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1	The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican more books like this by Benjamin Blech, Rabbi, Roy Doliner add to wishlist Two top scholars reveal the secret messages of protest that Michelangelo had hidden in his Sistine Chapel masterpiece, encouraging travelers to challenge the repressive Roman Catholic Church of the time. 16-page color photo insert. see all copies from £6.07! new only from £6.24! \| first editions
2	Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style more books like this by Professor Michael Baxandall add to wishlist An introduction to Italian painting in the 15th century, and the social history behind it. The book covers the structure of the picture trade and its economic basis through contracts, letters and accounts. The author also illustrates how art history can be used to give insights into social history, by showing how the visual skills and activities ... see all copies from £2.41! new only from £6.35! \| first editions
3	Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling more books like this by Ross King add to wishlist An acclaimed British novelist turns to real life in the Renaissance in this account of Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In realistic detail, King explains how Michelangelo executed his monumental work, exploring not only the difficult process itself but also the cast of characters surrounding the feat, from the pope ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's more books like this by R A Scotti add to wishlist In 1506, the ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe--the millennium-old St. Peters Basilica. Construction of the new St. Peters spanned two centuries, embroiled 27 popes, and consumed the genius of the greatest artists of the age. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
5	History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture more books like this by Frederick N Hartt add to wishlist Long hailed as one of the most comprehensive and richly detailed chronologies of painting, sculpture and architecture in Renaissance Italy from, this book focuses on works of art, their creators and the circumstances affecting their creation. The book is organized, chronologically, with individual chapters dedicated to developments in different ... see all copies from £8.93! new only from £43.31! \| first editions
6	Northern Renaissance Art more books like this by James Snyder add to wishlist For courses in Northern Renaissance Art, and Introduction to Dutch/German Art. The only comprehensive survey available for the study of Northern Renaissance Art, this text presents stylistic and iconographical themes, art historical scholarship, and valuable analyses for todays students. The coverage and rich color capture the author's lasting ... see all copies from £7.17! new only from £59.79! \| first editions
7	Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 more books like this by Anthony Blunt add to wishlist This study of 16th- and 17th-century French art and architecture, presents major artists and their works chronologically. The author provides an overview of the main projects of the period and of the artistic personalities behind them, and sets the historical context. see all copies from £1.95! new only from £22.47! \| first editions
8	Leonardo's Notebooks more books like this by Leonardo da Vinci, H Anna Suh (Editor) add to wishlist A compilation of da Vinci's most fascinating studies, this monumental volume demystifies his insights and clearly illustrates his ideas, experiments, and observations with hundreds of his original sketches, line drawings, and paintings. see all copies from £8.34! new only from £15.94! \| first editions
9	Italian Renaissance Art more books like this by Laurie Schneider Adams add to wishlist Art historian Laurie Schneider Adams brings to students a vibrant and engaging presentation of Renaissance art history that is supported by up-to-date scholarship and methodology. The text opens with the late Byzantine work of Cimabue and concludes with the transition to Mannerism. The authors focus is on the most important and innovative ... see all copies from £8.73! new only from £31.09! \| first editions
10	Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese more books like this by Frederick Ilchman (Editor), Professor David Rosand (Text by), Linda Borean (Text by) add to wishlist Edited by Frederick Ilchman. Text by David Rosand, Linda Borean, Patricia F. Brown, John Garton, et al. see all copies from £32.14! new only from £32.14!
