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Architecture in the Age of Reason Baroque and Post-Bby E. KaufmannISBN 0486219283 (0-486-21928-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700by Anthony Blunt, Richard BeresfordISBN 0300077483 (0-300-07748-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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- Art and Architecture in France, 1500 to 1700: ISBN 0140561048 (0-14-056104-8)
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Art and Architecture in Italy: 1600-1750by Rudolf WittkowerISBN 0140561161 (0-14-056116-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Art of Describingby Svetlana AlpersISBN 0226015130 (0-226-01513-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Baroqueby John Rupert MartinISBN 0064300773 (0-06-430077-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Baroqueby Rolf TomanISBN 3895089176 (3-89508-917-6)
Hardcover, Konemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Baroque'Book summary:These substantial volumes on art periods vividly portray the most important achievements from the areas of European architecture, sculpture, and painting. The impressive photographs of works from all visual arts movements are at the center of these richly illustrated volumes. The books successfully provide an overview of the artistic diversity of the individual periods, and they couldn't have been written and illustrated any more clearly. The informative and interesting texts have been written by renowned authors from the fields of history, architecture and art history, providing a multifaceted view of each period. These books are a real pleasure for anyone with an interest in art. [via]
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Baroque & Rococo: Art & Cultureby Vernon Hyde MinorISBN 0130856495 (0-13-085649-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baroque & Rococo: Art & Culture'Book summary:The first survey of the Baroque and Rococo periods to incorporate modern scholarship in an entertaining and accessible way. Organized thematically, rather than strictly by dates and countries, it looks at art through the context of the church, monarchy, and the establishment of the academies, and considers women artists and gender issues. Features a 4-page illustrated timeline of art and history, 1600-1760. Introduction to the Baroque and Rococo as Idea and Image. Social, Cultural, and Artistic Institutions. The Baroque Church as Setting for Mystery, Propaganda, and Worship. Interiors: Papal Tombs, Altarpieces, and Ceiling Paintings. Visual Rhetoric: Styles in the Baroque and Rococo. Portraits, Still Lifes, and Genre Paintings. Landscapes and Views. Town and Country: Baroque and Rococo Places. Baroque and Rococo Settings: Domestic Spaces, Furniture, and Gardens. Quarrels with the Baroque: How Eighteenth-century French and Italian Art Tried to Repudiate its Past. For anyone interested in Art History, particularly the Baroque and Rococo periods.
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Baroque and Rococoby Germain BazinISBN 0500200181 (0-500-20018-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Baroque Musicby Claude V. PaliscaISBN 0130584967 (0-13-058496-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Berniniby Howard HibbardISBN 0140135987 (0-14-013598-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroqueby Rudolf WittkowerISBN 0714837156 (0-7148-3715-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Caravaggioby Catherine PuglisiISBN 0714839663 (0-7148-3966-3)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caravaggio'Book summary:As Catherine Puglisi points out in the most beautiful Caravaggio book ever, the soulful, tormented, ethereally talented painter has become a pop icon, with a "full-blown industry of Caravaggio publications." Puglisi's book is a standout in this crowded field. With remarkable evenhandedness, she sifted through the scholarship and discoveries--and the trash--of the past 20 years and wrote a Caravaggio book that does justice to the painter's glorious work. She doesn't skimp on the juicy parts of his life, however: she candidly but coolly recounts and appraises the bits of historical evidence for his sexuality (both hetero and homo), his use of whores and ruffians as models, and his many scrapes with the law. All the while, she focuses the reader on the paintings, aptly describing such naturalistic, groundbreaking works as The Calling of St. Matthew, of 1599.
