20 Years: Dolce & Gabbana |
 Sarah Mower
ISBN: 8874392486
Dolce&Gabbana have defined contemporary style, infusing it with a strong Mediterranean identity. Their creations are sensual and unique, based on impeccable tailoring and the utmost respect for quality and detail, and are adored by Hollywood icons...(read more) |
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Andrea Mantegna: And the Italian Renaissance |
 Joseph Mance
ISBN: 1859950124
Mantegna was born in 1431. He was trained in painting at the Padua School where Donatello and Paolo Uccello had previously attended. Even at a young age commissions for Andrea's work flooded in, for example the frescoes of the Ovetari Chapel of Padua....(read more) |
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Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan |
 Evelyn S. Welch
ISBN: 0300063512
Milan was one of the largest and most important cities in Renaissance Italy. This study explores the city itself, showing how the allegiances of the town hall and the parish related to those of the servants and aristocrats who frequented the Visconti...(read more) |
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Art in Renaissance Italy |
 John T. Paolettii, Gary M. Radke
ISBN: 1856694399
With a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures. It covers Rome and Florence, Venice and the Veneto, Assisi,...(read more) |
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Bernardino Luini |
 George Williamson
ISBN: 1417970456
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Bernardino Luini and Renaissance Painting in Lombardy: The Frescoes of San Maurizio Al Monastero Maggiore in Milan |
 Maria Teresa Fiorio, Sandrina Bandera
ISBN: 8881187361
This scholarly volume illustrates the largest surviving fresco cycle of Renaissance Milan painted by Bernardino Luini. He was a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci and a leading figure in 16th-century northern Italian art....(read more) |
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Boccioni's Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris |
 Laura Mattioli Rossi, Emily Braun
ISBN: 0892073039
Umberto Boccioni was one of the most versatile and impassioned of the Futurists - the literary, political and artist movement that flourished in Italy during the first half of the 20th century. This text charts and assesses in colour illustrations and...(read more) |
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Brera Gallery: The Official Guide |
 Luisa Arrigoni, Emanuela Daffra, Pietro C. Marani
ISBN: 8836514065
This official guide to the Brera Gallery in Milan combines technical data about each artwork with a guidebook leading the reader room by room through the riches of the gallery's permanent collections. |
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Italian Cinema |
 Mary P. Wood
ISBN: 1845201620
Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas. Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient history to the mafia, the family, the Risorgimento,...(read more) |
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Italian Opera (National Traditions of Opera S.) |
 David R. B. Kimbell
ISBN: 0521466431
Italy was the birthplace of opera. In this authoritative and accessible account of Italian opera, David Kimbell introduces the composers and dramatists, the singers and audiences who, over three hundred years, have created not only a national tradition...(read more) |
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Leonardo DA Vinci on the Human Body: The Anatomical, the Physiological and Embryological Drawings of Leonardo DA Vinci |
 Charles O'Malley
ISBN: 0517381052
An impressive collection of the works of the noted Renaissance artist and inventor presents his amazingly detailed anatomical, physiological, and embryological...(read more) |
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Leonardo Da Vinci The Last Supper: A Cosmic Drama and an Act of Redemption |
 Michael Ladwein
ISBN: 1902636759
Numerous great works have been created within the realm of Christian art, but none has received as much acclaim as Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper". Art lovers venerate it for its composition and noble aesthetics, while for Christians it...(read more) |
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Leonardo's Machines: Da Vinci's Inventions Revealed |
 Domenico Laurenza
ISBN: 0715324446
Combining the original coded notebooks and modern computer imaging, over 30 of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions are pieced together in this work, in never-before-seen, mechanically accurate, computer generated artworks. Annotated diagrams show each...(read more) |
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Leonardo: The Artist and the Man |
 Serge Bramly, Sian Reynolds (Translator)
ISBN: 0140231757
With the aid of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, as well as a wide variety of sources, this biography covers the full life of the great Renaissance painter and architect. It is an account of Leonardo, both as an artist and as an individual. The book...(read more) |
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Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombard Art |
 Andrea Bayer, Mina Gregori
ISBN: 0300102755
Inspired largely by Leonardo's brilliant naturalistic work for the Sforza court in Milan, Lombard artists of the late fifteenth century began to use direct observation to investigate the natural world. This heritage was of considerable importance in...(read more) |
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The Art and Craft of Gianni Versace |
 Claire Wilcox
ISBN: 1851773843
Published to accompany a major exhibition of the work of Gianni Versace at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book provides a glittering retrospective of one of the 20th century's most innovative and enigmatic designers. Always flamboyant and...(read more) |
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The Legacy of Leonardo: Painters in Lombardy, 1490-1530 |
 David Alan Brown, Giulio Bora, Maria Teresa Fiorio, Pietro C. Marani, Janice Shell
ISBN: 888118463X
An opening essay on the relationship between artistic theory and execution, one of Leonardo's great interests, is followed by a series of monographic essays on a selection of two generations of his followers and pupils. |
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The Life of Michelangelo |
 Ascanio Condivi, Alice Sedgwick Wohl (Translator)
ISBN: 0271018534
Ascanio Condivi, a young pupil of and assistant to Michelangelo, gained the trust and respect of the great artist. This is a reissued translation of Condivi's account of Michelangelo's life. The biography is based to a large extent on the artist's...(read more) |
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Women in Italian Renaissance Art |
 Paola Tinagli
ISBN: 071904054X
This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. The text is divided into five chapters with an introduction, which cover the following themes: women as protagonists of narratives in...(read more) |
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