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Jan van Eyck within His Art
Within His Art
Av Alfred Acres
Inbunden, 2023
214 kr
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Jan van Eyck was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The phenomenal realism of his paintings, now six centuries old, still astounds observers in a world accustomed to high-resolution images. But other dimensions of his work are just as original and …
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2023
217 kr
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Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female protagonists have excited modern audiences, …
Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity
Av Troy Thomas
Häftad, 2024
170 kr
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The great baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized painting by creating a new form of realistic art. His work depicted life directly, without sketches, resulting in a powerful psychological expression in his subjects. Caravaggio’s unconventional paintings have sparked debates …
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens
Inbunden, 2020
214 kr
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The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student duel, wrote Latin poetry and built one of the most astonishing villas of the period, as well as the observatory Uraniborg, while …
Giorgione’s Ambiguity
Av Tom Nichols
Inbunden, 2021
220 kr
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The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or ‘big George’ died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than 25 works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as the Three Philosophers and The Tempest …
Descartes
The Renewal of Philosophy
Inbunden, 2023
205 kr
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Often called ‘the father of modern philosophy’, René Descartes’ contributions to philosophy, mathematics and natural science set the intellectual agenda for the seventeenth century. In this biography and assessment of his works, based on the most up-to-date research, Steven Nadler follows Descartes …
Francisco de Zurbarán and the Fabric of the World
Inbunden, 2026
199 kr
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Francisco de Zurbarán, master of Spain’s Golden Age, painted with unmatched stillness and intensity. Famed for his monks, saints and martyrs, he also created mesmerizing still lifes, making fabrics shimmer and fruit glow with quiet presence. This book explores how Zurbarán’s art captures the …
Machiavelli
From Radical to Reactionary
Av Robert Black
Inbunden, 2022
214 kr
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‘Machiavellian’ can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself is far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of hugely influential political, military and historical works, Machiavelli was also a vernacular poet, …
Jan van Eyck within His Art
Av Alfred Acres
Häftad, 2026
170 kr
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Jan van Eyck was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The phenomenal realism of his paintings, now six centuries old, still astounds observers today. But other dimensions of his work are just as original and absorbing. Unlike any earlier artist, Van …
Albrecht Dürer
Art and Autobiography
Inbunden, 2023
214 kr
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The Italian Renaissance is conventionally thought of as the historical period that bore witness to the rise of the individual. Yet no other artist of the time begins to compare with Albrecht Dürer in terms of the almost obsessive interest he displayed in depicting his life, his dreams and his …
Hans Memling and the Merchants
Inbunden, 2025
203 kr
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Emigrating from southern Germany in the late fifteenth century, painter Hans Memling sought success in Bruges, which was a vibrant commercial hub at the time. Rather than among the nobility or ecclesiastical institutions, instead he found his audience in the new urban middle class of merchant …
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy
Inbunden, 2018
231 kr
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Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of a contemporary scientist. He was deeply involved in alchemical, religious and biblical studies, and in the later part of his life he played a prominent role in …
Leonardo da Vinci
Self, Art and Nature
Inbunden, 2019
225 kr
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This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes which shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and for ever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art and self-fashioning.Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan countryside before …
Titian’s Touch
Art, Magic and Philosophy
Av Maria H. Loh
Inbunden, 2019
206 kr
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At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumoured to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colours, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again. With nothing more than the stroke of a …
Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art
Inbunden, 2019
163 kr
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The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art – one that defines the Renaissance. His work was progressive, innovative, challenging and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and perspectives, Donatello depicted human sexuality, violence, …
Paracelsus
An Alchemical Life
Inbunden, 2019
225 kr
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Throughout his controversial life the alchemist, physician and social radical known as Paracelsus combined traditions that were magical and empirical, scholarly and folk, learned and artisanal. He endorsed both Catholic and Reformation beliefs, but believed devoutly in a female deity. He travelled …
Raphael and the Antique
Inbunden, 2020
239 kr
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The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman models – classical sculptures, reliefs and paintings – that formed his much admired …
Hans Holbein
The Artist in a Changing World
Inbunden, 2020
227 kr
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Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein moulded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life and the effects of new scientific discoveries. Most people have …
Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist
Inbunden, 2021
225 kr
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As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity and unparalleled subtlety to painting. In addition, Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveller, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron and …
John Donne
In the Shadow of Religion
Inbunden, 2021
244 kr
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John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne’s life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions and networks that influenced him. The book …
Leon Battista Alberti
The Chameleon’s Eye
Inbunden, 2022
227 kr
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One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti had an output that encompassed engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humour, political commentary and more. He employed irony, satire and playful allusion in his written works, and …
Salvator Rosa
Paint and Performance
Inbunden, 2022
231 kr
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Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted landscape painter, he longed to be seen as the pre-eminent philosopher-painter of his age. This new account traces Rosa’s strategies of self-promotion, …
Filippino Lippi
An Abundance of Invention
Inbunden, 2022
225 kr
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The first monograph in a generation, and the first study in English in over eighty years, this book presents a new understanding of the Renaissance master-artist Filippino Lippi. Celebrated as ‘ingenious’ by Vasari in 1550, Filippino was highly praised and influential, then fell out of favour and …
Petrarch
Everywhere a Wanderer
Häftad, 2022
214 kr
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Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. This is the first general account of Petrarch’s life and work in English in over thirty years, and considers how his reputation and identity have changed over the centuries. The book examines …
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature
Häftad, 2022
192 kr
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16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder redefined how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye to mankind’s labours and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life. Portraying landscapes, peasant life and biblical scenes in startling detail, Bruegel …
Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing
Inbunden, 2023
206 kr
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This book provides an overview of the life and work of the scandalous Renaissance writer Thomas Nashe (1567–c. 1600), perhaps the only English author whose work led to the closure of theatres and the widespread banning of printed books. Nashe was famous for writing the scurrilous novel The …
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Naturalist and Collector
Av Peter Mason
Inbunden, 2023
214 kr
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The Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was a prolific writer, polymath and prodigious collector who amassed the largest collection of naturalia in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as hundreds of coloured drawings detailing them. Many of these drawings found their way into his illustrated …
Aldus Manutius
The Invention of the Publisher
Häftad, 2023
214 kr
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Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest figure in the history of the printed book: in Venice, Europe’s capital of printing, he invented the italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than anyone before or since, as well as Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the most beautiful and mysterious …
Hieronymus Bosch
Visions and Nightmares
Av Nils Büttner
Häftad, 2023
192 kr
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In his lifetime Hieronymus Bosch was already famous for his fantastic, unearthly creations. Today his name has become synonymous with the eerie, infernal and macabre. Bosch’s enigmatic paintings have resulted in numerous interpretations; some tried to understand his visual worlds through esoteric …
Piero di Cosimo
Eccentricity and Delight
Inbunden, 2024
214 kr
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The singular Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) led a deliberately idiosyncratic life: he chose to live in squalor and ate nothing but boiled eggs, which, according to Vasari’s famous biography, he cooked fifty at a time in water used to prepare his painting glue.Sarah Blake McHam …
