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  • Wicked Intelligence

    Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London

    par Matthew C. Hunter ...
    In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the “exact proportions” of sea monsters—all were created by members of the Royal Society of London, the leading institutional platform of the ... En savoir plus

    $69.99 CAD

  • Painting with Fire

    Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object

    par Matthew C. Hunter ...
    Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility ... En savoir plus

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  • Heretics and Heroes

    How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

    par Thomas Cahill ...
    Collections series The Hinges of History
    The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. • “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” —The Dallas Morning NewsThis was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Raphael

    par Eugene Müntz ...
    Raphael was the artist who most closely resembled Pheidias. The Greeks said that the latter invented nothing; rather, he carried every kind of art invented by his forerunners to such a pitch of perfection that he achieved pure and perfect harmony. Those words, “pure and perfect harmony,” express, in fact, better than any others what Raphael brought to Italian art. From Perugino, he gathered all ... En savoir plus

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  • The Medici

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Collections series Italian Histories
    A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Everything Da Vinci Book

    Explore the life and times of the Ultimate Renaissance Man

    par Shana Priwer, Cynthia Phillips ...
    Collections series Everything®
    Whatever you've heard about Leonardo Da Vinci, the truth is even more fascinating! From his provocative relationship with the church and secret societies such as the Freemasons to the secrets behind his art and inventions, Da Vinci was a man ahead of his time who willingly paid the price to live life his way. This multitalented man, arguably the greatest genius of all time, was not only a ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Boston Raphael

    A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Museum in an Era of Change and a Daughter's Search for the Truth

    par Belinda Rathbone ...
    The discovery of a previously unknown painting by an Italian Renaissance master, and how it went from media sensation to career-ending scandal.On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon afterward, an Italian art ... En savoir plus

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  • Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters

    par Amy Steedman ...
    Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman is a collection of biographical tales about the great Italian artists of the Renaissance. Written for young readers, the book presents the lives and achievements of painters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. Steedman recounts their struggles, triumphs, and contributions to the world of art in an engaging ... En savoir plus

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  • Bronzino to Vasari and General Index

    par Giorgio Vasari ...
    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, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing." ... En savoir plus

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  • The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism

    Visual Theology and Artistic Invention

    par Jack M. Greenstein ...
    Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their commitment to the naturalistic representation of the human figure. At the same time, the story of God constructing the first woman from a rib did not offer the kind of dignified, affective pictorial narrative that ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy

    par Andrew R. Casper ...
    Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy is the first book-length examination of the early career of one of the early modern period’s most notoriously misunderstood figures. Born around 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos began his career as an icon painter on the island of Crete. He is best known, under the name “El Greco,” for the works he created while in Spain, paintings that have provoked ... En savoir plus

    $93.59 CAD

  • How to Think Like da Vinci

    par Daniel Smith ...
    Collections series How to Think Like ...
    Famed for creating some of the most iconic images in European art – including Mona Lisa and The Last Supper – Leonardo da Vinci has influenced generations of artists and thinkers, and continues to do so after more than 500 years. While we cannot hope to emulate his achievements, da Vinci showed an attitude towards life from which we can all learn.A true polymath, he was also a sculptor, architect, ... En savoir plus

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