Gazing at the large, double-page color plates in Puglisi's book, it is easy to feel the erotic pull of the many early canvasses of supple youths that have been so widely reproduced in recent years. But the later religious pictures, in which the models for the saints and Madonnas still seem almost palpable in their reality, have the most dramatic magnetism. Rest on the Flight into Egypt is particularly moving. It may never be possible to unravel the tangled web of Caravaggio's life, but Puglisi manages to restore a welcome balance to our view of his art. --Peggy Moorman [via]
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Caravaggioby Helen LangdonISBN 0374118949 (0-374-11894-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caravaggio'Book summary:Seventeenth-century painter Nicolas Poussin once said that Caravaggio came into the world to destroy painting. Helen Langdon's marvelous biography suggests that rather than destroying painting, the Milanese artist gave it a new lease on life. Upon his arrival in Rome, Caravaggio ended a tradition of Italian Renaissance painting with his radically new naturalistic style, which continues to dazzle and influence viewers today. Beautifully poised between biographical scholarship and artistic appreciation, Langdon's book provides the reader with a complex, fascinating portrait of Caravaggio, still the rebel and outsider of the popular imagination, but also immersed in the Roman world of art, politics, and patronage. Some of the finest sections of the book vividly evoke the streets and brothels of early 17th-century Rome, which provided Caravaggio with the inspiration for many of his early works. By contrast, the later sections--which deal with Caravaggio's exile and commissions in Naples, Malta, and Sicily--seem rather brief and truncated, giving the final third of the book a rather unbalanced feel. This is, however, partly due to the elusiveness of Caravaggio himself--with little direct contemporary documentation on the painter, he often slips into the shadows, evading the scrutiny of even the most persistent biographer.
Langdon's achievement here is to produce a compelling portrait of the artist that throws new light on his paintings. Here is a painter who was proud, difficult, and arrogant, yet highly intellectual in his appreciation of the changing face of both Catholicism and scientific enquiry. Written with great historical clarity, and supplemented by 42 magnificent color illustrations, Helen Langdon's Caravaggio is a worthy contribution to scholarly study of this artist. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Caravaggio: A Lifeby Helen LangdonISBN 0813337941 (0-8133-3794-1)
Softcover, Westview Press
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The Confusionby Neal StephensonISBN 0060733357 (0-06-073335-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion'Book summary:In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.
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The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child.
While ...
Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
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The Confusion Ltdby Neal StephensonISBN 0060599340 (0-06-059934-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion Ltd'Book summary:In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended. [via]
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Dutch Art and Architecture:1600 to 1800: 1600 to 1800by Jakob Rosenberg, Seymour Slive, Engelbert H. ter KuileISBN 0140561277 (0-14-056127-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Dutch Painting 1600-1800by Seymour SliveISBN 0300074514 (0-300-07451-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dutch Painting 1600-1800'Book summary:This lavishly illustrated book is an authoritative study of Dutch painting from 1600 to 1800 and covers all the major artists of the period -- including Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer -- setting them firmly in the wider context of Dutch art. It has immediately established itself as the new standard work on this great period of painting.
"Seymour Slive's text first appeared in 1966 in partnership with the late Jakob Rosenberg. It was wonderful then, and it is even more so now that Mr. Slive has revised and expanded his text, and the number of illustrations is now 432, about twice as many as before". -- John Russell, New York Times Book Review
"Slive is a great teacher and he knows how to impart his enthusiasm to his readers.... This volume is the useful instrument which every user will hope and expect to find". -- Lyckle De Vries, Burlington Magazine
"Like the original Pelican volume, this one is an essential reference and serves both the academic and the general reader". -- Choice [via]
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The Dying Earthby Jack VanceISBN 0671655647 (0-671-65564-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroqueby Gilles Deleuze, Tom ConleyISBN 0816616019 (0-8166-1601-9)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Four Stages of Renaissance Styleby Wylie SypherISBN 0844630438 (0-8446-3043-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroqueby Howard Hibbard, Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower, Thomas MartinISBN 0714821934 (0-7148-2193-4)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroqueby Rudolf WittkowerISBN 080141430X (0-8014-1430-X)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Glorianaby Michael MoorcockISBN 0446691402 (0-446-69140-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gloriana'Book summary:A fable satirizing Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities choke her, prohibiting any form of sexual satisfaction, no matter what fetish she tries. Her problem is in fact symbolic of the hypocrisy of her entire court. While her life is meant to mirror that of her nation - an image of purity, virtue, enlightenment and prosperity - the truth is that her peaceful empire is kept secure by her wicked chancellor Monfallcon and his corrupt network of spies and murderers, the most sinister of whom is Captain Quire, who is commissioned to seduce Gloriana and thus bring down Albion and the entire empire. [via]
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Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen Being a Romanceby Michael MoorcockISBN 085031237X (0-85031-237-X)
Hardcover, Allison & Busby
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen Being a Romance'Book summary:Queen Elizabeth I of England (ruled in late 1500's), also known as Gloriana and Good Queen Bess, has been a source of endless fascination for centuries. There are many movies (Elizabeth made Cate Blanchett's career) and dozens of books, not to mention Web sites devoted to her. While there was great strife during her reign, Elizabeth I was one of the most beloved monarchs of all time, and her period is known as the Golden Age of English history. Some of the world's greatest luminaries came from her country in that period, including William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and Sir Walter Raleigh.
