Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan |
 Evelyn S. Welch
ISBN: 0300063512
Milan was one of the largest and most important cities in Renaissance Italy. This study explores the city itself, showing how the allegiances of the town hall and the parish related to those of the servants and aristocrats who frequented the Visconti...(read more) |
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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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Baroque Painting in Genoa |
 Gabriele Finaldi
ISBN: 1857099664
An investigation of Baroque painting from Genoa. It features the work of both native-born artists such as Bernado Strozzi and Valerio Castello, and those influential outside painters, including Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck, who lived and...(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: 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: 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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Rome |
 Art & Architecture S.
ISBN: 3833114843
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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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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The Sistine Chapel: A Glorious Restoration (Abradale S.) |
 Michael Hirst, Gianluigi Colalucci, Fabrizio Mancinelli, John Shearman
ISBN: 0810981769
This text celebrates the nine-year restoration of one of the world's greatest masterpieces. The painting's original vivid colours are reproduced in all their glory, accompanied by authoritative essays. |
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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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