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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.


Adams, Ann Jensen. Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 412 pp.; 73 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780521444552)

Agosti, Giovanni. Altri Quaranta Dipinti Antichi della Collezione Saibene. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 2009. 384 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth $145.00 (9788885033535)

Anderson, Barbara, and Thomas B.F. Cummins, eds. The Getty Múrua: Essays on the Making of the "Historia general del Piru," J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2009. 192 pp.; 17 color ills.; 45 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780892368945)

Ausoni, Alberto. Music in Art. Trans. Stephen Sartarelli. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 384 pp.; 400 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780892369652)

Bambach, Carmen C., Janet Cox-Rearick, and George R. Goldner. The Drawings of Bronzino. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. 336 pp.; 155 color ills.; 119 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300155129)

Banner, Lisa A. The Religious Patronage of the Duke of Lerma, 1598–1621. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009. 270 pp.; 45.00 b/w ills. Cloth $99.00 (9780754661207)

Bass, Laura R. The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 196 pp.; 50 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780271033044)

Biow, Douglas. In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 272 pp.; 20 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780804762168)

Bohn, Babette. Le "Stanze" di Guido Reni: Disegni del maestro e della scuola. Exh. cat. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2008. 190 pp.; 112 color ills.; 76 b/w ills. Paper €48.00 (9788822257772)

Bolton, Roy, ed. The Collectors: Old Master Paintings. Exh. cat. London: Sphinx Fine Art, 2009. 364 pp.; many color ills. Cloth £30.00 (9781907200038)

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)

Bray, Xavier, Alfonso Rodriguez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour, and Judy Ozone. The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700. Exh. cat. London: National Gallery Company, 2009. 224 pp.; 185 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781857094220)

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)

Brettell, Richard R., and C.D. Dickerson III. From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern. Exh. cat. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 2010. 456 pp.; 296 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300144949)

Brey, Ilaria Dagnini. The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art during World War II. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. 304 pp.; few b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9780374283094)

Bukovinská, Beket, and Lubomír Konečný, eds. München–Prag um 1600. Prague: Artefactum, 2009. 191 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper (9788086890227)

Burioni, Matteo. Die Renaissance der Architekten: Profession und Souveränität des Baukünstlers in Giorgio Vasaris Viten. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2009. 206 pp.; 32 b/w ills. Cloth €59.00 (9783786125594 )

Carr, Dawson W. El Greco to Goya: Spanish Painting. London: National Gallery, London, 2009. 72 pp.; 80 color ills. Paper $15.00 (9781857094602)

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)

Cavallo, Sandra, and Silvia Evangelisti, eds. Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 314 pp.; 27 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754656470)

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)

Cavi, Sabina de. Architecture and Royal Presence: Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592–1627). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 530 pp.; 25 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $89.99 (9781443801805)

Cole, Michael W., and Rebecca Zorach, eds. The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. 384 pp.; 1 color ills.; 96 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754652908)

Connor, James A. The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 256 pp.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth (9780230605732)

Cowart, Georgia J. The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 336 pp.; 8 color ills.; 8 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780226116389)

Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago, 2009. 168 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780300151039)

Dabbs, Julia K. Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800: An Anthology. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 504 pp.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754654315)

Davies, Glyn, and Kristin Kennedy. Medieval and Renaissance Art: People and Possessions. London: V&A Publishing, 2009. 320 pp.; 350 color ills. Cloth £40.00 (9781851775798)

de Pascale, Enrico. Death and Resurrection in Art. Trans. Anthony Shugaar. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 384 pp.; 400 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780892369478)

de Witt, David. Jan van Noordt: Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. 408 pp.; 157 color ills.; 68 b/w ills. Cloth $150.00 (9780773532755)

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)

del Campo, Álvaro Soler. The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain. Exh. cat. Washington, DC and Madrid: National Gallery of Art, State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad, and Patrimonio Nacional, 2009. 300 pp.; 160 color ills. Paper $60.00

