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Giulio Romano, Master Designer: An Exhibition of Drawings in Celebration of the Five Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth
by Romano, Giulio; Cox-Rearick, Janet (Edited with an Introduction by), and Aste, Richard, et al. (Contributions by)
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- 1999
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New York: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1999. 168 pages, illustrations; 30 cm. Exhibition held September 16 to November 27, 1999 at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer
by Panofsky, Erwin
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- 4th
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- 1971
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- 9780691003030
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971. xxxii, 317 pages, 325 plates; 27 cm. Reprint 1995. Tight, clean copy. The greatest art historian analyses the work of the German Renaissance master Albrecht Durer, who is better known for his prints and drawings rather than his paintings. CONTENTS: Apprenticeship and early years of travel, 1484-1495; Five years of intense productivity, 1495-1500; Five… Read more about this item Item Price
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by King, Ross
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- 2001
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New York: Penguin Books, 2001. 194 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man - even by the generous standards according to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. He also designed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore -… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Art of Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, 1460-1590
by Huse, Norbert, and Wolters, Wolfgang; Jephcott, Edmund (Translated by)
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- 1990
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- 9780226361079
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Cloth, v, 382 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Translation of: Venedig, die Kunst der Renaissance. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with a small corner crease/front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "In the first contemporary… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. Musee Conde, Chantilly
by Limbourg Brothers; Longnon, Jean, and Cazelles, Raymond (Introduction and Legends by), and Meiss, Millard (Preface by)
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- 1969
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New York: George Braziller, 1969. Red cloth, 224 pages, 139 pages of plates, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Slipcase with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Miniatures from MS. 65 in the Bibliotheque of the Musee Conde, Chantilly, by the brothers Jean, Herman, and Pol de Limbourg, under the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Medici Giraffe: And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power
by Belozerskaya, Marina
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- 2006
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- 9780316525657
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2006. xv, 414 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: Elephants for a kingdom; Controlling nature in the Roman arena; How a giraffe turned a merchant into a prince; Human animals in the new world and the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Prince Henry "the Navigator": A Life
by Russell, P. E. (Peter Edward)
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- 2000
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Cloth, xvi, 448 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "This is not a biography in the traditional sense. Too few of Henry's writings survive to provide the kind of material… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800
by Jutte, Daniel; Riemer, Jeremiah (Translated by)
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- 2015
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. ix, 431 pages; 25 cm. First published under title: Zeitalter des Geheimnisses. Translated from the German. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge… Read more about this item Item Price
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Isaacson, Walter
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- 2017
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- 9781501139154
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. xii, 599 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. SIGNED by the author in the year of publication. Two colour photos of the author at a signing event are laid in. Stated First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.… Read more about this item Item Price
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
by Barzun, Jacques
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- 2000
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- 9780060175863
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New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. Cloth, xviii, 877 pages; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now… Read more about this item Item Price
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Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power
by Sumira, Sylvia
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- 2014
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- 9780226139005
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Cloth, 224 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "All you ever wanted to know about the history of globes and how they have been made. See inside them as well… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Florentine Renaissance
by Cronin, Vincent
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- 1967
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1967. Cloth, 316 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: The city and its citizens; A turning-point; The classical ideal; The republic and the Medici; Man whole… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Transmission of Fame: Italian Renaissance Prints
by Phagan, Patricia
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- 2004
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Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2004. 28 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, April 9 to June 13, 2004. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corner crease/front cover. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Item Price
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Religious Art: From the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century
by Male, Emile
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- 1958
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New York: Noonday Press, 1958. 208 pages, [48] pages of plates, 48 illustrations; 21 cm. N124. Translation of L'art religieux du XIIe au XVIIIe siecle. Tight, clean copy. Expected browning. CONTENTS: RELIGIOUS ART FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY. Origins; The influence of liturgical drama; The influence of Saint-Denis and of Suger; Art and the saints; The pilgrimages: the Italian roads; The… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Art of the Italian Renaissance: A Handbook for Students and Travellers
by Wolfflin, Heinrich
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- 1963
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New York: Schocken Books, 1963. 290 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. SB42. Translation of: Die klassische Kunst. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Sunned spine, browning. CONTENTS: Introduction: Classic art; pt. 1. Preliminary survey. Leonardo. Michelangelo (to 1520) Raphael. Fra Bartolommeo. Andrea del Sarto. Michelangelo (after 1520); pt. 2. The new feeling. The new beauty. The new pictorial form.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
by Leonardo, da Vinci; MacCurdy, Edward (Edited by)
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- 2003
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- 9781568524481
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Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2003. 1180 pages, illustrations, portrait; 24 cm. Arranged, rendered into English and introduced by Edward MacCurdy. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Definitive Edition in One Volume.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Item Price
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The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
by Heilbron, J. L.
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- 1999
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- 9780674854338
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Cloth, ix, 366 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap, protected in a mylar cover. "Through much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an… Read more about this item Item Price
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Michelangelo: His Epic Life
by Gayford, Martin
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- 2013
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- 9781905490547
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London: Fig Tree; Penguin, 2013. xxv, 661 pages, illustrations (some colour), 1 map; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "This is a new biography of Michelangelo by Martin Gayford, the acclaimed author of 'Constable in Love' and 'The Yellow House'.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Inventing Leonardo
by Turner, A. Richard (Almon Richard)
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- 1993
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- 9780520089389
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. x, 268 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear, age toning. "As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance… Read more about this item Item Price
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Veronese
by Veronese, Paolo; Piovene, Guido (Text by)
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- 2005
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- 9788817006804
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Milan: Skira; Rizzoli, 2005. 189 pages, colour illustrations; 21 cm. Text in Italian/Testo in italiano. Firm binding, clean inside copy. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Item Price
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