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Art and Politics in Late Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Italy, 1250-1500 by: Charles M. Rosenberg

Art and Politics in Late Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Italy, 1250-1500
by: Charles M. Rosenberg

Hardcover. Notre Dame IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black and gilt. 227 pages plus a section of b&w plates in rear.. A series of nine papers delivered at a conference with the same name in 1988 at the University of Notre Dame. It considered the relationship between politics and the literary and visual arts. Political scientists and anthropologists focus on the institutions that express power relationships. The aim of the Notre Dame Conference was to consider the relationship between politics and the literary and visual arts. The visual arts considered in this volume range from the traditional fine arts categories of painting, sculpture and architecture to minor art objects such as medals, badges, banners and seals. In general terms, the study of politics denotes the study of power relationships. Within this larger framework political scientists and anthropologists have chosen to focus on the institutions and structures that express these relationships and/or the actions that are undertaken by individuals and groups to define, alter, or reinforce them. Clean copy.

Record # 383879

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Cezanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artist and Critics 1891-1921by: Rewald, John

Cezanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artist and Critics 1891-1921
by: Rewald, John

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy with minor wear to edges. Previous owner's notes in pencil near rear end paper.

Record # 368966

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Correggio's Frescoes in Parma Cathedralby: Smyth, Carolyn

Correggio's Frescoes in Parma Cathedral
by: Smyth, Carolyn

Hardcover. New York , Princeton University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages with 4 color plates. 132 black & white photos. 11 line illustrations.

Record # 175571

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Discovering a Pre-Renaissance Master: Tommaso Del Mazzaby: Barbara Deimling; John Nolan; Carl Brandon Strehlke; Yvonne Szafran

Discovering a Pre-Renaissance Master: Tommaso Del Mazza
by: Barbara Deimling; John Nolan; Carl Brandon Strehlke; Yvonne Szafran

Softcover. Greenville NC, Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages; 7 paintings studied 67+ color illustrations including the technical analysis. Clean copy.

Record # 384480

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Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsmanby: Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox

Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman
by: Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press/Electa , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Softcover in excellent, clean condition. Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804, the son of Giambattista, left a corpus of drawings which show him to be one of the talented Venetian artists of the 18th century. 176 drawings plus many photographs of details and of paintings.

Record # 350482

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Donatello by: Goldscheider, Ludwig

Donatello
by: Goldscheider, Ludwig

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oatmeal buckram boards with brown lettering. No dj. 46 pages followed by 149 beautifully reproduced full-page b&w plates, then 3 pages of Index of Museums. Donatello, master of sculpture in both marble and bronze, one of the greatest of all Italian Renaissance artists, the greatest Florentine sculptor before Michelangelo. Clean copy. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 387598

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Drawing in Renaissance and Baroque Siena: 16Th- And 17Th-Century Drawings from Sienese Collectionsby: Ciampolini, Marco

Drawing in Renaissance and Baroque Siena: 16Th- And 17Th-Century Drawings from Sienese Collections
by: Ciampolini, Marco

Hardcover. Univ of Georgia Georgia Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352745

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Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle, Theby: Goldner, George R./Carmen C. Bambach

Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle, The
by: Goldner, George R./Carmen C. Bambach

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, 406 pages. Hardcover published to accompany the exhibition bearing the same title and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 28, 1997 to January 11, 1998. Canvas cloth boards with grey embossed titles to spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751351

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Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection by: Colin B Bailey; Giada Damen; Jennifer Tonkovich; Jane Turner

Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection
by: Colin B Bailey; Giada Damen; Jennifer Tonkovich; Jane Turner

Hardcover. NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 294 pages. Clean, bright copy. A sumptuous collection of master drawings from the Renaissance to the current era, all reproduced in color.

Record # 396294

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Flight of Fancy - The Banishment and Return of Ornamentby: Brolin, Brent C.

Flight of Fancy - The Banishment and Return of Ornament
by: Brolin, Brent C.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light foxing to edges. Otherwise clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750351

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Fra Angelicoby: Ahl, Diane Cole

Fra Angelico
by: Ahl, Diane Cole

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. No dust jacket issued. Examines the life and work of possibly the most celebrated religious painter of the Italian Early Renaissance, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico. From the delicate altarpieces to the serene frescos in the monastery of San Marco in Florence, this book discusses the context of the time and places in which his works were created.

