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  • The Market and the City

    Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe

    by Donatella Calabi ...
    Series series Historical Urban Studies Series
    The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an increasingly pivotal role in the culture, politics and economies of western Europe. This book takes a comparative approach to the effect such ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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  • Western Art History Guide (Mobi History)

    by MobileReference ...
    Art History GuideFEATURES:- Fully illustrated- Detailed explanations of each period. - Always have the guide available for a quick reference. - Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway. - Search for the words or phrases - Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page - Add Bookmarks - Designed for optimal navigation on electronic devices with a small screen ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twelve Caesars

    Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

    by Mary Beard ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Renaissance Architecture

    by Christy Anderson ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change. Encompassing the entire continent, Renaissance Architecture examines the rich variety of buildings that emerged during these seminal centuries of European history. Although marked by the rise of powerful individuals, both patrons and architects, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Architectural Styles

    A Visual Guide

    by Owen Hopkins ...
    Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Festival Architecture

    by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

  • Urban Society In Roman Italy

    Edited by Tim J. Cornell, Kathryn Lomas ...
    This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, these contributions explore not only questions of urban origins, interaction with the countryside and economic function, but also the social use of space within the ... Read more

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  • Baroque Art

    Power, drama, and the glory of the Counter-Reformation

    by Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl ...
    The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rubens

    by Jp. A. Calosse ...
    The eclectic art of which the Carracci family dreamed was realised by Rubens with the ease of genius. However, the problem was much more complicated for a man of the north, who wished to add to it a fusion of the Flemish and Latin spirits, of which the rather pedantic attempts of Romanism had illustrated the difficulties. He achieved it without losing anything of his overflowing personality, his ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before the Industrial Revolution

    by Carlo M. Cipolla ...
    The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe.During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the stage was set for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. An economic historian of international ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • 1000 Portraits of Genius

    by Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl ...
    According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model. However, this gallery of 1000 portraits illustrates how the genre has been transformed throughout history, and has proven itself to be much more complex than a simple imitation of reality. Beyond exhibiting the skill of the artist, the portrait must surpass the task of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Siena

    The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City

    by Jane Stevenson ...
    An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici-dominated northern Tuscan rival, with ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD