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Renaissance

Medieval and Renaissance Art: People and Possessions
by Glyn Davies and Kristin Kennedy
This important and beautiful book accompanies the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum's spectacular new Medieval and Renaissance galleries. Among the textiles, paintings, sculpture, glass, metalwork, prints, manuscripts, furniture, ceramics and jewelry featured here are such renowned treasures as the Devonshire tapestries, the Leonardo Notebooks, Donatellos Ascension relief, the reliquary casket of St. Thomas Becket, and many more ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$80.00, Our Price US$64.00

Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Lo Stile di Eleonora di Toledo e la sua influenza
by Roberta Orsi Landini and Bruna Niccoli
Italian and English texts, including: Eleonora di Toledo: Duchess of Tuscany in history and legend; Eleonora's style; Costume in the Medici ceremonies; The clothes that have survived; The individual garments; Tailors and embroiderers; Florentine textile production; The wardrobe of Eleonora di Toledo. 252p, 120 plates, mostly in color (Edizioni Polistampa 2005, reprinting 2007)
Hardback. Price US$120.00

Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection
by Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson
A superb catalogue of the British Museum collection of maiolica and other Italian Renaissance pottery, published in two volumes with a slipcase, ribbon and cloth binding.

The British Museum collection of Italian Renaissance ceramics is one of the most important and most comprehensive anywhere in the world. Apart from containing many works of great artistic beauty, it is unequalled for its high proportion of signed, marked, dated and ...
Hardback. Price US$300.00

Tirso de Molina: Jealous of Herself
translated with an introduction by Harley Erdman
Tirso de Molina's Jealous of Herself (c. 1622-23) is an ingenious comedy of disguise and deception set in the streets, plazas, and fashionable apartments of early 17th- century Madrid. Nearly forgotten for almost 400 years, the play is starting to gain attention today for its very modern perspective on male desire and the difficult situation placed on women who must live up to an ideal fantasy projected onto them. Much like another product ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$29.95
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Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Cosimo I de Medici's Style
by Roberta Orsi-Landini
Roberta Orsi Landini uses material from the Florentine state archives to reconstruct Cosimo I de Medici's wardrobe, continuing her earlier work on Eleonora di Toledo. Cosimo consciously constructed his public and official image, and Orsi Landini follows his stylistic evolution over his thirty-year reign, including colors, materials and decorations. The author also examines manufacturing, especially silk producers, while a final chapter is ...
Hardback. Price US$129.00

Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters
by Felix Pryor
Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603) ruled England for 45 turbulent years and her reign has come to be seen as a golden age. She exercised supreme authority in a man's world, while remaining intensely feminine. This volume has been published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of her death in 1603. It illustrates in colour and (where possible) actual size, a selection of 60 manuscripts - either by Elizabeth or to her - from the British Library, Public ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$34.95, Our Price US$12.98

Artists' Art in the Renaissance
by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin has taught the history of art at Washington University, the University of Maryland, Yale, Princeton, and Università di Roma, La Sapienza. Specializing in Italian 13th16th century painting, she is internationally known for her books and articles on Piero della Francesca. Her other books include The Place of Narrative: Mural Painting in Italian Churches, 4311600 AD., and Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents ...
Hardback. Price US$220.00

Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting: A Study in Material Culture
by Rembrandt Duits
Silk fabrics woven with gold thread, predominantly produced in Italy, were depicted frequently in Renaissance painting, both in costumes and as backdrops for important figures. These painted textiles carried an economic and social significance that a contemporary audience would have recognised as part of the message conveyed by the picture. Gold brocade and Renaissance painting focuses on examples from Italy and the southern Netherlands , ...
Hardback. Price US$300.00

Renaissance Keywords
edited by Ita Mac Carthy
Certain words played a crucial role in the making of the European Renaissance, and still recur today in our shifting understanding of it. Discretion and grace, to take two examples studied here, express how individuals thought about themselves, each other and their experience of the world, yet they are as hard to define as they are ever-present in Renaissance discourse. In this collection of essays, scholars from across the Humanities offer new ...
Hardback. Price US$89.50

Boccaccio geografo: Un viaggio nel Mediterraneo tra le città, i giardini eà il 'mondo' di Giovanni Boccaccio
edited by Roberta Morosini
English summary: This collection of articles explores the work of the Renaissance geographer De Boccaccio, with texts, indices, maps and reproductions of portulans, all of which communicate his rich curiosity for the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean. De Boccacio's writings combine physical and human geography, literature and culture to bring readers to the heart of a Mediterranean almost more imagined than experienced. Scholarly ...
Paperback. Price US$40.00