Record # 352113

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Francesco di Giorgio: Checklist and History of Manuscripts and Drawings in Autographs and Copies from ca.1470-1687 and Renewed Copies, (1764-1839by: Scaglia, Gustina

Francesco di Giorgio: Checklist and History of Manuscripts and Drawings in Autographs and Copies from ca.1470-1687 and Renewed Copies, (1764-1839
by: Scaglia, Gustina<

Hardcover. Bethlehem, Lehigh Univ. Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Black & white illustrations, 298 pages. This work presents Di Giorgio's codex of machine and fort drawings for the Duke of Urbino, his sketchbook of machines, and archeological sketches in the Uffizi.

Record # 63210

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Francesco II Gonzaga: The soldier-prince as patronby: Bourne, Molly

Francesco II Gonzaga: The soldier-prince as patron
by: Bourne, Molly

Softcover. Rome, Bulzoni Editore, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 700 pages, Color plates in rear section. Very good condition. Card wraps. Appendices appear to have original text from letters in Italian. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 379511

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Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Sienaby: Marciari, John J.

Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena
by: Marciari, John J.

hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 194 color plates and 13 black and white illustrations. Tight copy.

Record # 471220

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Gianlorenzo Bernini (Masters of Art Series) (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Charles Scribner III

Gianlorenzo Bernini (Masters of Art Series) (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Charles Scribner III

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small crumbled tear to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397754

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Giorgioneby: Anderson, Jaynie

Giorgione
by: Anderson, Jaynie

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on end paper. Color pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and light tanning to dust jacket.

Record # 468782

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Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua by: Cole, Bruce

Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
by: Cole, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with b/w and color images throughout. 119 pages. Oblong format. The Scrovegno Chapel is reknown for a fresco cycle by Giotto, completed around 1305 and an important masterpiece of Western art. In 2021, the chapel was declared part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of 14th-century fresco cycles composed of 8 historical buildings in Padua city centre. The Scrovegni Chapel contains the most important frescoes that marked the beginning of a revolution in mural painting and influenced fresco technique, style, and content for a whole century. Short inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean copy.

Record # 397921

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Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550by: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550
by: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 499 pages, profusely illustrated throughout with 562 plates, including 148 in full color. Previous owner's blind stamp on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460357

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Infinite Jest: Wit & Humor in Italian Renaissance Artby:  Barolsky, Paul

Infinite Jest: Wit & Humor in Italian Renaissance Art
by: Barolsky, Paul

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press,, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w plates. Dust jacket price-clipped, clean copy.

Record # 370763

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Inventing the Renaissance Puttoby: Dempsey, Charles

Inventing the Renaissance Putto
by: Dempsey, Charles

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 277 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) appears frequently in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. The "spiritelli" embody a minor species of demon, neither good nor bad. This book discusses the manifestations of the putto-spiritello in 15th-century art and literature. It offers parallel interpretations of two works: Botticelli's "Mars and Venus", a painting in which infant Satyr-putti appear as the panic-inducing spirits of the nightmare, and Politian's "Stanze", a poem in which masked cupids appear to the hero in a deceiving dream. The text concludes with an examination of the functions of such masks in the poetry and public masquerades sponsored by Lorenzo de'Medici and in Michelangelo's scheme for the decoration of the Medici Chapel. Clean copy.

Record # 382186

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Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture - 3 Volumes - Plate Volume, Text Volume, Catalogue Volumeby: Pope-Hennessy, John

Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture - 3 Volumes - Plate Volume, Text Volume, Catalogue Volume
by: Pope-Hennessy, John

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Part III of Pope-Hennessy's Introduction to Italian Sculpture. 3 Volumes - Plate Volume - non-paginated. Illustrated with black & white plates. Bump at top of spine. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Text Volume - 126 pages. Black & white illustrations. Bottom right corner bumped. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Catalogue Volume - 183 pages. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611544

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Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School (2 Vols.)by: Berenson, Bernard

Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School (2 Vols.)
by: Berenson, Bernard

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages of text, 1478 b&w plates, 39 index pages. Two volume set, textured cloth covers, clean dustjackets, set shows little wear. Cardboard slipcase with paper chipping to edges.

Record # 405683

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Italian Renaissance Ceramicsby: Watson, Wendy M.

Italian Renaissance Ceramics
by: Watson, Wendy M.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout with 112 color plates and 55 b&w reproductions. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A beautiful publication examining Italian Maiolica. An essential reference work for historians, collectors, and anyone with an interest in ceramics.

