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  • The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

    by Emanuele Lugli ...
    An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements.Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence

    by Emanuele Lugli ...
    An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence.In this innovative cultural history, hair is the portal through which Emanuele Lugli accesses the cultural production of Lorenzo il Magnifico’s Florence. Lugli reflects on the ways writers, doctors, and artists expressed religious prejudices, health beliefs, and gender and class subjugation ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Measuring in the Renaissance

    An Introduction

    by Emanuele Lugli ...
    Series series Elements in the Renaissance
    During the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material production (ranging from architecture to tailoring), warfare, legal studies, and even our understanding of the heavens and hell. This study delves into the applications of measuring, with a particular emphasis on the Italian states, and traces its wide-ranging cultural effects. The homogeneization of measurements ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Michelangelo: Selected Readings

    Edited by William Wallace ...
    Michaelangelo: Selected Readings is the long-awaited condensation of the five volume English article collection of Michaelangelo's life. Selections include: Life and Early Works; The Sistine Chapel; San Lorenzo; Tomb of Julius II and Other Works in Rome; and Drawings, Poetry and Miscellaneous Studies. ... Read more

    $136.03 CAD

  • The matter of miracles

    Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity

    by Helen Hills ...
    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro’s miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Conspiracy Literature in Early Renaissance Italy

    Historiography and Princely Ideology

    by Marta Celati ...
    Series series Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
    Conspiracy has been a political phenomenon throughout history, relevant to any form of power from antiquity to the post-modern era. This means of resistance against power was prevalent during the Renaissance, and the Italian fifteenth century, in particular, can be regarded as an 'age of plots'. This book offers the first full-length investigation of Italian Renaissance literature on the topic of ... Read more

    $71.89 CAD

  • Italy’s Eighteenth Century

    Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour

    Edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Catherine M. Sama ...
    In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Hollow Men

    Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy

    by Susan Gaylard ...
    This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    by Josephine Jungic ...
    Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    by John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici

    Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler ...
    When he suddenly came to power in Italy in 1537, the young Duke Cosimo I de' Medici amazed friends and foes alike with his ability to extricate himself from mortal danger, affirm his authority and revive a dying state. He doubled the size of his duchy and established a dynasty that ruled unchallenged for 200 years. This volume is the first book-length study in any language to approach the figure ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court

    Objects and Exchanges

    by Leah R. Clark ...
    In this book, Leah R. Clark examines collecting practices across the Italian Renaissance court, exploring the circulation, exchange, collection, and display of objects. Rather than focusing on patronage strategies or the political power of individual collectors, she uses the objects themselves to elucidate the dynamic relationships formed through their exchange. Her study brings forward the ... Read more

    $122.39 CAD