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)

Ebert-Schifferer, Sybille. Caravaggio: Sehen-Staunen-Glauben, Der Maler und sein Werk. Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2009. 320 pp.; 166 color ills.; 29 b/w ills. Cloth €58.00 (9783406591402)

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)

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)

Filtenborg, Troels, Lars Hendrikman, Badeloch Noldus, Eva de la Fuente Pedersen, Annefloor Schlotter, and Jørgen Wadum. Jordaens: The Making of a Masterpiece. Exh. cat. Copenhagen: Statens Museum fur Kunst, 2009. 120 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper DKK 148.00 (9789792023261)

Franits, Wayne. Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 320 pp.; 100 color ills.; 230 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300143362)

Gainza, Mariá Concepción Garía, and Ricardo Fernández Gracia, eds. Cuadernos de la Cátedra Heritage and Art Navarro, Vol. 3: Presencia e Influencias Exteriores en el Arte Navarro. Pamplona: Cátedra del Patrimonio y Arte Navarro, Universidad de Navarra, 2008. 740 pp. Cloth (8480810556)

Georgievska-Shine, Aneta. Rubens and the Archaeology Myth, 1610-1620: Visual and Poetic Memory. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 242 pp.; 4 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754667711)

Gerbino, Anthony, and Stephen Johnston. Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500–1700. Exh. cat. Oxford and New Haven: Museum of the History of Science, Yale University Press, and Yale Center for British Art, 2009. 192 pp.; 120 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300150933)

Giandebiaggi, Paolo, Carlo Mambriani, and Federica Ottoni, eds. Santa Maria Del Quartiere in Parma: storia, rilievo e stabilità di una fabbrica farnesiana. Parma: STEP grafiche editrice, 2009. 255 pp.; many color ills. Cloth

Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010. 320 pp.; 260 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9781848220430)

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)

Hirschfelder, Dagmar. Tronie und Porträt in der niederländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2009. 552 pp.; 49 color ills.; 323 b/w ills. Cloth €98.00 (9783786125679)

Hornik, Heidi J. Michele Tosini and the Ghirlandaio Workshop in Cinquecento Florence. Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. 240 pp.; 10 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $55.00 (9781845191862)

Howard, Deborah, and Laura Moretti. Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 368 pp.; 20 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780300148749)

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)

Israёls, Machtelt, ed. Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece. Florence and Leiden: Villa I Tatti and Primavera Press, 2009. 624 pp.; 400 color ills.; 250 b/w ills. Cloth $120.00 (9780674035232)

Jacoby, Joachim. Die Zeichnungen von Adam Elsheimer. Ed. Städel Museum, Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Mainz, Germany: Verlag der Universitätsdruckerei H. Schmidt, 2008. 420 pp.; many color ills. Cloth €68.00 (9783935647403)

James, Susan E. The Feminine Dynamic in English Art, 1485–1603. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009. 358 pp.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754663812)

Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe: Finding Heaven. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 350 pp.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (9780521517959)

Jurdjevic, Mark. Guardians of Republicanism: The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 200 pp.; 2 b/w ills. Cloth $110.00 (9780199204489)

Kasl, Ronda, ed. Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World. Exh. cat. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009. 400 pp.; 125 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300154719)

Kharibian, Leah. The National Gallery Pocket Collection. London: National Gallery, London, 2009. 240 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $15.00 (9781857094473)

Knox, Giles. The Late Paintings of Velázquez: Theorizing Painterly Performance. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. 208 pp.; 4 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754666776)

Kopp, Édouard. Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 96 pp.; 45 color ills. Cloth $19.95 (9780892369959)

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 )

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)

Langmuir, Erika. A Closer Look: Saints. London: National Gallery Company, 2010. 96 pp.; 90 color ills. Paper $15.00 (9781857094657)

Langmuir, Erika. The National Gallery Companion Guide. London: National Gallery Company, 2008. 352 pp.; 234 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9781857093995)

