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Armadaby Garrett Mattingly, Leonard H. MattinglyISBN 0395083664 (0-395-08366-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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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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Checkmateby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0446313017 (0-446-31301-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Checkmate'Book summary:The grand finale to Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, "Checkmate" finds Francis Crawford returning to France to lead an army against England. But even as the soldier-scholar succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces in both the French and English courts. "Checkmate" is a masterly evocation of the intrigue and pageantry of sixteenth-century Europe--and a triumphant conclusion to the Lymond saga. 1 map. [via]
Civilisation: A Personal Viewby Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting CorporationISBN 0563085444 (0-563-08544-4)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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Complete Plays and Poemsby J.C. Maxwell, Christopher Marlowe, E.D. PendryISBN 0460870432 (0-460-87043-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Durerby Albrecht DurerISBN 0486210979 (0-486-21097-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilta Di Dameby Fabritio Caroso, Julia Sutton, F. Marian WalkerISBN 0486286193 (0-486-28619-3)
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The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantryby Roy StrongISBN 0520058410 (0-520-05841-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry'Book summary:[via]No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.More editions of The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry:
The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Romeby Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake)ISBN 0521794412 (0-521-79441-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Damianoby R.A. MacAvoyISBN 0553253476 (0-553-25347-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Daughter of Veniceby Donna Jo NapoliISBN 0440229286 (0-440-22928-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of Venice'Book summary:Award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli whisks young readers away to glittering Renaissance Venice in this first-rate historical novel about a young woman who longs to experience the wide world beyond her cloistered window. The year is 1592, and 14-year-old Donata is a pampered member of the noble Mocenigo family. But Donata is restless. Always confined to the palazzo, she is tired of learning everything second-hand from her brothers. And she is angered by the Venetian law that states only her older sister may marry. Donata knows that the only destiny that awaits her is the convent or maiden aunt-hood, neither of which are very appealing. "The mysteries of Venice are like a rainbow--and I am soon to be shut away from them." But as part of an elaborate scheme to outwit her parents, Donata decides to disguise herself as a beggar boy. Finally, she sees the real Venice, and it is both as beautiful as she had believed and more horribly raw than she could have ever imagined. Now she has no idea how she can ever reconcile what she has learned with the life she is expected to lead.
Based on one of the first acknowledged female Venetian scholars, Daughter of Venice is so rich with historical detail and intrigue that readers will quickly feel the desperation and exhilaration of Donata's daring deception. Napoli provides an authentic taste of this complex society on the brink of change and the ancient rules that still bound its women both physically and mentally. A gorgeous, bountiful book. (Ages 10 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Defeat of the Spanish Armadaby Garrett MattinglyISBN 0395352371 (0-395-35237-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Duchess of Milanby Michael EnnisISBN 0451404289 (0-451-40428-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Elizabeth I: Collected Worksby Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth RoseISBN 0226504654 (0-226-50465-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth I: Collected Works'Book summary:This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of its kind, Elizabeth I reveals brilliance on two counts: that of the Queen, a dazzling writer and a leading intellect of the English Renaissance, and that of the editors, whose copious annotations make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to general readers as well.[via]More editions of Elizabeth I: Collected Works:
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English Sixteenth-Century Verse: An AnthologyISBN 0393302067 (0-393-30206-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800by Lawrence StoneISBN 0297771337 (0-297-77133-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Florence: A Portraitby Michael LeveyISBN 0674306589 (0-674-30658-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Fortune Is a River : Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine Historyby Roger D. MastersISBN 0452280907 (0-452-28090-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fortune Is a River : Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History'Book summary:History is sometimes made by seemingly insignificant moments that turn out to have been pivotal in hindsight--and sometimes what didn't happen proves to be as important as what did. One such moment came in the Florentine court of Cesare Borgia, when a civil servant named Niccolò Machiavelli recruited a local engineer named Leonardo da Vinci to devise a plan to change the course of the Arno River. Diverting that river, Machiavelli reasoned, would deprive Florence's enemy, the nearby city-state of Pisa, of a dependable water supply. It would also make the Arno River navigable for oceangoing vessels from the inland city of Florence, and as an added incentive, would help limit damage caused by the flood-prone Arno to the surrounding farmlands.