Record # 460355

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Jacopo della Quercia - Sculptorby: Seymour, Jr., Charles

Jacopo della Quercia - Sculptor
by: Seymour, Jr., Charles

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages of text followed by large section of black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges, fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611899

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Leon Battista Alberti: on Painting: A New Translation and Critical Editionby: Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti: on Painting: A New Translation and Critical Edition
by: Leon Battista Alberti

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages, b&w illustrations. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Alberti's On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume, Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.

Record # 386912

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Leonardo Da Vinci: Engineer and Architectby: Theberge, Pierre

Leonardo Da Vinci: Engineer and Architect
by: Theberge, Pierre

Hardcover. Monteal, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages plus 8 pages in rear. Large, hardcover exhibition catalog profusely illustrated with DaVinci's drawings. Some color fade to the dust jacket spine otherwise very good.

Record # 406638

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Leonardo: The Last Supperby: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Leonardo: The Last Supper
by: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. Full color and black & white illustrations. Beautiful copy with light sunning to dust jacket spine, Clean, tight copy. The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers and Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a complete restoration. Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was chosen to head this twenty-year project, and Leonardo, The Last Supper is the official record of her remarkable effort. It first documents the cleaning and removal of the overpainting performed in the other attempts at restoration and then turns to Barcilon's meticulous additions in watercolor, which were based on Leonardo's preparatory drawings, early copies of the painting, and contemporary textual descriptions. This book presents full-scale reproductions of details from the fresco that clearly display and distinguish Leonardo's hand from that of the restorer. With nearly 400 sumptuous color reproductions, the most comprehensive technical documentation of the project by Barcilon, and an introductory essay by art historian and project codirector Pietro C. Marani that focuses on the history of the fresco,

Record # 458394

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Lost Battles Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissanceby: Jones, Jonathan

Lost Battles Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
by: Jones, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 354 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. From one of Britain's most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian--the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo. Clean copy.

Record # 397856

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Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissanceby: Jones, Jonathan

Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
by: Jones, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st us, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small red dot remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352647

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Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of Modern Art by: Hauser, Arnold

Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of Modern Art
by: Hauser, Arnold

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 426 pages plus 322 b&w plates in rear of book. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Record # 386653

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Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carraraby: Eric Scigliano

Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara
by: Eric Scigliano

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. And no place on earth provides a stone so capable of simulating the warmth and vitality of human flesh and incarnating the genius of a Michelangelo as the statuario of Carrara, the storied marble mecca at Tuscany's northwest corner. It was there, where shadowy Etruscans and Roman slaves once toiled, that Michelangelo risked his life in dozens of harrowing expeditions to secure the precious stone for his Pieta, Moses, and other masterpieces. Many books have recounted Michelangelo's achievements in Florence and Rome. Michelangelo's Mountain goes beyond all of them, revealing his escapades and ordeals in the spectacular landscape that was the third pole of his tumultuous career and the third wellspring of his art. Eric Scigliano brings this haunting place and eternally fascinating artist to life in a sweeping tale peopled by popes and poets, mad dukes and mythic monsters, scheming courtiers and rough-hewn quarrymen. In showing how the artist, land, and stone transformed one another, Scigliano brings fresh insight to Michelangelo's most cherished works and illuminates his struggles with the princes and potentates of Carrara, Rome, and Medici Florence, who raised intrigue to a high art.

Record # 378321

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Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings Etchings & Woodcuts by: Dackerman, Susan with an essay by Thomas Primeau

Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings Etchings & Woodcuts
by: Dackerman, Susan with an essay by Thomas Primeau

Hardcover. Baltimore Museum of Art/Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 297 pages. 119 color illustrations and 10 b&w. With an essay by Thomas Primeau. Catalogue entries by Deborah Carton, Susan Dackerman, Richard S. Field, Katherine Crawford Luber, Elizabeth Mansfield, Walter S. Melion, Thomas Primeau and Robert Wheaton. An old master print with color is almost invariably regarded as a suspect object because the color is presumed to be a cosmetic addition made to compensate for deficiencies of design or condition. Painted Prints challenges this deeply entrenched assumption about the material and aesthetic structure of old master prints by showing that in many cases hand coloring is not a dubious supplement to a print but is instead an integral element augmenting its expressive power, beauty, and meaning. Clean, bright copy. NOTE: Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 384487