A fable satirizing Spenser's The Faerie Queene and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I. GLORIANA, OR THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities choke her, prohibiting any form of sexual satisfaction no matter what fetish she tries. Her problem is in fact symbolic of the hypocrisy of her entire court. While her life is meant to mirror that of her nation¿an image of purity, virtue, enlightenment, and prosperity the truth is that her peaceful empire is kept secure by her wicked chancellor Montfallcon and his corrupt network of spies and murderers, the most sinister of whom Captain Quire, is commissioned to seduce Gloriana and thus bring down Albion and the entire empire. [via]More editions of Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen Being a Romance:
Gloriana, or the Unfulfilled Queenby Michael MoorcockISBN 0445208627 (0-445-20862-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Isla Del Dia De Antes: Laura EsquivelISBN 8426412386 (84-264-1238-6)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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The Island of the Day Beforeby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156030373 (0-15-603037-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of the Day Before'Book summary:In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessels mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns his eras obsession with science and navigation. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of The Island of the Day Before:
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Italian Baroque and Rococo Architectureby John VarrianoISBN 0195035488 (0-19-503548-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Italian High Renaissance & Baroque Sculptureby John Pope-HennessyISBN 0714838837 (0-7148-3883-7)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture'Book summary:For the fourth edition of this introduction to Italian sculpture, the author has thoroughly revised the text, notes and bibliographies, incorporating all the significant new research and publications since the last major revision in 1970-2. Volume III, ranging from 1500 to the late-17th century, begins and ends with two outstanding personalities: Michelangelo and Bernini. Michelangelo forged a new and ideal style, the development of which is traced in the work of Andrea and Jacopo Sansovino, Benvenuto Cellini, Giambologna, Pietro Tacca, Leone Leoni, Alessandro Vittoria and others. The author also describes the artistic problems presented by the statue, relief, portrait, tomb and fountain in the 16th century, culminating in the dramatic innovations of Bernini which ushered in the Baroque style. The new edition of this work provides an accessible introduction to the subject for scholars, students and all lovers of Italian art. At the same time its scholarly notes make it a valuable reference work. Each volume in the set of three can be enjoyed in its own right. [via]
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Johann Sebastian Bach: 2 And 3 Part Inventions For Pianoby Hans Bischoff, Johann Sebastian BachISBN 0769234593 (0-7692-3459-3)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musicianby Christoph WolffISBN 0393322564 (0-393-32256-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician'Book summary:The Learned Musician is an apt subtitle for this intellectual biography, which assesses the career of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) with the scholarly rigor one would expect from a Harvard professor. Opening with a 1737 attack by a critic who labeled Bach a pedant who spoiled the natural beauty of his creations with "an excess of art," Christoph Wolff cogently compares the German composer to English scientist Isaac Newton. Both men "brought about fundamental changes and established new principles" in their chosen fields, he argues; both sought to reveal God's harmonious ordering of their world. While Wolff conscientiously covers the basics of Bach's life, including his two marriages and the musical achievements of his gifted family, the author's primary focus is on his performing (Bach was an unrivaled organist) and composing. From the Goldberg Variations through the Brandenburg Concertos to Art of the Fugue, Wolff carefully analyzes Bach's innovations in harmony and counterpoint, placing them in the context of European musical and social history rendered in nicely atmospheric detail. Casual readers may find this dense tome a bit daunting, but serious music lovers will relish the deeper understanding it conveys of a genius who transformed Western music. --Wendy Smith [via]
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L'Isola Del Giorno Primaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246442 (88-452-4644-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Isola Del Giorno Prima'Book summary:Nell'estate del 1643 un giovane piemontese naufraga, nei mari del sud, su di una nave deserta. Di fronte a lui un'Isola che non può raggiungere. Intorno a lui un ambiente apparentemente accogliente. Solo, su un mare sconosciuto, Roberto de la Grive vede per la prima volta in vita sua cieli, acque, uccelli, piante, pesci e coralli che non sa come nominare. Scrive lettere d'amore, attraverso le quali si indovina la sua storia: una lenta e traumatica iniziazione al mondo secentesco della nuova scienza, della ragion di stato, di un cosmo in cui la terra non è più al centro dell'universo. Roberto vive la sua vicenda tutta giocata sulla memoria e sull'attesa di approdare a un'Isola che non è lontana solo nello spazio, ma anche nel tempo. [via]