Machiavelli and da Vinci devised a hydrological plan for the river that was extraordinarily promising, at least on paper. The flood-prone Arno, however, made the task an impossible challenge. The pair's chances of success were further reduced by poor design, bad timing, and undisciplined workers. Their failure brought official disfavor on Machiavelli and da Vinci alike. Leonardo transferred his studio to Milan and then Rome, where he would produce remarkable work, while Machiavelli retreated from public life for a time and used his forced leisure to write The Prince. Roger Masters crafts an epic tale out of a historical footnote. Although some of his conclusions are speculative in regards to Niccolò's and Leonardo's relationship, readers will likely find his narrative persuasive and deeply informed. [via]
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Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painterby Megan HolmesISBN 0300081049 (0-300-08104-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishmanby Frances Stonor SaundersISBN 057121908X (0-571-21908-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman'Book summary:The second son of a minor Essex landowner, John Hawkwood chose to head south in 1360 after serving as a captain in the Black Prince's wars against France. He and other freebooters besieged the Pope at Avignon, and when they were paid to go to Italy, discovered that the threat of force could be very profitable indeed. Hawkwood became the most successful mercenary leader of the time - immortalised after death by Paolo Uccello's fresco in the Duomo. This is the story of an age when everything came to have a price. But above all, Hawkwood is a brilliant illumination of one of the outstanding figures of English and European history. [via]
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A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxesby Arlette Farge, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Natalie Zemon DavisISBN 067440372X (0-674-40372-X)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes'Book summary:Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.
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A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxesby Natalie Zemon Davis, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Pauline Schmitt PantelISBN 0674403673 (0-674-40367-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Homosexuality in Renaissance Englandby Alan BrayISBN 0231102895 (0-231-10289-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Homosexuality in Renaissance Englandby Lillian Faderman, Alan Bray, Larry GrossISBN 0231102887 (0-231-10288-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Veniceby Margaret F. RosenthalISBN 0226728129 (0-226-72812-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice'Book summary:The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onestathe honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position.[via]
Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her cultural social, and economic world. Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests. It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and womenand her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporariesthat makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today.
Combining the resources of biography, history, literary theory, and cultural criticism, this sophisticated interdisciplinary work presents an eloquent and often moving account of one woman's life as an act of self-creation and as a complex response to social forces and cultural conditions.
"A book . . . pleasurably redolent of Venice in the 16th-century. Rosenthal gives a vivid sense of a world of salons and coteries, of intricate networks of family and patronage, and of literary exchanges both intellectual and erotic."Helen Hackett, Times Higher Education Supplement
The Honest Courtesan is the basis for the film Dangerous Beauty (1998) directed by Marshall Herskovitz. (The film was re-titled The Honest Courtesan for release in the UK and Europe in 1999.)More editions of The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice:
The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophyby Ernst Cassirer, Mario DomandiISBN 0486414388 (0-486-41438-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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La Citta Del Soleby Tommaso Campanella, Daniel John DonnoISBN 0520040368 (0-520-04036-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Citta Del Sole'Book summary:Among Renaissance utopias, The City of the Sun is perhaps second in importance only to More's more famous work. There are striking similarities between Campanella's utopia and More's, but also striking differences which reflect both changed historical circumstances and the highly original nature of Campanella's thought. La città del sole is one of many books written by Tommaso Campanella--philosopher, scientist, astrologer, and poet--while imprisoned in Naples for his part in rebellion against the Spanish and ecclesiastical authorities who ruled his native Calabria.[via]
This first faithful and complete English translation by Daniel J. Donno is presented opposite the critically established Itaion text, with essential explanatory notes and an introductory essay. Students of Italian culture, of the history of science, and of political, philosophical, and religious thought will welcome the publication of this authoritative edition of Campanella's best-known work.More editions of La Citta Del Sole:
Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florenceby Felix GilbertISBN 0393301230 (0-393-30123-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Mapmaker's Dreamby James CowanISBN 0446673382 (0-446-67338-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The March of Foll: From Troy to Vietnamby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0394527771 (0-394-52777-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The March of Foll: From Troy to Vietnam'Book summary:In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain's George III, and the United States' persistent folly in Vietnam. The March of Folly brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today's reader. [via]