Lederballe, Thomas, ed. Nicolai Abildgaard: Revolution Embodied. Exh. cat. Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2009. 300 pp.; many color ills. Cloth DKK 298.00 (9788792023353)

Llewellyn, Nigel, and Michael Snodin, eds. Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence 1620–1800. Exh. cat. London: V&A Publishing, 2009. 372 pp.; 350 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781851775583)

Luchs, Alison. Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009. 160 pp.; 62 b/w ills. Cloth (9780300156676)

Lukehart, Peter M., ed. The Accademia Seminars: The Accademia di San Luca in Rome, c. 1590–1635. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010. 430 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780300135916)

Mack, Charles R. European Art in the Columbia Museum of Art, Including the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Volume 1: The Thirteenth through the Sixteenth Century. Columbia: 2009. 304 pp.; 72 color ills.; 42 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781570038068)

Morel, Philippe. Mélissa: Magie, astres et démons dans l'art italien de la Renaissance. Paris: Éditions Hazan, 2008. 388 pp.; 8 color ills.; 119 b/w ills. Paper €39.00 (9782754101844)

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)

Panagiotakes, Nikolaos M. El Greco: The Cretan Years. Ed. Roderick Beaton; trans. John C. Davis. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. 180 pp.; 12 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Cloth £50.00 (9780754668978)

Partridge, Loren. Art of Renaissance Florence: 1400–1600. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 256 pp.; 178 color ills.; 7 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520257740)

Patterson, Angus. Fashion and Armour in Renaissance Europe: Proud Looks and Brave Attire. London: V&A Publishing, 2009. 112 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth £19.99 (9781851775811)

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 )

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)

A Sixteenth-Century Book of Trades. Intro. Theodore K. Rabb; trans. Theodore K. Rabb. Palo Alto, CA: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, Inc, 2010. 272 pp.; 115 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780930664282)

Radke, Gary M. Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture. Exh. cat. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2009. 224 pp.; 201 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300154733)

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, Catheline Pèrier-D'Ieteren, and Pascal Griener, eds. The Great Workshop: Pathways of Art in Europe, 5th–18th Centuries. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2010. 336 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $69.95 (9780801447105)

Sturgis, Alexander. A Closer Look: Faces. London: National Gallery Company, 2010. 96 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper $15.00 (9781857094640)

Thurber, T. Barton. European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art. Hanover, NH and Lebanon, NH: Hood Museum of Art and University Press of New England, 2010. 232 pp.; 190 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9781584657248)

Townsend, Eleanor. Death and Art: Europe 1200-1530. London: V&A Publishing, 2009. 96 pp.; 60 color ills. Cloth £14.99 (9781851775835)

Turner, Nicholas. Drawn to Italian Drawings: The Goldman Collection. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 336 pp.; 158 color ills.; 162 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300141047)

Varriano, John. Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 280 pp.; 75 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780520259041)

Vasari, Giorgio. The Life of Beccafumi. London: Pallas Athene, 2010. 96 pp.; many color ills. Paper $13.95 (9781843680284)

von Rosen, Valeska. Caravaggio und die Grenzen des Darstellbaren: Ambiguität, Ironie und Performativität in der Malerei um 1600. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2009. 327 pp.; 18 color ills.; 172 b/w ills. Cloth €79.80 (9783050045818)

Vouet, Simon. Simon Vouet: Les années italiennes 1613–1627. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions Hazan, 2009. 207 pp.; many color ills. Paper €30.00 (9782754103220)

Wallace, William. Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 428 pp.; 10 color ills. Cloth $30.00 (9780521111997)

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)

Mann, Richard G., Susan Frances Jones, and Judith Berg Sobre. Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection. Ed. Martha Wolff. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2008. 476 pp.; 123 color ills.; 233 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300119442)

Woodward, David, ed. The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance (2 vols.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 2272 pp.; 80 color ills.; 815 b/w ills. Cloth $400.00 (9780226907321)