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Renaissance/Baroque Art
All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.
Adorni, Bruno.
Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola.
Milan:
Skira,
2008.
256 pp.; 277 ills.
Cloth
€85.00
(9788861306530)
Ayers, Tim, ed.
The History of British Art, Volume 1: 600–1600.
New Haven:
Yale Center for British Art,
2009.
296 pp.; 152 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300116700)
Bass, Laura R.
The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
196 pp.; 50 color ills.; 14 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780271033044)
Bassett, Jane.
The Craftsman Revealed: Adriaen de Vries, Sculptor in Bronze.
Los Angeles:
Getty Conservation Institute,
2008.
352 pp.; 100 color ills.; 220 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780892369195)
Bayer, Andrea, ed.
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2008.
392 pp.; 300 color ills.; 75 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300124118)
Berger, Robert W., and Thomas F. Hedin.
Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008.
208 pp.; 41 ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780812241075)
Simon Vouet: Les années italiennes 1613–1627.
Exh. cat.
Paris:
Editions Hazan,
2009.
207 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
€30.00
(9782754103220)
Bindman, David, Tim Ayers, and Chris Stephens.
The History of British Art.
Ed. David Bindman.
New Haven:
Yale Center for British Art in association with Tate Britain,
2008.
800 pp.; 458 color ills.
Cloth
$150.00
(9780300143041)
Bindman, David, ed.
The History of British Art, Volume 2: 1600–1870.
New Haven:
Yale Center for British Art,
2009.
248 pp.; 149 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300116717)
Boschloo, Anton W. A.
The Limits of Artistic Freedom: Criticism of art in Italy from 1500 to 1800.
Leiden:
Primaver Pers,
2009.
400 pp.; 16 color ills.; 114 b/w ills.
Paper
€34.50
(9789059970588)
Breazeale, William, Susan Anderson, Christine Giviskos, and Christiane Andersson.
The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body.
Burlington, VT:
Lund Humphries in association with Crocker Art Museum,
2008.
168 pp.; 56 color ills.; 71 b/w ills.
Cloth
£ 35.00
(9780853319887)
Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève, and Guilhem Scherf, eds.
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from the Renaissance to Revolution.
Exh. cat.
Paris:
Somogy Éditions d’Art,
2009.
535 pp.; 536 ills.
Cloth
$69.00
(9782757201831)
Brosens, Koenraad.
European Tapestries in The Art Institute of Chicago.
Exh. cat.
Art Institute of Chicago,
2008.
416 pp.; 138 color ills.; 159 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300119602)
Brothers, Cammy.
Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2008.
272 pp.; 40 color ills.; 200 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300124897)
Brown, Jonathan.
Collected Writings on Velázquez.
Madrid:
Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica,
2008.
410 pp.; 170 color ills.
Paper
$50.00
(9780300144932)
Campbell, Caroline.
Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: The Courtauld Wedding Chests.
Exh. cat.
London:
Paul Holberton and The Courtauld Gallery,
2008.
Paper
£ 20.00
(9781903470916)
Campbell, C. Jean.
The Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of Dante.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2008.
192 pp.; 18 color ills.; 36 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780271032610 )
Cast, David.
The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
272 pp.; 16 color ills.; 28 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780271034423)
Cavazzini, Patrizia.
Painting as Business in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
256 pp.; 24 color ills.; 47 b/w ills.
Cloth
$80.00
(9780271032153)
Dacos, Nicole.
The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure.
New York:
Abbeville Press,
2008.
352 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$125.00
(9780789210043)
Davis, Charles, and Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi.
I grandi bronzi del Battistero: L’arte di Vincenzo Danti, discepolo di Michelangelo.
Exh. cat.
Florence:
Giunti,
2007.
406 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
Euros 45.00
(9788809059023)
de Jonge, Krista, and Konrad Ottenheym, eds.
Unity and Discontinuity: Architectural Relationships between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530–1700).
Turnhout:
Brepols,
2007.
436 pp.; 342 b/w ills.
Paper
$130.00
(9782503513669)
de Schryver, Antoine.
The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold: A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2008.
312 pp.; 46 color ills.; 124 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780892369430)
Decker, John R.
The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans.
Burlington, Vt.:
Ashgate,
2009.
182 pp.; 5 color ills.; 19 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754664536)
Dunlop, Anne.
Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
340 pp.; 161 color ills.; 41 b/w ills.
Cloth
$80.00
(9780271034089)
Edgerton, Samuel Y.
The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe.
Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press,
2009.
224 pp.; 105 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(9780801474804)
Falk, Kurt.