11 view cover	The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods more books like this by Malcolm Bull add to wishlist Delightfully presented, this volume is a beautifully illustrated account of how the great Renaissance artists revived the myths of Greece and Rome and changed the course of Western art. 200 halftones. 16-page color insert. see all copies from £8.85! new only from £16.17! \| first editions
12 view cover	Leonardo more books like this by Mr. Martin Kemp add to wishlist This fascinating exploration of Leonardo's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of one of the world's most celebrated artistic geniuses who, five hundred years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offers us exceptional insights into the mind of this exemplary Renaissance man, and into the ... see all copies from £1.84! new only from £1.84! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World more books like this by Paul Robert Walker add to wishlist The building of the famous dome of the cathedral in Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore, inaugurated the equally famous feud between its designer--Filippo Brunelleschi--and his arch rival, the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. From this clash of temperaments, the author tells us, a new way of looking at art and the world was born--and hence the Renaissance. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Renaissance at War more books like this by Thomas Arnold add to wishlist Towards the end of the 15th century modern artillery and portable firearms became the signature weapons of the European West. Military leaders were for the first time able to equip their men with powerful weapons of destruction that changed the whole nature of warfare. It was a time of great change in society too; and the architecture of whole ... see all copies from £5.56! new only from £5.92! \| first editions
15 view cover	Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art more books like this by Richard A Turner add to wishlist For courses in Renaissance Art. This text offers an incisive and original account of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Florentine art in its social, cultural, political, geographic, economic and religious settings. Ranging in scope from monumental and public artworks to the intimacy of the domestic interior, it explores artistic patronage and the ... see all copies from £12.31! new only from £37.23!
16	Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance & Baroque Art more books like this by Rene Huyghe (Editor), Renbe Huyghe add to wishlist see all copies from £4.15! first editions
17 view cover	Art and Life in Renaissance Venice more books like this by Dr. Patricia Fortini Brown add to wishlist For courses in Renaissance Art. Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth and fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the ... see all copies from £9.38! new only from £12.15!
18 view cover	The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe more books like this by Samuel Y Edgerton add to wishlist see all copies from £12.46! new only from £12.46!
19 view cover	Art in Renaissance Italy more books like this by John T Paoletti, Gary M Radke add to wishlist For upper-level undergraduate courses in Italian Renaissance Art. "Art mattered in the Renaissance...People expected painting, sculpture, architecture, and other forms of visual art to have a meaningful effect on their lives," write the authors of this important new look at Italian Renaissance art. A glance at the pages of Art in Renaissance ... see all copies* from £6.01! new only from £23.86! \| first editions
20 view cover	Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America more books like this by Mary V Campbell, David Levering Lewis (Photographer) add to wishlist In the 1920s, Harlem was "the capital of Black America" and home to an epochal African-American cultural flowering called the Harlem Renaissance. This book presents the work of the most important visual artists of the day, including Meta Warrick Fuller, Aaron Douglas and Palmer Hayden. see all copies from £4.71! new only from £12.15! \| first editions
21 view cover	Renaissance more books like this by Andrew Graham-Dixon add to wishlist The Renaissance was one of the great periods of creative and intellectual achievement. This 'age of genius', from its origins in the thirteenth century to its zenith in sixteenth-century Rome, produced some of the most fascinating and dynamic artists of all time - Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Leonardo da Vinci. In his adventurous ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £26.17! \| first editions
22 view cover	Caravaggio: A Life more books like this by Helen Langdon add to wishlist Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (C. 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. His early works suggest a fascination with his own youth and sexuality and the trancience of love and beauty his later religious art speaks of violence, passion, solitude and death. Ugly, almost brutal-looking, Caravaggio was constantly embroiled in ... see all copies from £15.33! new only from £15.33! \| first editions
23	Early Netherlandish Painting more books like this by Erwin Panofsky add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £39.85! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Panorama of the Renaissance more books like this by Margaret Aston add to wishlist The Panorama of the Renaissance offers all the tools anyone needs to explore this age of reawakening, invention, and achievement. More than 1,000 illustrations, 578 in color--including paintings, sculpture, architecture, drawings and engravings--are combined to present every aspect of culture, science, art, architecture, philosophy, economics, ... see all copies from £7.29! new only from £11.37! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Mirror of the Artist: Art of Northern Renaissance, Perspectives Series more books like this by Craig Harbison add to wishlist For introductory college courses in Renaissance Art. It is also suitable as a supplement for history courses that survey the period. In this series, accomplished authors accurately cover a range of subjects using up-to-date methodologies and impressive visual formats. Additionally, all titles are modestly priced. This is the first book to present ... see all copies from £7.69! new only from £17.96!

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