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  • Pastoral’s End

    Art, Ecology, and Catastrophe in Renaissance Italy

    by James Pilgrim ...
    How early modern Italian painting addressed the ways humans shape and are shaped by their environments.In the sixteenth century, Italian artist Jacopo Bassano painted pictures of herdsmen and animals moving through dark and muddy landscapes. But he also participated in the agricultural development of the region in which he lived, producing topographical maps of local mountains and forests, ... Read more

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  • The Honest Courtesan

    Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

    by Margaret F. Rosenthal ...
    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 onesta—the 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, ... Read more

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  • The Shadow Drawing

    How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint

    by Francesca Fiorani ...
    "Insightful and beautiful. . . . A wonderful study of how Leonardo's art and science are interwoven." —Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo Da VinciA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortly after Leonardo da Vinci's death, his peers and rivals created the myth of the two Leonardos: there was Leonardo the artist and then, later in life, Leonardo the scientist. In this pathbreaking ... Read more

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  • Leonardo da Vinci

    An Untraceable Life

    by Stephen J. Campbell ...
    How our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern mythLeonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius, entrepreneur, celebrity artist, outsider. ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

    Edited by Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow ...
    Series Book 29 - Wiley Companions to Art History
    A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Sandro Botticelli

    (Grove Art Essentials)

    by Charles Dempsey ...
    Series series Grove Art Essentials Series
    Sandro Botticelli, painter and draughtsman, was one of the most esteemed painters in Italy in his lifetime, enjoying the patronage of the leading families of Florence, summoned to take part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and commended by the great diplomatic, scholarly, and artistic leaders of his time. Lauded for his superb technique as a draughtsman and colorist and for his ... Read more

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  • The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

    by Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard, Mary Laven ...
    The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD

  • Worldly Consumers

    The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy

    by Genevieve Carlton ...
    Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In Worldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private consumers during the Italian Renaissance and shows how map acquisition and display became central tools for constructing personal identity and ... Read more

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  • Boccaccio

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edited by Victoria Kirkham,, Michael Sherberg, Janet Levarie Smarr ...
    Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent.This collection of ... Read more

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  • The Endless Periphery

    Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy

    by Stephen J. Campbell ...
    While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the diversity of regions and cultures that makes up the country. In Endless Periphery, Stephen J. Campbell examines a range of iconic works in order to ... Read more

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  • Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

    Edited by Jacqueline Murray, Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject.In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and philosophy use a variety of both textual and ... Read more

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  • Play in Renaissance Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and offers an ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD