History - Renaissance
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Bosch
$20.00 Add to cartAs 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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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
$38.00 Add to cartEuropean 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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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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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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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life – Bollingen Series XXXV: 57
$71.00 Add to cartA 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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Northern Renaissance Art
$33.99 Add to cartThis book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixte… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of Art (Paperback)
- Author: Nash, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0192842692
- Language: English
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Donatello: The Renaissance
$65.00 Read moreA beautiful appraisal of the Renaissance sculptor’s achievements, contextualized with works by his contemporaries
The first thorough overview of the artist in many years, Donatello: The Renaissance rec
- Author: Donatello
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 9791254630068
- 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 Read moreBefore reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pietà 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 Add to cartA 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 Add to cartCelebrated 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
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Leonardo, Frida and the Others: The History of Art, 800 Years – 100 Artists
$35.00 Add to cartThis fresh and engaging, illustrated history of art explains the fundamentals every art lover needs while presenting the development of different schools and styles as one continuous, astonishing time… [more below]
- Author: Jouneaux, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377183
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
$11.95 Add to cartThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pater, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199535078
- Language: English
