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Francesco Noletti: The Grand Roman Baroque Still-life [Hardback]

Keith Sciberras (Editor); Gianluca Bocchi (Author); Lisa Xuereb (Author)

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ISBN: 9789993276159
Published by : Midsea Books
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This is the first monograph and proper study on Francesco Noletti (c.1611–54), called il Maltese (and popularly known as Francesco Fieravino). He is one of the most significant yet enigmatic artists in the study of still-life painting of the ... .... Learn More

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

Ramie Targoff (Author)

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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

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 ... .... Learn More

Sagaholm: North European Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual [Paperback]

Joakim Goldhahn (Author)

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ISBN: 9781785702648
Published by : Oxbow Books
This major new study by one of Europe’s leading prehistorians presents and discusses a series of rock art engravings from a Bronze Age barrow in Ljungarum parish, Jönköping Län, situated in the central part of southern Sweden. Sagaholm contains th... .... Learn More

On the Fascination of Objects [Hardback]

John Boardman (Editor); Andrew Parkin (Editor); Sally Waite (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781785700064
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Shefton Collection in Newcastle upon Tyne contains a fine array of Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name from its founder Professor Brian Shefton (1919 – 2012). In spite of the importance of this collection it has not ... .... Learn More

Prehistoric Rock Art in Scandinavia [Paperback]

Courtney Nimura (Author)

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ISBN: 9781785701191
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Swedish Rock Art Research Series
Volume: 4
Scandinavia is home to prolific and varied rock art images among which the ship motif is prominent. Because of this, the rock art of Scandinavia has often been interpreted in terms of social ritual, cosmology, and religion associa... .... Learn More

Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece [Paperback]

Jennifer Sliwka (Author)

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ISBN: 9781857095944
Published by : National Gallery of Art
Visions of Paradise showcases new scholarly research on the monumental Palmieri Altarpiece by Francesco Botticini (1446-1498). The painting, which depicts the Assumption of the Virgin, was made for the funerary chapel of the Florentine citizen Mat... .... Learn More