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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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Contingent Beauty Contemporary Art from Latin America
ISBN: HB: 9780300214819, Yale University Press, December 2015
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 180 colour illus.
Exploring cutting-edge techniques and daring themes, many Latin American artists seamlessly intertwine aesthetic refinement with biting critiques of social and political issues. "Contingent Beauty" assembles major works by more than 20 such artists w...
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Conundrum Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series
ISBN: HB: 9781606064535, Getty Publications, December 2015
64 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
The whimsical imagery of four tapestries in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently on display at the Getty Center is perplexing. Created in France at the Beauvais manufactory between 1690 and 1730, these charming hangings,...
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Wittgenstein Vitrine Modern Opulence in Vienna
ISBN: HB: 9780300214574, Yale University Press, December 2015
88 pp., 28x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
The Wittgenstein Vitrine, a monumental silver and gemstone-encrusted cabinet, is one of the most important and complex works produced by Austria's Wiener Werkstatte. Kevin W. Tucker weaves together a fascinating portrait of the vitrine, examining its...
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£20,00
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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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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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Woven Gold Tapestries of Louis XIV
ISBN: HB: 9781606064610, Getty Publications, December 2015
136 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king'sreputation by visualizing his manifest...
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