History - Renaissance
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Anachronic Renaissance
$37.00 Add to cartIn this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians present a stunning reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. With intellectual brilliance, Alexander Nagel and
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Nagel, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1942130341
- Language: English
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Michelangelo and Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, God’s Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance, whose decades-long rivalry spurred both to greater heights
In 1529, Michelangel- Author: Wallace, William E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0691266573
- Language: English
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The Foreign Invention of British Art
$39.95 Add to cartTo truly understand British art is to recognize the pivotal contributions of the many foreign artists who have called Britain home. Traditional narratives have long obscured foreign influence, but thi
- Author: Primo, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0500024014
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life
$37.00 Add to cartHow our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern myth
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his ha- Author: Campbell, Stephen J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691193681
- Language: English
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Leonardo. the Complete Paintings. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartOne of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this bo
- Author: Z?llner, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 3836599902
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750
$34.95 Read moreLuminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art.
In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects
- Author: Rowland, Ingrid D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549093
- Language: English
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Bosch
$20.00 Read moreAs cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling cont
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836559862
- Language: English
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Notebooks
$12.95 Add to cartMost of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist’s eye an… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Leonardo Da Vinci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0199299021
- Language: English
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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life – Bollingen Series XXXV: 57
$75.00 Read moreA bold new interpretation of two northern Renaissance masters
In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pi- Author: Koerner, Joseph Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0691172285
- Language: English
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The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century
$44.95 Read moreA history of the relationship between art and geometry in the early modern period.
In The Polyhedrists, Noam Andrews unfolds a history of the relationship between art and geometry in early modern Euro- Author: Andrews, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046644
- Language: English
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Albert and the Whale: Albrecht D?er and How Art Imagines Our World
$16.95 Read moreAn illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale.
In 1520, Albrecht D?er, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed- Author: Hoare, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139479
- Language: English
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The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today
$16.99 Read moreA Profound New Look at the Italian Master and His Lasting Legacy
Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606 to escape retribut- Author: Ward, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1628728183
- Language: English
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By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800
$40.00 Read moreA brand new look at the extraordinary accomplishments of early modern Italian women artists
This generously illustrated volume surveys a sweeping range of early modern Italian women artists, explorin- Author: Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0300256361
- Language: English
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Michelangelo. the Complete Paintings, Sculptures and Arch.
$25.00 Add to cartBefore reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Piet? and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter,
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Zöllner, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 3836537168
- Language: English
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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
$38.00 Read moreEuropean narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Heuer, Christopher P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1942130147
- Language: English
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Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350
$50.00 Add to cartAn exploration of a crucial turning point in Italian art, the early 1300s in the city of Siena
In the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation.- Author: Cannon, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1857097165
- Language: English
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Geometry & Art: How Mathematics Transformed Art During the Renaissance
$24.95 Read moreA definitive look at how geometry changed the world of art forever.
Geometry & Art follows the artists of the Renaissance, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geomet- Author: Wade, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1627951059
- Language: English
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Shadow Drawing
$20.00 Add to cart“[The Shadow Drawing] reorients our perspective, distills a life and brings it into focus–the very work of revision and refining that its subject loved best.” –Parul Sehgal, The New York Times (Edit
- Author: Fiorani, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1250800218
- Language: English
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Amerasia
$40.00 Read moreA connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum
America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagin- Author: Horodowich, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 194213083X
- Language: English
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Titian: His Life and Works: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist in Context, with a Gallery of His Paintings and Drawings
$35.00 Read moreCelebrated for his use of expressive brush marks, which filled his paintings with dynamism, light and colour in a way not seen before in Renaissance art, Tiziano Veccellio became the greatest painter
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0754835537
- Language: English
