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History of Art

Italian Renaissance Painting According to Genres

Burckhardt Jacob, Britt David, Beamish Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780892367368, Getty Publications, March 2006
252 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 31 illus.

The Swiss scholar Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was one of the first great historians of culture and art. In his manuscript on the genres of Italian Renaissance painting – still unpublished in the original German and published here in English for the...

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Architecture

Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette

Piranesi Giovanni Battista, Wilton-Ely John, Beamish Caroline, Britt David

ISBN: PB: 9780892366361, Getty Publications, March 2006
168 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 43 black&white illus.

Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Osservazioni" is an impassioned defence of the superiority of Roman architectural "invention" over the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of Ancient Greece. In this three-part polemical work, the engrave...

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History of Art

Chardin

Rosenberg Pierre, Beamish Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300083484, Yale University Press, March 2000
360 pp., 31.9x24.3 cm, 35 black&white illus., 127 colour illus.

Widely acknowledged in his time as a premier painter of still-life and genre scenes, Jean-Baptiste-Simion Chardin (1699-1779) created unsentimentalised works that appeal to viewers today for their richness of feeling and simplicity of composition. Th...

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