Art
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Drama and Devotion: Heemskerck's Ecce Homo Altarpiece From Warsaw [Paperback]
Anne T. Woollett (Author)
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ISBN: 9781606061121
Published by : Getty Trust Publishing
This title offers a fascinating look at the efforts of the J. Paul Getty Museum to preserve and expose a stunning 16th century triptych. Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) was one of the most active and inventive Dutch painters of the 16th century... .... Learn More -
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance [Hardback]
Jonathan Jones (Author)
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ISBN: 9780307594754
Published by : Alfred A Knopf
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for t... .... Learn More -
On the Trail of Bosch and Bruegel: Four Paintings United Under Cross-examination [Paperback]
Erma Hermens (Author)
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ISBN: 9781904982784
Published by : Archetype
The four paintings investigated in this book all depict Christ driving the traders from the temple. They are alike yet different with echoes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch, but all were presumed to have been painted in Antwerp i... .... Learn More -
Divine Interiors [Hardback]
Eric M. Moormann (Author)
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ISBN: 9789089642615
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Divine Interiors is an investigation into the decoration of Greek and Roman temples with wall paintings. Mighty marble facades, sculptures and paintings played an important role in relation to these monuments. While the official temples, which ... .... Learn More -
Tiepolo Pink [Paperback]
Roberto Calasso (Author)
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ISBN: 9780375712081
Published by : Alfred A Knopf
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with fre... .... Learn More -
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love [Hardback]
Christine Kondoleon (Other); Rachel Kousser (Other)
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ISBN: 9780878467563
Published by : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Arguably the most compelling of the ancient divinities, Aphrodite also remains the most alluring. Worshiped and celebrated, she has been depicted in ways both ethereal and crude: it was her image that inspired Praxiteles to introduce the female nu... .... Learn More -
Apollo and Vulcan: The Art Markets in Italy, 1400-1700 [Hardback]
Guido Guerzoni (Author)
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ISBN: 9781611860061
Published by : Michigan State University Press
Guido Guerzoni presents the results of fifteen years of research into one of the more hotly debated topics among historians of art and of economics: the history of art markets. Dedicating equal attention to current thought in the fields of economi... .... Learn More -
Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections [Paperback]
Colin Bailey (Author)
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ISBN: 9780912114538
Published by : Frick Collection
When Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was asked whose talents he would most like to possess, he declared: "Rembrandt's." Like Frick, the Dutch art historian Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884–1970) was a great admirer and collector of works by Rembrandt van... .... Learn More -
She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon [Paperback]
Cristina Mazzoni (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521145664
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature, from antiquity to contemporary times. Used, for example, as an icon of Roman imperial power, papal authority, and the distance between ... .... Learn More -
Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity [Paperback]
Lisa C. Nevett (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521789455
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectations about the kinds of architecture and furnishings that are appropriate; about how and where different activities should be carried out; and by and with whom. It is those expectations, and the ... .... Learn More