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The Lives of Caravaggioby Giovanni Baglione, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Giorgio Mancini, Helen LangdonISBN 0952998688 (0-9529986-8-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives of Caravaggio'Book summary:In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe and still resonates today. Almost everything we know about his life comes from these three early biographies, and they reflect the often horrified fascination that Caravaggio exerted on his contemporaries. Giorgio Mancini, his physician, underscored the value of Caravaggios revival of painting. Giovanni Baglione, a mediocre rival, is far less generous, but unable to hide his awe. The leading art historian of the following generation, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, produced a more balanced assessment, with detailed analyses of many of his major paintings. The Lives of Caravaggio is introduced by Helen Langdon, the leading expert on the painter, who elucidates the historical and artistic context of these biographies.[via]More editions of The Lives of Caravaggio:
The Lost Paintingby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375759867 (0-375-75986-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpieceby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375431535 (0-375-43153-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece'Book summary:In 1992 a young art student uncovered a clue in an obscure Italian archive that led to the discovery of Caravaggio's original The Taking of the Christ, a painting that had been presumed lost for over 200 years. How this clue--a single entry in an old listing of family possessions--led to a residence in Ireland and the subsequent restoration of this Italian Baroque masterpiece is the subject of this brisk and enthralling detective story. The Lost Painting reads more like a historical novel than art history, as Harr smoothly weaves several narratives together to bring the story alive. Though he does not provide an in-depth examination of the painting itself--the book is not aimed specifically at art experts--Harr does include many details for lay readers about restoration, the various methods used to track artwork through history, how originals are distinguished from copies, and an inside view of the art world, past and present. He also discusses various forensic approaches, including X ray, infrared reflectography, chemical analysis of the paints and canvas, and other modern techniques. But most of the book is focused on more primitive methods, including dogged research through dusty archives and meticulous attention to detail.
This entertaining book boasts an engaging cast of characters, all of whom are inflicted with the "Caravaggio disease," including some of the foremost Caravaggio scholars in the world, persistent students, obsessive restorers, and most of all, the artist himself. Mercurial, supremely gifted, and prone to violence, Caravaggio lived like an outlaw and a pauper most of his troubled life. Yet even when he attained wealth and fame--and briefly, respectability--he was still hounded by the law (for murder) and numerous vengeful enemies. Harr does an admirable job of bringing the man alive in these pages while keeping his long-lost painting at the center of the action. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Mby Peter RobbISBN 0747548587 (0-7475-4858-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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M: The Man Who Became Caravaggioby Peter RobbISBN 0312274742 (0-312-27474-2)
Softcover, Picador USA
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As vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological war against which, despite all odds, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, "There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same." Robb's masterful biography "re-creates the mirror Cravaggio held up to nature," as Hilary Spurling wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "with singular delicacy as well as passion and panache."More editions of M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio:
The Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Ian MacLean, Jan PotockiISBN 0670834289 (0-670-83428-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Jan Potocki, Ian MacLeanISBN 0140445803 (0-14-044580-3)
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Mass in B Minor in Full Scoreby Johann Sebastian BachISBN 0486259927 (0-486-25992-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Messiahby George Frideric HandelISBN 0793505070 (0-7935-0507-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Messiah'Book summary:Anyone attending a Messiah sing-along is most likely to fit in when using this old favorite edition. The musicological work has been superseded by Watkins Shaw's edition for Novello, but his piano reductions are idiosyncratic. This piano-vocal score has no measure numbers or rehearsal figures, but the reduction is pianistic in scope. The choral lines are in smaller type but are workable. The price is of course also highly attractive. Listeners who truly love this work may be interested in the full orchestral score--also at a great price--from Dover, edited by Alfred Mann. --William R. Braun [via]
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The New Science of Giambattista Vicoby Giovanni Battista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin, Max Harold FischISBN 0801492653 (0-8014-9265-3)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Science of Giambattista Vico'Book summary:A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory. It represents the most ambitious attempt before Comte at comprehensive science of human society and the most profound analysis of the class struggle prior to Marx. [via]
