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In the Courts of Religious Ladies Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents
ISBN: HB: 9780300214239, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 85 colour illus., 110 black&white illus.
This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually a...
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£45,00
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Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
ISBN: HB (SET): 9780300148169, Yale University Press, December 2015
750 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 420 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from...
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£195,00
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American School Artists and Status in the Late-Colonial and Early National Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300214611, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 77 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Susan Rather examines the status of artists from different geographical, professi...
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£50,00
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Rome 1600 The City and the Visual Arts Under Clement VIII
ISBN: HB: 9780300215298, Yale University Press, December 2015
460 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 80 colour illus., 220 black&white illus.
In 1600 Rome was the center of the artistic world. This fascinating book offers a new look at the art and architecture of the great Baroque city at this time of major innovation-especially in painting, largely owing to the presence of Annibale Carrac...
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£55,00
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On Display Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence
ISBN: HB: 9780300214000, Yale University Press, December 2015
400 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
In the early modern period, rulers demonstrated their power and influence through carefully curated "display"-their presence in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, and their portraits. Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669), queen cons...
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£40,00
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Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings The Peck Shahnama
ISBN: HB: 9780300215748, Yale University Press, December 2015
192 pp., 32.4x22.9 cm, 105 colour illus.
"Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings" presents the first comprehensive examination of a beautifully decorated yet relatively unknown manuscript of the "Shahnama" ("Book of Kings"), created in 1589-90 in the flourishing cultural center of Shiraz....
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£30,00
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25 Women Essays on Their Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226333151, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
192 pp., 22x18.4 cm, 26 colour plates, 1 halftone
Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging". Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer". Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero". There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey – and...
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£24,00
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In the Shadow of Rama Murals of the Ramayana in Mainland Southeast Asia
ISBN: HB: 9786167339306, Prestel Publishing, River Books, November 2015
256 pp., 31.3x24.4 cm
"In the Shadow of Rama" examines the most beautiful paintings of the famous Ramayana murals, from Southeast Asi. This magnificent book is the culmination of 20 years of research and provides a visual feast for all those fascinated by the art of South...
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£40,00
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Glory of Saint George Man, Dragon, and Death
ISBN: HB: 9780300215755, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2015
304 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.
This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. The earliest existing references to this episode in the hagiography of Saint George date from the 11th century, and the mythical conflic...
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£35,00
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Drawing Redefined Roni Horn, Esther Klas, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle and Jorinde Voigt
ISBN: HB: 9780300215915, Yale University Press, November 2015
88 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus.
"Drawing Redefined" offers an original, critical look at the distinctive role drawing plays in the processes of five influential contemporary artists. For Roni Horn, Esther Klas, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle, and Jorinde Voigt drawing is an esse...
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£20,00
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