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History of Art

Prato Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-state

McLean Alick M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300137149, Yale University Press, January 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour images, 102 black&white illus.

This handsome book recounts the historical development of one city republic, Prato in Tuscany, from the eleventh through the fourteenth century. In telling the story of Prato's origins, construction, and demise, Alick McLean considers the planning, a...

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History of Art

Merchants, Princes and Painters Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1300-1550

Monnas Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9780300111170, Yale University Press, December 2008
352 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry, this volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings from Italy, England and the Netherlands over the course of 250...

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History of Art

Food and Feasting in Art

Malaguzzi Silvia

ISBN: PB: 9780892369140, Getty Publications, May 2008
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

Deliciously illustrated with masterpieces of western art, this latest volume in the highly acclaimed "Guide to Imagery" series explores the rituals, customs, and symbolism of food and dining in art. It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign...

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History of Art

Art and Eskimo Power The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock

Morgan Lael

ISBN: PB: 9781602230217, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2008
258 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, black and white photos

At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people fro...

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History of Art

Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

MacLeod Catharine, Marciari Alexander Julia, Harris Tim, O'Connell Sheila, Roach Joseph, Sharpe Kevin, Shifrin Susan, Walkling Andrew, Weil Rachel, Zwicker Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300116564, Yale University Press, February 2008
214 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characterized by the licentious behaviour of the new king. Edited by the authors of the critically acclaimed "...

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History of Art

Fragonard's Allegories of Love

Molotiu Andrei

ISBN: HB: 9780892368976, Getty Publications, February 2008
128 pp., 26.7x21.5 cm, 53 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter whose manner is distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism, as well as a prolific output – he produced more than 550 paintings. One of his most striking pieces, "The Fountain...

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History of Art

Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context

Morrison Elizabeth, Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780892368525, Getty Publications, April 2007
160 pp., 27.9x19.7 cm, 83 black&white illus., 67 colour illus.

A companion to the prize-winning exhibition catalogue "Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe", edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick (2003), this volume contains thirteen selected papers presented at t...

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History of Art

Models and Prototypes

Manchanda Catharina

ISBN: PB: 9780936316192, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, January 2007
64 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 61 colour plates

"Models and Prototypes" is the first exhibition in the Focus series, a collection-based series of publications and exhibitions intended to examine significant works from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum's collection within the context of contempora...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532486, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or e...

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History of Art

Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

McCullagh Suzanne Folds, Druick Douglas, Ruud Brandon

ISBN: HB: 9780300114126, Yale University Press, May 2006
224 pp., 29.5x24.5 cm, 180 colour illus.

Dorothy Braude Edinburg has amassed one of the most important private collections of drawings in the United States. This book celebrates a gift of 240 drawings that she is making to the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of the 166 works selected for thi...

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