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The Passion of Artemisiaby Susan VreelandISBN 0142001821 (0-14-200182-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion of Artemisia'Book summary:Like her bestselling debut, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland's second novel, The Passion of Artemisia, traces a particular painting through time: in this case, the post-Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi's violent masterpiece, "Judith." Although the novel purports to cover the life of the painter, the painting serves as a touchstone, foreshadowing Artemisia's rape by Agostino Tassi, an assistant in her father's painting studio in Rome; the well-documented (and humiliating) trial that followed; the early days of her hastily arranged marriage; and her eventual triumph as the first woman elected to the Accademia dell' Arte in Florence. Although Vreeland makes a bit free with her characters (which she admits in her introduction), attributing some decidedly modern attitudes to people who would not have thought that way at the time, her book is beautifully researched and rich with casual detail of clothing, interiors, and street life. She deftly works history and politics into the background of her canvas, keeping her focus on Artemisia and her family. Beyond the paintings Artemisia left behind, Vreeland's vision may be as close as we can come to understanding the anger and ambition that kept this talented woman at the doors of the Accademia, demanding entrance, in a time when respectable women rarely left their homes. --Regina Marler [via]
Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations Between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroqueby Francis HaskellISBN 0300025408 (0-300-02540-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Princely Courts of Europe 1500-1750by John AdamsonISBN 1841880973 (1-84188-097-3)
Softcover, Seven Dials
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princely Courts of Europe 1500-1750'Book summary:Court life throughout the golden age of Europe's ancien régime is invariably imagined as a world of decadent absolutist authority, a closed inner circle from which sovereigns such as James I and Louis XIV exercised complete control over their kingdoms. In his splendid collection The Princely Courts of Europe: 1500-1750, historian John Adamson brings together a fine group of essays on 12 of the greatest courts in Europe of the period, which offers a far more complicated picture of court life.
As Adamson argues in his concise introduction, "the court was never a single entity, nor did it offer a single route to patronage or power. In reality, the separate households of the ruler's consort, his heir, even those of powerful ministers, could operate to qualify or sometimes eclipse the authority of the ruler." Subsequent chapters by experts on the courts of the Spanish Habsburgs, the Valois, the Tudors and Stuarts, the House of Orange, Rome, the Hohenzollerns, and the Medici offer fascinating insights into the rituals, etiquette, politics, architecture, art, and daily life of the various courts. At the center of these courts lie some of the greatest and most infamous of all European monarchs, including Henry VIII, Charles V, Louis XIV, and Peter the Great. What really impresses about The Princely Courts of Europe is its eye for the artistic nature of court life. Lavish color illustrations throughout offer an insight into the visually arresting splendor of court life of the period. It is also admirable in offering interesting insights into the courts of Sweden and Russia, but where are the Ottoman Turks? --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Princely Courts of Europe 1500-1750: Ritual, Politics and Culture Under the Ancien Regime 1500-1750by John AdamsonISBN 0297836536 (0-297-83653-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princely Courts of Europe 1500-1750: Ritual, Politics and Culture Under the Ancien Regime 1500-1750'Book summary:In the period between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, the court was paramount in European political and cultural life. It was not only the princes' place of residence, it functioned as the seat of government, the stage for factional and dynastic rivalries, and often as a major source of artistic patronage. Explore twelve of the great European courts. Learn how these households were run, how the architecture of their palaces and gardens was adapted to the routines of courtly life, what role the courts played in the princes' relations with the wider community of the realm, and how magnificence and ritual were deployed to political ends. It's a lavish introduction to a vanished world. 352 pages, 80 color illus., 70 b/w illus., 7 3/4 x 10 1/2. NEW IN PAPERBACK[via]More editions of The Princely Courts of Europe 1500-1750: Ritual, Politics and Culture Under the Ancien Regime 1500-1750:
Principles of Art History the Problem of the Developmentby H. WolfflinISBN 0844632058 (0-8446-3205-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.by Heinrich W”OlfflinISBN 0486202763 (0-486-20276-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.'Book summary:[via]Originally published in Germany during the 1920s, this now-classic study surveys the works of 64 major artists in terms of style, quality, and mode of representation. A brilliant contribution to the methodology or art criticism, it features 120 black-and-white illustrations of works by Botticelli, Durer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Vermeer, and others.More editions of Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.:
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0060593083 (0-06-059308-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Quicksilver: ISBN 0434008931 (0-434-00893-1)
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Reflections on Baroqueby Robert HarbisonISBN 0226316017 (0-226-31601-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on Baroque'Book summary:From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the eccentric and tumultuous forms of the Baroque spread across not only Europe but colonial Latin America and Asia as well. With Reflections on Baroque, Robert Harbison brings together discussions of aesthetics, science, mysticism, politics, religion, and culture to offer a surprising reinterpretations of the baroque style and its influences and echoes into the twentieth century.[via] 
Six Brandenburg Concertos and the Four Orchestral Suites in Full Scoreby Johann Sebastian BachISBN 0486233766 (0-486-23376-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The System Of The Worldby Neal StephensonISBN 0060750863 (0-06-075086-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The System Of The World'Book summary:'Tis done.