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Palazzo Te: Giulio Romano's Masterwork in Mantuaby: Ugo Bazzotti

Palazzo Te: Giulio Romano's Masterwork in Mantua
by: Ugo Bazzotti

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 255 color plates. Built for Federico II Gonzaga Duke of Mantua between 1525 and 1536, Palazzo Te is the masterpiece of Renaissance artist, designer, and architect Giulio Romano, the most accomplished and favored of Raphael's pupils.The palace's interiors are replete with frescoes depicting imaginative scenes and trompe l'oeil fantasies of gods and heroes, fictive marble statues, and portraits of the Duke's favorite thoroughbreds. From the erotic scenes of the Sala di Psiche to the famous Sala di Giganti, based on the mythological defeat of the Titans by the gods of Olympus, the High Renaissance ideal of classical harmony and balance is overtaken by breathtaking illusionist techniques and images of giants, falling masonry, and the thunderbolts from the gods.

Record # 374976

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Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawingsby: Logan, Anne-Marie

Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings
by: Logan, Anne-Marie

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 332 pages with 145 color plates, 151 b&w illustrations. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351707

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Piero della Francesca (Italian Edition)by: Paolucci, Antonio

Piero della Francesca (Italian Edition)
by: Paolucci, Antonio

Hardcover. Florence, Italy, Cantini, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in SLIPCASE cover. ITALIAN TEXT. Color pictures. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Slipcase has some tape repair on bottom edge. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 468783

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Piero della Francescaby: Bertelli, Senior Carlo

Piero della Francesca
by: Bertelli, Senior Carlo

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in full color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458389

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Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissanceby: Becherer, Joseph Antenucci/Others

Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance
by: Becherer, Joseph Antenucci/Others

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Rizzoli for the Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 317 pages. illustrated throughout in color, some b/w., major scholarly exhibition catalogue on Perugino, known as Raphael's teacher. Contains 7 essays by 8 contributors and much reference material. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: Due to weight, domestic shipping only.

Record # 384482

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Raphael: The Stanza Della Segnatura, Romeby: Beck, James

Raphael: The Stanza Della Segnatura, Rome
by: Beck, James

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 95 pages. Oblong format. 33 color plates of the artist's fresco in the Vatican. Other b&w illustrations. Recognizing the precocious talent of Raphael, then age twenty-six, Pope Julius II commissioned the artist in 1509 to paint four monumental murals and numerous smaller scenes that gave visual form to the enlightened world of the Renaissance. Guided by the leading scholars of his day, Raphael chose themes that glorified the four branches of learning required for a general education, particularly that of a pope: Theology, Poetry, Jurisprudence, and Philosophy. The painting of the latter, perhaps best known today as "The School of Athens," shows Plato and Aristotle striding through a vast, open hallway and flanked by scientists and philosophers of the ancient world; rediscovered in the Renaissance, they hold a convention where they discuss issues that will inspire a new age. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397874

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Raphaelby: Bette Talvacchia

Raphael
by: Bette Talvacchia

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. This monograph explores the life and work of one of the most important artists in the history of the West, Raphael (1483-1520). Its scope covers Raphael's origins, his early influences, his important Urbino period and subsequently the extraordinary series of frescoes and portraits of his last phase in Rome. No dust jacket.

Record # 361281

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Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawingsby: Janet Byrne

Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings
by: Janet Byrne

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 143 pages. 186 b&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dec. 1981-Feb. 1982.

Record # 379210

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Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titianby: Rona Goffen

Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian
by: Rona Goffen

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2nd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 519 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This enthralling book views the lives and greatest works of the Renaissance masters through the prism of their ardent rivalry. Rona Goffen, one of the most highly respected scholars of the Italian Renaissance today, brings Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian to life in this lively account of their passionate strivings to outdo both living competitors and the masters of antiquity.?Who would have thought that the serene masterpieces of the High Renaissance owed so much of their vitality to backstage brawling? Only Rona Goffen knows enough to trace these labyrinthine rivalries. In her book the artists take on cinematic vitality, making us see the artifacts produced by such creative brawlers in entirely new ways. Clean, bright copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386021

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Studies in Italian Renaissance Architectureby: Lotz, Wolfgang

Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture
by: Lotz, Wolfgang

Hardcover. Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout.Light foxing to edges, pen markings on a couple pages. Dust jacket with shelf wear, small tears to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 750350

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Taking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Cultureby: Talvacchia, Bette

Taking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Culture
by: Talvacchia, Bette

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red endpapers. Decorated cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. An innovative exploration of the place of the erotic in Renaissance art and culture, focusing on a notorious set of images created by the young Italian master Giulio Romano. Clean copy.

