Art History
-
Art and Nature in the Middle Ages
Yale University PressCurrent price €27.99Original price €34.99This splendidly illustrated book explores the universal and multifaceted theme of nature as manifested in Western European art of the Middle Ages. ...
View full detailsCurrent price €27.99Original price €34.99Save 20% -
The Transformation of Nature in Art
Ananda K CoomaraswamyCurrent price €15.19Original price €18.99Current price €15.19Original price €18.99Save 20% -
How to Read Medieval Art
Wendy A. SteinCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99An enlightening, accessible guide to understanding and appreciating European art from the Middle AgesHow to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of...
View full detailsCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Save 13% -
The Dance of Death
Hans HolbeinCurrent price €15.63Original price €16.99'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more i...
View full detailsCurrent price €15.63Original price €16.99Save 8% -
The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, C.12501750
Manchester University PressCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of b...
View full detailsCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
Super Focus: 17 jaar pionieren in de virtuele wereld van de gouden eeuw
Rob TuytelCurrent price €15.17Original price €18.50Current price €15.17Original price €18.50Save 18% -
Ambiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature
Roberta MillikenCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has remained an important cultural symbol of f...
View full detailsCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Save 10% -
Giotto
Francesca Flores D'ArcaisCurrent price €29.63Original price €39.50Vasari famously wrote that Giotto recovered the true method of painting, which had been lost for many years before him, and indeed, he is traditi...
View full detailsCurrent price €29.63Original price €39.50Save 25% -
Rpertoire de Peintures Du Moyen ge Et de la Renaissance: 1280-1580. Tome 5
Salomon ReinachCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50Current price €24.23Original price €28.50Save 15% -
English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts
Zuleika MuratCurrent price €63.47Original price €68.99New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late me...
View full detailsCurrent price €63.47Original price €68.99Save 8% -
The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe: Making, Meaning, Preserving
Lucy WrapsonCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages. The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and...
View full detailsCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Save 10% -
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Image, Relic and Material Culture
Beth WilliamsonCurrent price €63.47Original price €68.99Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images. ...
View full detailsCurrent price €63.47Original price €68.99Save 8% -
Power and Piety: Monastic Houses of Medieval Britain and Ireland - Volume 8 - The Warrior Monks
Graham HobsterCurrent price €25.35Original price €32.50Current price €25.35Original price €32.50Save 22% -
Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society
Andrew SmallCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history. Material culture pl...
View full detailsCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99Save 13% -
Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Deborah DeliyannisCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects...
View full detailsCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Save 10% -
Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Deborah DeliyannisCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects...
View full detailsCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99Save 10% -
The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy
Nancy P. SevcenkoCurrent price €146.27Original price €158.99The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some pape...
View full detailsCurrent price €146.27Original price €158.99Save 8% -
The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age
Beatrice E. KitzingerCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99In this book, Beatrice E. Kitzinger explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, demonstrating how images were used to assert th...
View full detailsCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Save 10% -
Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150-1350
Laura SlaterCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English art Images and imagery played a ...
View full detailsCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99Save 10% -
I, Livia: The Counterfeit Criminal (Colored - New Edition)
Mary MuddCurrent price €24.80Original price €28.50Current price €24.80Original price €28.50Save 13% -
Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610: Ritual and Experience
Andrew ChenCurrent price €116.83Original price €126.99This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to...
View full detailsCurrent price €116.83Original price €126.99Save 8% -
An Analysis of Yasser Tabbaa''s The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival
Bilal BadatCurrent price €10.43Original price €11.99Tabbaas Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the oft...
View full detailsCurrent price €10.43Original price €11.99Save 13% -
The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba
Glaire D. AndersonCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99Exploring the aristocratic villas and court culture of Córdoba, during its 'golden age' under the reign of the Umayyad dynasty (r. 756-1031 AD), th...
View full detailsCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99Save 10% -
Power and Protection: Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 4 - Wales
Graham HobsterCurrent price €35.09Original price €44.99Current price €35.09Original price €44.99Save 22% -
Owen Jones: Alhambra Ceiling (Foiled Journal)
Flame Tree PublishingCurrent price €13.11Original price €15.99Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printe...
View full detailsCurrent price €13.11Original price €15.99Save 18% -
Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book: Breydenbachs Peregrinatio from Venice to Jerusalem
Elizabeth RossCurrent price €87.29Original price €96.99Bernhard von Breydenbachs Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land), first published in 1486, is one of the seminal books of early ...
