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Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521139540)
- Publication date: November 2009
- Subject: Western art
This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942.
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- $37.99 (Z)
Michelangelo
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9781107673694)
- Publication date: July 2011
- Subject: Western art
Written from the words of Michelangelo and his contemporaries, this biography not only tells his own stories but also brings to life the culture and society of Renaissance Florence and Rome. Michelangelo's belief in his patrician status fueled his lifelong ambition to improve his family's financial situation and to raise the social standing of artists. Michelangelo's ambitions are evident in his writing, dress, and comportment, as well as in his ability to befriend, influence, and occasionally say "no" to popes, kings, and princes.
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Michelangelo
- Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521111997)
- Publication date: October 2009
- Subject: Western art
Written from the words of Michelangelo and his contemporaries, this biography not only tells his own stories but also brings to life the culture and society of Renaissance Florence and Rome. Michelangelo's belief in his patrician status fueled his lifelong ambition to improve his family's financial situation and to raise the social standing of artists. Michelangelo's ambitions are evident in his writing, dress, and comportment, as well as in his ability to befriend, influence, and occasionally say "no" to popes, kings, and princes.
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- $34.99 (Z)
Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing
- Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521761406)
- Publication date: October 2010
- Subject: European literature
Michelangelo's extant correspondence is the most abundant of any artist. Spanning 67 years, it comprises roughly 1,400 letters, of which 500 were written by Michelangelo himself. This is the first book to study the letters for their intrinsically literary qualities. In this volume, Deborah Parker examines Michelangelo's use of language as a means of understanding the creative process of this extraordinary artist. Close study of his mastery of words and modes of self-presentation shows Michelangelo to be a consummate artist who deploys the resources of language to considerable effect.
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- $83.00 (C)
The Afterlife of Raphael's Paintings
- Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521196949)
- Publication date: October 2010
- Subject: Western art
Raphael is one of the rare artists who have never gone out of fashion. Acclaimed during his lifetime, he was imitated by contemporaries and served as a model for painters through the nineteenth century. In this book, Cathleen Hoeniger focuses on the legacy of Raphael's art: the historical trajectory – or "afterlife" – of the paintings themselves. Some were lost altogether; others were severely damaged in natural disasters; and many were affected by uncontrolled climactic conditions, by travel from one place to another, and by the not always cautious and careful hands of restorers. This book reveals the five-hundred-year story of many of Raphael's most well-known paintings.
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- $95.00 (C)
The Cambridge Companion to Raphael
- Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521808095)
- Publication date: March 2005
- Subject: Western art
This book examines the painter Raphael in terms of his patrons and contemporaries, and his enduring reputation over time. Along with Michelangelo, Raphael defined the artistic style that characterized the High Renaissance in Italy. The rules of academic painting were deduced from his works, and thus Raphael became the most copied painter in history.
- Replaced by 9780521003964
- $99.99 (Z)
The Cambridge Companion to Velázquez
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521669405)
- Publication date: May 2002
- Subject: Western art
The Cambridge Companion to Velázquez offers a synthetic overview of one of the greatest painters of Golden Age Spain and seventeenth century Europe as a whole. With contributions from art historians and those working in other disciplines, this book offers fresh approaches to the vast literature on this artist. The essays also guide the reader to an understanding of Velázquez's work --his training in his native Seville, reflections in his oeuvre of artistic currents from outside Spain, and how Velázquez's religious paintings may be understood within the religious context of Counter-Reformation Spain.
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- $41.00 (Z)