14,939円 Guardians of Republicanism analyses the political and intellectual history of Renaissance Florence-republican and princely-by focusing on five generations of the Valori family, each of which played a dynamic role in the city's political and cultural life. The Valori were early and influential sup...

12,933円 The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnograp...

12,933円 First published in 1961. Critiquing the critics, and examining the vocabulary of twentieth century criticism of the Shakespearean tragedies, John Holloway's book covers Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and the themes of Shakespearean Tragedy a...

299円 This beautifully presented edition reproduces all of Doré's London illustrations alongside carefully selected texts of the period.

1,013円 In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, ...

1,060円 Egon Schiele werd geboren in Tulln op 12 juni 1890 en stierf in Wenen op 31 oktober 1918. Hij was een Oostenrijks expressionistisch kunstschilder. Zowel zijn grootvader als zijn vader werkten bij de spoorwegen. Een loopbaan bij de spoorwegen had voor de hand gelegen, maar Schiele ging tegen de oo...

8,263円 The expressions of American hostility toward France after 9/11 are not new - Franco-American relations in the early twentieth century were also difficult, characterized by the same antagonistic depictions of the other's culture. Ambassador Jules Jusserand's years in Washington (1903-24) were defi...

9,119円 This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It engages with artists' use of different kinds of body images in painting, sculpture, photography and film, and shows the centrality of the body in the work of artists from da Vinci to Manet.

1,060円 Pierre-Auguste Renoir werd geboren in Limoges op 25 februari 1841 en stierf in Cagnes-sur-Mer op 3 december 1919. Hij was een Frans impressionistisch kunstschilder. Al op zijn dertiende werkte Renoir als leerling-schilder. Hij schilderde bloemen op keramiek. Toen dit proces werd geautomatiseerd m...

1,060円 Camille Claudel (8 décembre 1864-19 octobre 1943), sœur de l’écrivain Paul Claudel, fut l’élève de Rodin avec qui elle eut une relation passionnelle et tumultueuse. Cet amour impossible la mena à la paranoïa et l’enfermement psychiatrique en 1913. Camille Claudel fut l’une des plus grandes sculpt...

164円 11 black-and-white illustrations. Volume 10 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, S...

16,848円 This book provides a survey of the architecture and urbanism of Provence during the Roman era. Provence, or 'Gallia Narbonensis' as the Romans called it, was one of the earliest Roman colonies in Western Europe. In this book, James C. Anderson, jr. examines the layout and planning of towns in the...