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“niall atkinson”

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  • The Noisy Renaissance

    Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

    by Niall Atkinson ...
    From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.Analyzing a range of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • The Notebooks - The Original Classic Edition

    by Leonardo Da ...
    The award-winning and bestselling collection of the exquisite, annotated notebooks of Leonardo now in paperback. Culled from more than 7,000 pages of sketches and writings found in various rare books, papers, and other resources throughout the world, Leonardos Notebooks presents, for the first time, an exhaustive collection of the insights and brilliance of perhaps the finest mind the world has ... Read more

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  • The Medici

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Series series Italian Histories
    A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Renaissance Architecture

    by Christy Anderson ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change. Encompassing the entire continent, Renaissance Architecture examines the rich variety of buildings that emerged during these seminal centuries of European history. Although marked by the rise of powerful individuals, both patrons and architects, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas

    Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy

    by Natsumi Nonaka ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden—the pergola—became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 101 Places in Italy: A Private Grand Tour

    1001 Unforgettable Works of Art

    by Francis Russell ...
    A new and massively enlarged and revised version of a much praised book first published by Umberto Allemandi in 2008 (then titled ’52 Places in Italy’)A distinguished and well-connected author with powerful and influential media and art-world friends—he is deputy chairman of Christies.A selective and authoritative guide to the art and architecture of the world’s most visited ‘foreign country’.A ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari

    Edited by David J. Cast ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still controversial-artist and writer. The contributors examine the life and work of Vasari as an artist, architect, courtier, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Federico Barocci

    Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

    Edited by Judith W. Mann ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612), 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation, Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman, and the first Italian artist to incorporate extensive color into his drawings. The purpose of this volume is to offer new insights into Barocci’s ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Raphael’s Ostrich

    by Una Roman D’Elia ...
    Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    by Carolyn Springer ...
    During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Baroque Visual Rhetoric

    by Vernon Hyde Minor ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, ... Read more

    $76.39 USD

  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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