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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)