View full detailsCurrent price €87.29Original price €96.99Save 10% -
The Spiritual Meaning of Rosslyn''s Carvings
Jackie QueallyCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
The Many Faces of Christ: Portraying the Holy in the East and West, 300 to 1300
Michele BacciCurrent price €37.13Original price €49.50It is common to think of Jesus of Nazareth''s main physical characteristics as including long, wavy, blondish hair and a short beard. Yet the Holy ...
View full detailsCurrent price €37.13Original price €49.50Save 25% -
Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture: The Artistic Patronage of Otto III and Henry II
Eliza GarrisonCurrent price €146.27Original price €158.99Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture represents the first art historical consideration of the patronage of the Ottonian Emperors Otto III (983-100...
View full detailsCurrent price €146.27Original price €158.99Save 8% -
The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century Europe
Kirk AmbroseCurrent price €86.47Original price €93.99Richly-illustrated consideration of the meaning of the carvings of non-human beings, from centaurs to eagles, found in ecclesiastical settings. Re...
View full detailsCurrent price €86.47Original price €93.99Save 8% -
The Riddle of the Image: The Secret Science of Medieval Art
Spike BucklowCurrent price €32.24Original price €42.99The Riddle of the Image explores the materials and methods that lie behind the production of historic paintings. Spike Bucklow, who works as a rese...
View full detailsCurrent price €32.24Original price €42.99Save 25% -
Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces
Elina GertsmanCurrent price €71.18Original price €86.80This aptly-named book brings all manner of boundary-crossing into one provocative, material space in which we can view the riches of state-of-the-a...
View full detailsCurrent price €71.18Original price €86.80Save 18% -
Schne Seiten: Jdische Schriftkultur Aus Der Braginsky Collection
Scheidegger und Spiess AG VerlagCurrent price €58.87Original price €63.99Current price €58.87Original price €63.99Save 8% -
Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis
Andrew RamageCurrent price €82.31Original price €100.38This much-anticipated publication of two major Lydian excavation sectors at Sardis is the first in-depth presentation of the architecture and assoc...
View full detailsCurrent price €82.31Original price €100.38Save 18% -
Shakespeare''s Church, Otherwise the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity of Stratford-Upon-Avon - An Architectural and Ecclesiastical History of the Fabric and its Ornaments
J Harvey BloomCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
Shakespeare - His Birthplace and Its Neighbourhood
John R WiseCurrent price €16.52Original price €18.99Current price €16.52Original price €18.99Save 13% -
Roman Art: A Guide through The Metropolitan Museum of Art''s Collection
Christopher S. LightfootCurrent price €39.99Original price €49.99The collection of Roman art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the finest in the world. It contains more than 5,000 objects, including exq...
View full detailsCurrent price €39.99Original price €49.99Save 20% -
Byzantium and Beyond: Dave Pearson
The Dave Pearson TrustCurrent price €11.99Original price €15.99Current price €11.99Original price €15.99Sold out -
A Guide to the Medieval Alabasters of St Marie''s Cathedral, Sheffield
Deacon Bill BurleighCurrent price €10.43Original price €11.99Current price €10.43Original price €11.99Save 13% -
Treatises on friendship and old age
Marcus Tullius CiceroCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Current price €14.78Original price €16.99Save 13% -
Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China
Hou-Mei SungCurrent price €37.40Original price €42.99A richly illustrated book featuring recent revelations about China''s first emperor, Ying Zheng, and his famous burial site containing an army of l...
View full detailsCurrent price €37.40Original price €42.99Save 13% -
Image and Myth: A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art
Luca GiulianiCurrent price €68.07Original price €73.99On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece - but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? I...
View full detailsCurrent price €68.07Original price €73.99Save 8% -
Schaufenster des Himmels / Heaven on Display: Der Altenberger Altar und seine Bildausstattung / The Altenberg Altar and Its Imagery
De GruyterCurrent price €31.99Original price €39.99Fortunate circumstances led to the survival of the late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century high altar furnishings from the former Premonstrat...
View full detailsCurrent price €31.99Original price €39.99Save 20% -
Animal: A Beastly Compendium
Remi MathisCurrent price €48.44Original price €56.99This sumptuous book presents a selection of over one hundred stunning artworks, depicting animals real and mythical, from the prints and photograph...
View full detailsCurrent price €48.44Original price €56.99Save 15% -
From Workshop to Sanctuary the Production of Late Middle Kingdom Memorial Stelae
Alexander Ilin-TomichCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99This study is the evaluation of more than 1000 stelae dating to the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (1800 to 1550 BC). The stela...
View full detailsCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Save 10%