The Unknown Hieronymus Bosch.
Berkeley, CA:
Atlantic Books,
2008.
116 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9781556437595)
Falkenburg, Reindert L., Walter S. Melion, and Todd M. Richardson, eds.
Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Turnhout, Belgium:
2006.
483 pp.; 12 color ills.; 161 b/w ills.
€ 125.00
(978250352068)
Farago, Claire, ed.
Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe, 1550–1900.
Burlington, Vt.:
Ashgate,
2009.
652 pp.; 5 color ills.; 170 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754665328)
Fiorenza, Giancarlo.
Dosso Dossi: Paintings of Myth, Magic, and the Antique.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2008.
248 pp.; 36 color ills.; 61 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(9780271032047 )
Frommel, Christoph Luitpold.
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance.
New York:
Thames & Hudson,
2008.
384 pp.; 309 ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780500342206)
Furlotti, Barbara, and Guido Rebecchini.
The Art of Mantua: Power and Patronage in the Renaissance.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2008.
280 pp.; 180 color ills.
Cloth
$84.95
(9780892368402)
Giorgi, Rosa.
European Art of the Seventeenth Century.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2008.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780892369348)
Giorgi, Rosa.
The History of the Church in Art.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2008.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780892369362)
Giusti, Annamaria, and Wolfram Koeppe, eds.
Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.
Exh. cat.
New York and New Haven:
Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2008.
428 pp.; 272 color ills.; 35 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300136722)
Griffey, Erin, ed.
Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage.
Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate,
2008.
240 pp.; 37 b/w ills.
Cloth
£55.00
(9780754664208)
Gritsay, Natalya, and Natalya Babina.
17th–18th Century Flemish Painting: State Hermitage Museum Catalogue.
Trans. Catherine Phillips.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2008.
520 pp.; 400 color ills.; 200 b/w ills.
Cloth
$150.00
(9780300116861)
Hall, James.
The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art.
New York:
Oxford University Press,
2009.
304 pp.; 20 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780199230860)
Henning, Andreas, and Scott Schaefer, eds.
Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
128 pp.; 70 color ills.; 7 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780892369331)
Hess, Catherine, Andrea Bacchi, and Jennifer Montagu, eds.
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles and Ottawa:
J. Paul Getty Museum and National Gallery of Canada,
2008.
336 pp.; 155 color ills.; 114 b/w ills.
Paper
$44.95
(9780892369324)
Humphrey, Peter, ed.
Venice and the Veneto.
New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
424 pp.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$150.00
(9780521808439)
Ilchman, Frederick, ed.
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice.
Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
2009.
315 pp.; 168 color ills.
$40.00
(9780878467402)
J. Paul Getty Museum.
Looking at the Landscapes: Courbet and Modernism (Papers from a Symposium Held at the J. Paul Getty Museum on March 18, 2006).
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2006.
87 pp.; 72 color ills.; 12 b/w ills.
Kharibian, Leah.
The National Gallery Pocket Collection.
London:
National Gallery, London,
2009.
240 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$15.00
(9781857094473)
Kite, Stephen.
Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye.
Oxford:
Legenda,
2007.
235 pp.
Cloth
$89.50
(9781905981892)
Kupfer, Marcia, ed.
The Passion Story: From Visual Representation to Social Drama.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2008.
306 pp.; 16 color ills.; 71 b/w ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(9780271033075 )
La France, Robert G.
Bachiacca: Artist of the Medici Court.
Florence:
Leo S. Olschki,
2009.
462 pp.; 75 color ills.; 105 b/w ills.
Cloth
$190.00
(9788822257642 )
Labalme, Patricia H., and Laura Sanguineti White, eds.
Venice, Citá Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo.
Trans. Linda L. Carroll.
Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
640 pp.; Few b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780801887659)
Ladis, Andrew.
Giotto's O: Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
224 pp.; 92 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780271034072)
Lingo, Stuart.
Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
294 pp.; 100 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300121254)
Lopez, Jonathan.
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren.
Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2008.
352 pp.
Cloth
$26.00
(9780151013418)
MacDonald, Deanna, and Geoffrey Smith.
100 Best Paintings in New York.
Northampton, MA:
Interlink Publishing,
2008.
256 pp.; Many color ills.
Paper
$22.00
(9781566566964)
Merz, Jörg M.
Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2008.
376 pp.; 20 color ills.; 220 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780300111231)
Mochizuki, Mia M.
The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566–1672: Material Religion in the Dutch Golden Age.
Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate,
2008.
