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Painted Glories The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence
ISBN: HB: 9780300187663, Yale University Press, November 2014
288 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 50 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Florence unexpectedly defeated Milanese forces near the town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. Nicholas Eckstein reveals the impact of this celebrated victory on Florentine public life and how it could ha...
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Paintings by Peder Balke
ISBN: HB: 9781857095821, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2014
128 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 93 colour illus.
In 1832, the Norwegian painter Peder Balke (1804-1887) traveled to the far north of Norway to the dramatic coastline of the North Cape. The experience was so profound that he built his career painting isolated Arctic Circle seascapes. His pictures we...
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Raising Henry A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
ISBN: PB: 9780300198911, Yale University Press, November 2014
272 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>Rachel Adams' life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her...
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Aaron Siskind
ISBN: HB: 9780300210903, Yale University Press, November 2014
200 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 160 tritone illus.
Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), teacher, journalist and photographer, was an artist of great originality, unprecedented in American photography. This has tended to result in his work being misinterpreted, balanced as it is between the influences of Walker...
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£40,00
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Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300208450, Yale University Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.
How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread...
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£65,00
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Journey of the Universe
ISBN: PB: 9780300209433, ISBN: HB: 9780300171907, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 25x15 cm
Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars...
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Passions
ISBN: HB: 9780300186338, Yale University Press, November 2014
232 pp., 21x14 cm
The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi's writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary – a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, li...
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£44,00
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Make a Joyful Noise Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral
ISBN: HB: 9780300209181, Yale University Press, November 2014
104 pp., 30.5x18.7 cm, 80 colour illus.
Florence Cathedral, familiarly called Il Duomo, is an architectural masterpiece and home to celebrated works of art. The interrelationship between the brilliant art and architecture and the Cathedral's musical programme is explored in depth in this b...
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£35,00
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Kem Weber, Designer and Architect
ISBN: HB: 9780300206272, Yale University Press, November 2014
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 96 colour images, 205 black&white illus.
For German-born Kem Weber (1889-1963), design was not about finding a new expression; it was about responding to "structural, economic, and social requirements...characteristic of our daily routine of living". He sought to ensure that each design he...
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Art of the American West The Haub Family Collection at Tacoma Art Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780300207606, Yale University Press, November 2014
312 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.
This handsome book displays an extraordinary breadth of masterworks dating from the 1790s to the present, including over 140 artists in some 350 beautiful colour reproductions. In a variety of media and styles, iconic American artists including Frede...
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