Record # 99041

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The Artist Grows Old: The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800by: Philip Sohm

The Artist Grows Old: The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800
by: Philip Sohm

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. How does the artist's self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of aging. Sohm investigates how art critics, collectors, biographers, and fellow artists dealt with old painters, what mental landscapes preconditioned responses to art by the elderly, and how biology and psychology were co-opted to explain the imprint that artists left on their art. He also looks carefully at the impact of prejudices, stereotypes, and other imaginary truths about old age. For some artists, the problems of old age were related to physical decline-Poussin's hands became shaky, Titian's eyesight dimmed. For others, psychological symptoms emerged. The book's cast of characters includes Michelangelo, the hypochondriac young fogy; Titian, the shrewd marketer of old age; the multiphobic Pontormo; and others. With sensitivity and insight, Sohm uncovers what it meant to be an old artist and how successive generations have looked at the art of an old master.

Record # 362447

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The Brancacci Chapel, Florenceby: Andrew Ladis

The Brancacci Chapel, Florence
by: Andrew Ladis

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages, oblong format. This chapel in Italy's great city of art is home to a marvelous cycle of frescoes, composed by three 15th-century masters: Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi. Under the supervision of Masaccio, they moved far beyond Giotto in creating figures more human, in spaces more realistic than ever, providing inspiration for succeeding artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo. More than 32 color plates. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397875

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The Heritage of Apelles: Studies in the art of the Renaissance by: Gombrich, E.H.

The Heritage of Apelles: Studies in the art of the Renaissance
by: Gombrich, E.H.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers, 250 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Gilt title on spine. Chapters include: The heritage of Apelles; Light, form, and texture in fifteenth-century painting north and south of the Alps; The form of movement in water and air; The grotesque heads; The earliest description of the Triptych; 'As it was in the days of Noe'; From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi; The leaven of criticism in Renaissance art: texts and episodes; The pride of Apelles: Vives, Durer and Bruegel. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Record # 383386

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The Last Judgement: Volume 1: The Restoration, Volume 2: Color Plates (2 Volumes in a slipcase)by: The Vatican Museum

The Last Judgement: Volume 1: The Restoration, Volume 2: Color Plates (2 Volumes in a slipcase)
by: The Vatican Museum

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boxed set. Each volume is bound in burgundy linen with foil embossing on the cover and the two are housed in a matching slipcase with four-color paintings on both sides. Endpapers, production, and printing are of the highest quality.

Record # 363408

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The Portrait in the Renaissance by: Pope-Hennessy, John

The Portrait in the Renaissance
by: Pope-Hennessy, John

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 12th volume of the A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts. The Bollingen Series XXXV. Profusely illustrated with b/w plates. Arntzen calls this book `a good critical treatment of the development of the Renaissance portrait.' Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 396783

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The Renaissance Print 1470-1550by: David Landau and Peter Parshall

The Renaissance Print 1470-1550
by: David Landau and Peter Parshall

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout in black & white and color. 433 pages. This book examines the technical and aesthetic experimentation that went into printmaking, workshop practices, and the material and social contexts of print production, and it gives the fullest account ever written of the ways in which Renaissance prints were produced, distributed, and acquired. David Landau and Peter W. Parshall pose a range of practical questions about the production of prints. They investigate, for example, what materials were used, how they were acquired, and how a Renaissance printmaker's workshop operated. They explore the evidence that individual prints were beginning to be esteemed as works of art rather than as inexpensive substitutes for them, and the relationship between prints made to be collected and those of a more ephemeral nature intended for a wider audience. They discuss how prints were valued during the period, including the relative value of woodcuts to engravings, and engravings to etchings. And they investigate how prints evolved in relation to the pictorial arts of the Renaissance generally. Clean, bright copy. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 383261

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The Stanze of Raphael by: Deoclecio Redig de Campos

The Stanze of Raphael
by: Deoclecio Redig de Campos

Softcover. Rome, Del Turco Editore Roma, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages illustrated with 4 color plates and 61 b/w illustrations. Full account of the paintings in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Stanza of Heliodorus, the Stanza of the Incendio and the Hall of Constantine; uncredited English translation. No date, clean copy.

Record # 396769

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