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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)