trust and respect of the great artist. This is a reissued translation of Condivi's account of Michelangelo's life. The biography is based to a large extent on the artist's...(read more) |
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Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa |
 Nicholas Shrady
ISBN: 0143034502
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Treasures of the Uffizi |
 Caterina Caneva
ISBN: 0789205750
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Tuscany |
 Art & Architecture
ISBN: 3833114878
Compact yet substantial - The volumes from the "Art and Architecture" series pack a wallop. They give many a hefty volume a run for its money as far as impact and density of information are concerned. Each volume is beautifully illustrated...(read more) |
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Uffizi: Art, History, Collections |
 Gloria Fossi
ISBN: 0715327186
A lasting historical record and easily accessible guide that is equally useful to the expert and the cultured tourist. The book is divided into chapters accompanied by superbly clear descriptions, splendid illustrations and brief supplementary...(read more) |
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Villas of Tuscany |
 Carlo Cresti, Massimo Listri
ISBN: 186064998X
Dotted across the ancient Tuscan landscape of rolling hills, olive groves, vineyards and towering cypress trees, sit some of the greatest country houses of Italy. They range from the grand villas and palaces of the Medici near Florence to the charming...(read more) |
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Women in Italian Renaissance Art |
 Paola Tinagli
ISBN: 071904054X
This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. The text is divided into five chapters with an introduction, which cover the following themes: women as protagonists of narratives in...(read more) |
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