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Farnese Cup [Hardback]

Valeria Sampaolo (Author); Luigi Spina (Author)

Regular Price: £35.00

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ISBN: 9788874398515
Published by : 5 Continents Editions
A tour de force of a carver's skill and craftsmanship, the Farnese Cup is the largest cameo hardstone cup to have survived from the ancient world. Thought to be made in Hellenist Egypt sometime between 300 BC and 30 BC, the Cup was not an archaeol... .... Learn More

Powerful Headdresses: Africa and Asia [Hardback]

Anne van Cutsem Anne van Cutsem (Author); Mauro Magliani (Author)

Regular Price: £55.00

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ISBN: 9788874395514
Published by : 5 Continents Editions
This selection of 120 African and Asian headdresses from the Ira Brind collection takes readers into the most hidden corners of two continents throughout the 20th century.

Over the centuries, craftsmen have applied their creativity and te... .... Learn More

Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime [Hardback]

Stanley Plumly (Author)

Regular Price: £19.99

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ISBN: 9780393651508
Published by : W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed th... .... Learn More

A Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna [Hardback]

Ramie Targoff (Author)

Regular Price: £21.99

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ISBN: 9780374140946
Published by : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
'Renaissance Woman' tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend, but she also had close ties to Cha... .... Learn More

Painter of Pedigree: Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury [Hardback]

Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver (Author)

Regular Price: £30.00

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ISBN: 9781910787670
Published by : Unicorn Press
The industrial and agricultural revolutions transformed the face of Britain. Fiery blast furnaces, pit-head steam engines and fuming lime-kilns scarred a landscape cut across by canals, turnpikes and railways. Within enclosed pasture and parkland,... .... Learn More

A Mystical Realm of Love: Pahari Painitings from the Eva & Konrad Seitz Collection [Hardback]

J. P. Losty (Author); Konrad Seitz (Author)

Regular Price: £90.00

Special Price: £45.00

ISBN: 9781912168057
Published by : Ad Ilissum
Eva and Konrad Seitz have put together over many years an outstanding collection of some of the most famous and important of all 18th century Pahari paintings, including miniatures commissioned by the Rajput rulers of the Punjab Hill states (1650-... .... Learn More

North Meets South: Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia [Hardback]

Peter Skoglund (Editor); Johan Ling (Editor); Ulf Bertilsson (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781785708206
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Swedish Rock Art Research Series
Volume: 6

This latest volume in the Swedish Rock Art series bridges the gap between analysis and interpretation of rock art imagery, location and chronology in the northern and southern regions of Scandinavia. Long viewed as belonging to distinctive re... .... Learn More

Young Leonardo: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist, 1472-1499 [Hardback]

Jean-Pierre Isbouts (Author); Christopher Heath Brown (Author)

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ISBN: 9781250129352
Published by : Thomas Dunne Books
The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci's career is that he enjoyed a promising start in Florence and then moved to Milan to become the celebrated court artist of Duke Ludovico Sforza. Young Leonardo presents a very different view. It reveals ho... .... Learn More

Raphael's Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X [Hardback]

Lorraine Karafel (Author)

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ISBN: 9780300181999
Published by : Yale University Press
Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacul... .... Learn More

Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context [Hardback]

Marisa Marthari (Editor); Colin Renfrew (Editor); Michael Boyd (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781785701955
Published by : Oxbow Books
The sculpture of the Early Bronze Age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from ... .... Learn More