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The March of Follyby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0345308239 (0-345-30823-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600by Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521639905 (0-521-63990-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip IIby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0520203089 (0-520-20308-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II'Book summary:The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.[via]More editions of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II:
The Pagan Dream Of The Renaissanceby Joscelyn GodwinISBN 0500251193 (0-500-25119-3)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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Painting in Italy, 1500-1600by FreedbergISBN 0300055870 (0-300-05587-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum Vulgarium Fragmentaby Mark Musa, Barbara ManfrediISBN 0253213177 (0-253-21317-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Portable Danteby C. H. Grandgent, Dante Alighieri, Paolo Milano, Laurence Binyon, Dante Gabriel RossettiISBN 0670010324 (0-670-01032-4)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Reckoningby Charles NichollISBN 0226580245 (0-226-58024-5)
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Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Ageby Theodore K. RabbISBN 0465068006 (0-465-06800-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Renaissance Print: 1470-1550by David Landau, Peter W. ParshallISBN 0300068832 (0-300-06883-2)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550'Book summary:The illustrative print, and its ability, to be multiply reproduced, has long been regarded as extremely important to the history of art, yet there has been no work published on the subject for 80 years. This book covers the critical years of the development of the art of print-making between about 1470 and 1550 in both southern and northern Europe. The authors examine the topic from a variety of different angles, considering for instance the practicalities behind the production of prints, and the ways in which changes to technical methods affected the making of prints. They look at how prints were distributed to a wider audience than that available to more traditional works of art, and how this affected the content of the prints themselves. The resulting book gives a clear overview of how Renaissance prints of various sorts were made, distributed, acquired and finally used by the public, at a time when printmaking came to be adopted by well-known masters of the art. [via]
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Renaissance Rome: A Portrait of a Society 1500-1559by Peter PartnerISBN 0520039459 (0-520-03945-9)
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Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: A Portrait of a Societyby Peter PartnerISBN 0520030265 (0-520-03026-5)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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Revenger's Tragedyby TourneurISBN 0393900606 (0-393-90060-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Romolaby George Eliot, Kimberly Vanesveld Adams, Emily S. TaiISBN 0375761217 (0-375-76121-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romola'Book summary:Set in the late 15th-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Macchiavelli and the Medicis, this story reconstructs a turning-point in the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savanarola. This is a study edition. [via]
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Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Mastersby David HockneyISBN 0670030260 (0-670-03026-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters'Book summary:British painter David Hockney, well known for his cool and lovely paintings of California pools, has taken on the new role of detective. For two years Hockney seriously investigated the painting techniques of the old masters, and like any admirable sleuth, compiled substantial evidence to support his revolutionary theory. Secret Knowledge is the fruit of this labor, an exhaustive treatise in pictures revealing clues that some of the world's most famous painters, Ingres, Velázquez, Caravaggio (just to mention a few) utilized optics and lenses in creating their masterpieces. Hockney's fascination with the subject is contagious, and the book feels almost like a game with each analysis a "How'd they do that?" instead of a whodunit. While some may find the technical revelation a disappointment in terms of the idea of genius, Hockney is quick to point out that the use of optics does not diminish the immensity of artistic achievement. He reminds the reader that a tool is just a tool, and it is still the artist's hand and creative vision that produce a work of art. (296 pages, 460 illustrations, 402 in color.) --J.P. Cohen [via]
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The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivionby Leo SteinbergISBN 0226771873 (0-226-77187-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion'Book summary:Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed images underscore the crucial theological import of the Incarnation.[via]
This revised and greatly expanded edition not only adduces new visual evidence, but deepens the theological argument and engages the controversy aroused by the book's first publication.More editions of The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion:
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Spiritual and Demonic Magic : From Ficino to Campanellaby D. P. Walker, Brian CopenhaverISBN 0271020458 (0-271-02045-8)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State University Press
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Starry Messenger: A Book Depicting the Life of a Famous Scientist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Physicist, Galileo Galileiby Peter SisISBN 0374470278 (0-374-47027-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starry Messenger: A Book Depicting the Life of a Famous Scientist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Physicist, Galileo Galilei'Book summary:The story of Galileo is at once inspiring and troubling. The brilliant astronomer was a celebrated scientist who was showered with honors and patronage until his greatest discovery--that the earth circled the sun rather than the other way around--proved to be too much of a threat to prevailing orthodoxy. Peter Sis, author of the wonderful children's book Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus, tells Galileo's tale for children ages 8 and older. A brilliant and sophisticated illustrator and a sensitive storyteller, he traces Galileo's life from childhood to his final days as a prisoner of the church. (Click to see a sample spread. © 1996 by Peter Sis. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) (Ages 8 and older) [via]
