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Lives of the Artists (91 Edition) by Georgio Vasari Publisher Comments These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford Paperbacks) by Michael Baxandall Publisher Comments Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II by Ilaria Brey Publisher Comments In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries—in the private sector and in the military—committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of battle. And so the Allies... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars by Steven Heller Publisher Comments A sophisticated addition to Chronicle Books' popular design library, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a unique survey of Italian commercial graphic design during a period of both creative artistic vitality and extreme political turmoil. The first... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Art in the Making Italian Painting Before 1400 by David Bomford Synopsis An examination of the techniques and materials of a group of early Italian panel drawings. The authors survey the primarily religious function of these works and the professional context in which they were painted. They also explain the construction of... (read more) Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Giotto and His Publics: Three Paradigms of Patronage (Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance) by Julian Gardner Publisher Comments This probing analysis of three works by Giotto and the patrons who commissioned them goes far beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Italian Art, 1500-1600: Sources and Documents by Robert Klein Book News Annotation Through selected sources and documents, Klein and Zerner trace the development of art history and the study of the theory of art from the scientific understanding personified by Leonardo through the development of art history and the new-found... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari Publisher Comments These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $9.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dreaming of Florence: Where to Find the Best There Is by Barbara Ohrbach Publisher Comments Fall in love with Florence with this exquisitely edited collection of recommendations. Discover the essential list of magnificent museums that should not be missedstill too many to see on one trip!and stay in irresistible hotels, from centuries-old... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Hardcover
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Lives of the Artists Volume 1 by Giorgio Vasari Publisher Comments Vasari (1511-1574) was himself a painter, but he is really remembered for these biographies which begin with Cimabue and Giotto in the late thirteenth century and trace the developments in Italian art down to the golden epoch of Leonardo, Michelangelo... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Mass Market
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Passion in Venice: The Man of Sorrows from Bellini to Tintoretto by Catherine (edt) Puglisi Publisher Comments Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York in 2011, this oversized volume (9.75x11.25") contains an introductory essay by the exhibition curators, Barcham (art history, Fashion Institute of Technology, NY) and... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Painting in Italy, 1500-1600: Third Edition (Pelican History of Art) by S. J. Freedberg Synopsis This volume has now been reissued with colour illustrations, textual revisions and an updated bibliography. Freedberg discusses individual painters and analyzes the hallmarks of their work. He traces the classical style of the High Renaissance and the... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland by Edgar Peters Bowron Publisher Comments For the past 65 years, the National Galleries of Scotland has displayed... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Arts of Tuscany: From the Etruscans to Ferragamo by Marina Belozerskaya Publisher Comments Tuscany is everyones dream—a land of picturesque landscapes, fabulous food, and above all, extraordinary masterpieces of art of every kind. Focusing on a series of Tuscan centers, from the Etruscan capitals of Cerveteri and Tarquinia to the... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A History of Italian Art in the 20th Century by Sandro Pinto Publisher Comments x0x4 Includes bibliographic references (p. 169-170) and index.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (06 Edition) by Giorgio Vasari Publisher Comments A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Titian to Tiepolo by Gilberto Algranti Publisher Comments This book is a panoramic view of the richest 300 years of Italian art: the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which saw the creation of a constellation of masterpieces of painting and sculpture that has influenced art history for generations.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
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Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals by Charles Beddington Publisher Comments View painting in 18th-century Venice began with the emergence of Luca Carlevarijs and ended with the death of Francesco Guardi in 1793, followed by Napoleons invasion and the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797. In between, a constellation of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $33.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Painters of Reality: the Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy by Andrea Bayer Publisher Comments - This book is the catalogue of an exhibition jointly organized by the Associazione Promozione Iniziative Culturali di Cremona and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and held in Cremona (February 14 to May 2, 2004) and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (May... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Art & Architecture Florence by Rolf Wirtz Publisher Comments Also known as Fiorenza, Florence in Italian is Florentia, the "flowering" city. Under the Medici family in the 15th century, such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Brunelleschi turned the city into an artistic center and awakened Italian... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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