History of Art & Design Styles: c 1600 to c 1800
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Bernini: His Life and His Rome
Franco MormandoCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses ...
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Understanding Caravaggio and his Art in Malta
Sandro Debono€7.00Understanding Caravaggio and his Art in Malta is a guidebook about the artists stay in Malta in early 17th century. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravagg...
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The Lives of Caravaggio
Giovanni BaglioneCurrent price €11.60Original price €14.50In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisl da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionised painting, producing a style of shockingly i...
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Titian: His Life and Works in 500 Images: An illustrated exploration of the artist and his context, with a gallery of his paintings and drawings
Susie HodgeCurrent price €17.59Original price €21.99Celebrated for his use of expressive brush marks, which filled his paintings with dynamism, light and colour in a way not seen before in Renaissanc...
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Jonathan JonesCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers h...
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The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez
Laura CummingCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSele...
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Sheila BarkerCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist...
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The Story of Painting: How art was made
DKCurrent price €25.59Original price €31.99An original and breathtakingly beautiful perspective on how art developed through the ages, this book reveals how new materials and techniques insp...
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Art: A Visual History
Robert CummingCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar DegasCovering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide of...
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The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
DKCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tric...
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Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
Anja GrebeCurrent price €64.37Original price €73.99Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or m...
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Delicious Decadence The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Sasha DiGiulianCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, schol...
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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €60.89Original price €69.99The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...
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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €128.75Original price €147.99The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...
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Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 17891828
Allison M. StaggCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and o...
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
Anne HigonnetCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals,...
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Exhibiting Outside the Academy, Salon and Biennial, 1775-1999: Alternative Venues for Display
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €115.19Original price €143.99In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, ...
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The Attention of a Traveller: Essays on William Bartram''s Travels and Legacy
Alina JosanCurrent price €25.68Original price €32.50New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartrams journey through what would become the southeastern United States William Bartram, autho...
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Luca Giordano: Baroque Master in Florence
Officina LibrariaCurrent price €31.99Original price €39.99Luca Giordano (Naples, 16341705) was one of Italys most celebrated Baroque painters when he travelled to Florence, where his art was already apprec...
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Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680 1980
Hirmer VerlagCurrent price €55.67Original price €63.99This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japans period of seclusion, to its age of modernization...
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Portraiture, Dynasty and Power: Art Patronage in Hanoverian Britain, 1714-1759
Catherine TiteCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99Current price €107.00Original price €122.99Save 13% -
UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
Alice LoxtonCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historian...
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Louise Moillon
Lesley StevensonCurrent price €35.99Original price €44.99Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole ...
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Sofonisba Anguissola
Cecilia GamberiniCurrent price €35.99Original price €44.99Sofonisba Anguissola (c.15321625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, was one of the first women artists of Europe t...
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Describing Womens Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England
Dr Elizabeth SpencerCurrent price €73.07Original price €83.99Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteen...
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Charles-Joseph Natoire and the Académie de France in Rome: A Re-Evaluation
Reed BenhamouCurrent price €71.19Original price €88.99In 1752 Charles-Joseph Natoire, then a highly successful painter, assumed the directorship of the prestigious Académie de France in Rome. Twenty-th...
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The Profession of Sculpture in the Paris ''Académie''
Thomas MacsotayCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99The profession of sculpture was transformed during the eighteenth century as the creation and appreciation of art became increasingly associated wi...
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The Temperamental Nude: Class, Medicine and Representation in eighteenth-century France
Tony HallidayCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99Although discredited by seventeenth-century scientists, temperament theory which attributed human moods to the interaction of four distinct bodily...
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Veritatis Imago: Visuelle Konzepte der Wahrheit in der niederländischen Druckgraphik des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts
Mariam HammamiCurrent price €67.85Original price €77.99The study analyzes differentiated concepts of truth in Dutch prints of the 16th and 17th centuries. Against the backdrop of religious and politica...
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Das Herz in den Bildmedien religiöser Frauengemeinschaften: Frühneuzeitliche Körperkonzepte im Spannungsverhältnis von Konfession, Stand und Geschlecht
Maria SchallerCurrent price €66.98Original price €76.99The heart had a key position in the visual media of religious womens communities in the early modern era. Maria Schaller analyzes portraits and ima...
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Dessins Bolonais
Catherine LoiselCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99Since 1972, the Drawings and Prints Department of the Louvre has published the reportoire of the Italian drawings held in its collections. This vol...
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Prints in Translation, 1450-1750: Image, Materiality, Space
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €46.10Original price €52.99Printed artworks were often ephemeral, but in the early modern period, exchanges between print and other media were common, setting off chain react...
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Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; pract...
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Picturing Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768): Representing Queenship in Eighteenth-Century France
Jennifer G GermannCurrent price €115.19Original price €143.99Portraits of Queen Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) were highly visible in eighteenth-century France. Appearing in royal châteaux and, after 1737, in ...
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James Barry, 1741-1806: History Painter
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €133.97Original price €153.99Bringing into relief the singularity of Barry's unswerving commitment to his vision for history painting despite adverse cultural, political and co...
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The Arts of Living: Europe 1600-1800
PitkinCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50The Arts of Living explores the range, depth and beauty of the V&A's European collections from 1600-1815, the period that laid the foundations ...
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Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque
Barbara LauxCurrent price €113.96Original price €130.99Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque is the first substantial biographical study of Claude III Audran, a late 17th- and early 18th-ce...
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Pearls for the Crown: Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion
Mónica Domínguez TorresCurrent price €84.38Original price €96.99In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimate...
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Networks and Practices of Connoisseurship in the Global Eighteenth Century
De GruyterCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of accelerating trade and imperial co...
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State Hermitage Museum Catalogue: Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century French Painting
Natalia SerebriannaiaCurrent price €87.19Original price €108.99For the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents the collection of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century French paintings in...
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Manhattan Masters: Dutch Paintings from the Frick Collection
Uitgeverij de KunstCurrent price €31.19Original price €38.99Manhattan Masters shows the most beautiful Dutch Masters from the Golden Age in The Frick Collection, New York. The book elaborates the creation of...
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Pioneering Ceramics
Uitgeverij de KunstCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99This book sheds new light on Delft pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries. During this period, the Delft pottery industry took off, under the str...
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Piranesi. The Complete Etchings
Luigi FicacciCurrent price €59.19Original price €73.99The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chi...
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Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 17901840
Michael J. HatchCurrent price €98.30Original price €112.99In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among Chinas educated elites began to use touch...
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Traces of Vermeer
Jane JelleyCurrent price €15.19Original price €18.99Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; th...
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Masterpiece: Peter Paul Rubens
Till-Holger BorchertCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50Following Masterpiece: Hieronymus Bosch, Masterpiece: Peter Paul Rubens shows the paintings of this Flemish master as never seen before. With ama...
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The Catholic Rubens Saints and Martyrs
. SauerlanderCurrent price €40.79Original price €50.99This is a rich exploration of the role the Baroque master played in the Counter-Reformation. The art of Rubens is rooted in an era darkened by the ...
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Literature and the Arts: Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn
University of Delaware PressCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James And...
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