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Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Starry Messenger: A Book Depicting the Life of a Famous Scientist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Physicist, Galileo Galilei: ISBN 0374470278 (0-374-47027-8)
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The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possibleby Fernand BraudelISBN 0520081145 (0-520-08114-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible'Book summary:By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.[via]More editions of The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible:
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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespeare, Alan Hughes, Brian Gibbons, A. R. BraunmullerISBN 0521673828 (0-521-67382-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titus Andronicus'Book summary:FOLGER Shakespeare Library
The world's leading centerfor Shakespeare studies
Each edition includes:
· Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
· Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
· Scene-by-scene plot summaries
· A key to famous lines and phrases
· An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Alexander Leggatt
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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- Titus Andronicus: ISBN 0563202793 (0-563-20279-3)
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Softcover, Pocket Classics - Titus Andronicus: ISBN 0415027063 (0-415-02706-3)
Softcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul - Titus Andronicus: ISBN 0415048680 (0-415-04868-0)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Titus Andronicus: ISBN 0521293723 (0-521-29372-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Titus Andronicus: ISBN 067166915X (0-671-66915-X)
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Troilus and Cressidaby William Shakespeare, Daniel SeltzerISBN 0451528476 (0-451-52847-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus and Cressida'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most notoriously difficult and cynical plays, labelled a "Problem Comedy", Troilus and Cressida has perplexed critics and theatre directors, and after Shakespeare's lifetime it was not performed again until 1907. In many ways the play's difficulty is a surprise; the story of Troilus and Cressida was a popular theme, drawn from Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's own Troilus and Criseyde, as was its classical setting, the Greek siege of Troy, led by Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Diomedes and Ulysses.
Within the walls of Troy, Prince Troilus falls madly in love with Cressida, daughter of the deserter Calchas. His love is intense and frenetic--"I am giddy, expectation whirls round me," but turns to bitter disillusion when Cressida defects to the Greek camp and flirts with Diomedes. As the war and conflict over the abduction of Helen whirls around the doomed romance, the play delights in its complex syntax and cynical images of waste, decay, corruption and mutability, summed up in Ulysses' comment that, "Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time." The play's cynical open-ended quality has frustrated many readers, but gives the play a remarkably modern, contemporary sensibility. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- Troilus and Cressida: ISBN 052137619X (0-521-37619-X)
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Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Troilus and Cressida: ISBN 0563200049 (0-563-20004-9)
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Softcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated - Troilus and Cressida: ISBN 0451522974 (0-451-52297-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Troilus and Cressida: ISBN 0671669168 (0-671-66916-8)
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Bertrand Evans, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451530632 (0-451-53063-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two Gentleman of Verona'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and unjustly neglected in the past, The Two Gentlemen of Verona has deserved its growing critical reputation over recent years. The play dramatises the entangled relations between the two gentlemen of the play's title, Valentine and Proteus. Valentine leaves Verona for Milan to seek his fortune, while Proteus stays to be near his love, Julia. Spurned by Julia, Proteus heads for Milan, where he finds himself a rival of Valentine for the hand of Silvia, the Duke's daughter. Julia then reappears, disguised in boy's clothes as Proteus' page. As in many of Shakespeare's later comedies, the lovers flee to the forest, where confusion and conflict is finally resolved, and the two gentlemen are reunited not only with their "correct" lovers, but also with each other.
The play is particularly interesting for its dramatisation of the intense friendship between Valentine and Proteus, which it often characterises as more intimate and meaningful than relations with women. Proteus complains that Julia "hast metamorphosed me" into something he cannot understand, and the play suggests that social and sexual relations between men are often more satisfying than the dangerous instability involved in wooing women. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Washington Square Pr - The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ISBN 0521095050 (0-521-09505-0)
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Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Cultureby Leonard BarkanISBN 0300089112 (0-300-08911-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenserby Edmund Spenser, William A. Oram, Einar BjorvandISBN 0300042450 (0-300-04245-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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