424 pp.; 158 color ills.; 61 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754661047)
Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie.
Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
346 pp.; 120 color ills.; 80 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300095630)
National Gallery, Lorne Campbell, Miguel Falomir, Jennifer Fletcher, and Luke Syson.
Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian.
Exh. cat.
London:
National Gallery, London,
2008.
304 pp.
Cloth
$70.00
(9781857094114)
Nelson, Jonathan K., and Richard J. Zeckhauser.
The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art.
Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
2008.
256 pp.; 51 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.50
(9780691125411)
Nuñez, César Guillén.
Macao's Church of Saint Paul: A Glimmer of the Baroque in China.
Hong Kong:
Hong Kong University Press,
2009.
196 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills.
Cloth
$59.50
(9789622099227)
Penny, Nicholas.
National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume II: Venice 1540-1600.
London:
National Gallery,
2008.
544 pp.; 235 color ills.; 20 b/w ills.
Cloth
$150.00
(9781857099133)
Perlove, Shelley, and Larry Silver.
Rembrandt's Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
47 color ills.; 198 b/w ills.
Cloth
$100.00
(9780271034065 )
Pierce, Helen.
Unseemly Pictures: Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England.
New Haven:
Yale University Press and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,
2009.
248 pp.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780300142549)
Pinson, Yona.
The Fools' Journey: A Myth of Obsession in Northern Renaissance Art.
Turnhout, Belgium and Turnhout, Belgium:
Brepols Publishers,
2009.
226 pp.; 8 color ills.; 152 b/w ills.
Paper
€105.00
(9782503526126)
Prosperetti, Leopoldine.
Landscape and Philosophy in the Art of Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625).
Surrey, UK:
Ashgate,
2009.
294 pp.; 12 color ills.; 57 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754660903)
Ragionieri, Pina.
Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth.
Syracuse and Philadelphia:
Syracuse University Art Galleries in association with University of Pennsylvania Press,
2007.
120 pp.; 26 color ills.; 69 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780812241488)
Recht, Roland.
Believing and Seeing: The Art of Gothic Cathedrals.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
392 pp.; 85 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780226706061)
Saltzman, Cynthia.
Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures.
New York:
Viking,
2008.
339 pp.; 15 color ills.; Few b/w ills.
Cloth
$27.95
(978067018314)
Schlimme, Hermann, ed.
Practice and Science in Early Modern Italian Building: Towards an Epistemic History of Architecture.
Milan:
Electa,
2005.
314 pp.; 36 color ills.; 300 b/w ills.
Cloth
€75.00
(8837042361)
Schoell-Glass, Charlotte.
Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism: Political Perspectives on Images and Culture.
Trans. Samuel Pakucs Willcocks.
Detroit:
Wayne State University Press,
2008.
264 pp.; 18 b/w ills.
Cloth
$54.95
(9780814332559)
Schroth, Sarah, and Ronni Baer, eds.
El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III.
Exh. cat.
London:
Thames & Hudson,
2007.
352 pp.; 160 color ills.; 20 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780878467266)
Soler del Campo, Alvaro.
The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain.
Exh. cat.
Washington D.C.:
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
2009.
300 pp.; 160 color ills.
Paper
$60.00
Stewart, Alison G.
Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery.
Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate,
2008.
382 pp.; 4 color ills.; 101 b/w ills.
Cloth
₤ 55.00
(9780754633082)
Sureda, Joan.
The Golden Age of Spain: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture.
New York:
Vendome Press,
2008.
304 pp.; 215 color ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780865651982)
Sutton, Peter C.
Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2008.
224 pp.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780300137293)
Terpstra, Nicholas, ed.
The Art of Executing Well: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy.
Kirksville, Mo.:
Truman State University Press,
2008.
360 pp.; 22 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9781931112888)
Wüthrich, Lucas Heinrich, ed.
Matthaeus Merian d.Ä.: Briefe und Widmungen.
Hamburg:
Hoffmann und Campe,
2009.
392 pp.; 22 b/w ills.
Cloth
€98.00
(9783455500936)
Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K.
Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered.
Exh. cat.
Washington, D.C.:
National Gallery of Art, Washington in association with Yale University Press,
2008.
320 pp.; 250 color ills.; 45 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300142136)
Wilson, Michael.
If the Paintings Could Talk.
London:
National Gallery Company,
2009.
176 pp.; 168 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9781857094251)
Wood, Christopher S.
Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
416 pp.; 116 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780226905976)
Zorach, Rebecca, ed.
The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Library,
2008.
176 pp.; 100 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(0943056373)