The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.
No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.
Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse's manufactory.
Everything that was will be changed forever ... The System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion. [via]
Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript: Or, Ten Days in the Life of Alphonse Van Worderby Jan PotockiISBN 0870529366 (0-87052-936-6)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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Throyby Jack VanceISBN 0971237514 (0-9712375-1-4)
Hardcover, Vance Integral Edition
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Turin, 1564-1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capitalby Martha D. PollakISBN 0226673421 (0-226-67342-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Two and Three Part Inventions: Fifteen Inventions and Fifteen Symphoniesby Johann S. BachISBN 0486219828 (0-486-21982-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two and Three Part Inventions: Fifteen Inventions and Fifteen Symphonies'Book summary:Reproduction, in its original size, of the 1723 manuscript which represented the composers final intentions.[via]More editions of Two and Three Part Inventions: Fifteen Inventions and Fifteen Symphonies:
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Vico : The First New Scienceby Leon Pompa, Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner, Gianbattista VicoISBN 0521387264 (0-521-38726-4)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vico : The First New Science'Book summary:This account of the basic theme of Vico's mature philosophy explores the question of whether philosophical theories can ever be more than an intellectual expression of the underlying beliefs of an age. The first complete English translation of the 1725 text, Vico's The First New Science ia now accessible to a broad, new readership. It is accompanied by a glossary, bibliography, chronology of Vico's life and expository introduction. [via]
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Well-Tempered Clavier: Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues for the Piano Book IIby Johann Sebastian BachISBN 0769212387 (0-7692-1238-7)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585-1718by Mariet WestermannISBN 0300107234 (0-300-10723-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585-1718'Book summary:The paintings covered in this appealing book by Mariet Westermann were intended to not only please, but to serve as a kind of visual catalog of the period. Whether the subject was interior or exterior, the paintings provide an almost photographic record that bring to life the physical surroundings of the Dutch people of the 17th century. In doing so, they provide insight into their hearts and souls as well. And Westermann proves to be a capable guide through the era. [via]
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La Isla Del Dia De Antesby Umberto Eco, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497593847 (84-9759-384-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Islandby Umberto EcoISBN 8426414397 (84-264-1439-7)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Island'Book summary:Tras el éxito de El nombre de la rosa y El péndulo de Foucault , Umberto Eco vuelve a la novela para contarnos la historia de Roberto de la Grive, un joven piamontés que en el verano de 1963 llega como náufrago a una nave abandonada en los Mares del Sur, y en la embarcación solo encuentra animales desconocidos y extrañas máquinas. Confinado en este exiguo espacio, Roberto nos pone al corriente de su pasado y nos lleva hasta la época renacentista para hacernos partícipes de duelos y lances amorosos, de especulaciones intelectuales entorno a los cálculos que falicitaron en aquel entonces la navegación y los artilugios que permitieron al hombre ir avanzando en el descubrimiento de tierras lejanas. Novela filosófica y a la vez de aventuras, La isla del día de antes se suma felizmente a la gran tradición de Swift y Voltaire para indagar con el poder de la imaginación los fallos y pecados de nuestra realidad. [via]
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Manuscrito Encontrado En Zaragoza/ Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Jan Potocki, Julio Caro Baroja, Jose Luis CanoISBN 8420655198 (84-206-5519-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Manuscrit Trouve a Saragosse De Jean Potockiby Jan Potocki, Rene RadrizzaniISBN 2714303145 (2-7143-0314-5)
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Le Pli: Leibniz Et Le Baroqueby Gilles DeleuzeISBN 2707311820 (2-7073-1182-0)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit
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L'Isola Del Giorno Primaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845228134 (88-452-2813-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Die Abenteuer in Der Sierra Morena, Oder, Die Handschriften Von Saragossa: Romanby Jan Potocki, Leszek KukulskiISBN 3251200119 (3-251-20011-9)
Hardcover, Haffmans Verlag
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