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1) Titian
Author
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
48 pages illustrations, 20 color slides (in pockets), portrait 29 cm.
Language
English
2) Titian
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1980
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
170, vi pages, xxxii leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
3) Titian
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life and work of the sixteenth-century Italian artist Titian Vecellio, who is best known for his realistic oil portraits.
4) Titian
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
308 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the secret symbols and meaning behind 62 featured paintings in this unique volume. Ranging from Giotto's 14th-century painting of the Last Judgment to the 19th-century symbolist Gustave Moreau's depiction of Jupiter and Semele, each work has been selected for its own symbolic enigma. This book's innovative design pairs each painting with a page of die-cut windows that help the reader focus on specific aspects of each painting and features...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 360 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...
Author
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
The Metamorphoses, by Ovid, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents thirteen artists from various periods and styles--from Hieronymus Bosch and Titian to Paul Cezanne, Georgia O'Keefe, and Jean-Michel Basquiat--arranged chronologically with biographical details and comparisons to other painters.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Who were the artists of the Renaissance? Why do we still learn from Renaissance art? Using an inquiry-based approach, readers are introduced to the Italian Renaissance as it was experienced by five of the world's most renowned artists: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. Readers will learn about the biographies of these Renaissance artists through the perspective of three to four major works of art that not only...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
By profiling some of the most celebrated personalities of European history, including Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Petrarch, Vivaldi and Casanova, this vibrant history of the Republic of Venice reveals how it became the first great economic, cultural and naval power of the modern Western world.
Author
Publisher
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
1200L
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Journey from the Ice Age to the Digital Age with a surprising cast of characters on this worldwide tour of color in art. Discover the strange, intriguing, and humorous stories of your favorite colors, the science behind them, and how they forever changed the courses of art and history. Were it not for Cleopatra, for instance, purple might not have become the royal color of the Western world. Without Napoleon, the black graphite pencil might never...
15) The odd job
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One of Boston's landmark museums is shaken by a savage murder When the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries, there was no one to turn to but Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohnthe savviest art detectives of the Boston upper crust. Nabbing the crooks was easy, but finding the missing paintings has proven trickier. Years later, the collection's prized Titian...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xiii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pliny's Natural History (AD 77-79) served as an indispensable guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. Bearing the imprimatur of antiquity, the Natural History gave permission to do art on a grand scale, to value it, and to see it as an incomparable source of prestige and pleasure. In Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Sarah Blake McHam surveys Pliny's influence, from Petrarch,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
293 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting. Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the materials of painting remained remarkably unchanged, but innovations in their use flourished. Technical discoveries facilitated new visual effects, political conditions prompted innovations, and economic changes shaped artists' strategies, especially as trade became global. Marcia...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 300 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, color portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color--we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven main colors--black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green--and uncovers behind each...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Starting in the 1490s, Italy passed through a phase of religious conflict, one that anticipated and ran parallel to the Reformations of northern Europe. A season of controversy put religious images newly under scrutiny, provoking radical investigations into their modes and traditions. Could they reliably convey sacred truth and power, and if so, how? Was the artist a transmitter or an interpreter, or both? Did Christian art have its own logic and...
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