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Joseph De Levis and Company: Renaissance Bronze Founders in Verona

By Charles Avery

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Hardcover:

9781781300480 | Philip Wilson Pub Ltd, October 30, 2016, cover price $65.00

Onomatopoeia: Its People and Surroundings

By Charles Avery, Robin Mackay and Gilda Williams

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Hardcover:

9789491727962 | Frame Pub, April 26, 2016, cover price $40.00

Charles Avery: Onomatopoeia/ The Port

Product Description: For over ten years, the visionary Scottish artist Charles Avery has been using drawings and sculptures to create and populate a philosophical allegory called The Islanders. In 2008, Avery published an introduction to this project, and part two is this new artist's book, which reproduces as its centerpiece Avery's huge drawing "View of the Port at Onomatopoeia...read more

By Charles Avery (other contributor)

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Hardcover:

9783865608406 | Mul edition (Walther Konig, March 31, 2011), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: For over ten years, the visionary Scottish artist Charles Avery has been using drawings and sculptures to create and populate a philosophical allegory called The Islanders.

Walking in My Mind

By Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson and Mark Manders

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Paperback:

9781853322778 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, October 31, 2009, cover price $40.00

A School of Dolphins

Product Description: There has never been an art book devoted to these beautiful and intelligent animals, although they have figured in Western iconography for more than two thousand years as religious and political symbols and as paradigms of grace. Charles Avery rectifies the oversight with an endearing book that combines charm, intellectual scholarship, and serious art history...read more

By Charles Avery

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9780500238615 | Thames & Hudson, June 23, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: There has never been an art book devoted to these beautiful and intelligent animals, although they have figured in Western iconography for more than two thousand years as religious and political symbols and as paradigms of grace.

The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos and the Art of Sculpture (1678-1741) Catalogue Raisonne

Product Description: A catalogue raisonne of the work of Francesco Bertos.

By Charles Avery

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Hardcover:

9788842215561 | Umberto Allemandi, December 30, 2008, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: A catalogue raisonne of the work of Francesco Bertos.

Distinguish'd Elephant in Western Art

Product Description: A never-before-seen compilation of facts and images of the elephant in art. Avery has taken the familiar elephant and researched its many appearances over the centuries in western art. He provides a fascinating and well-organized look at elephant lore, the fascination with these exotic animals, their arrival in the Americas, and their symbolism throughout the western world...read more

By Charles Avery

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9781932646412 | Ruder Finn Pr, January 15, 2009, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A never-before-seen compilation of facts and images of the elephant in art.

Bernini: Genius of the Baroque

By Charles Avery and Charles Finn (photographer)

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9780500286333 | Thames & Hudson, November 15, 2006, cover price $49.95

Grandpa/How High's the Air

Product Description: A series of stories put together to make you laugh and reflect on the good things in life. Many of the stories are true in nature, telling of the comical things said and done by kids and grandkids as they were growing up. There is also a mixture of fiction and some stories about the author's thoughts as he travels to and fro...read more

By Charles Avery

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9780595213580, titled "Grandpa/How High's the Air" | Writers Club Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A series of stories put together to make you laugh and reflect on the good things in life.

Studies in Italian Sculpture

Product Description: This volume contains papers written in the years following 1986 which discuss both specific examples of sculpture, such as Donatello's Madonna, or broader surveys of a particular sculptor or style. Both stone and bronze sculptures are studied, including garden sculpture and other metal artefacts, for example seals and locks...read more

By Charles Avery

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9781899828319 | David Brown Book Co, December 31, 2001, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: This volume contains papers written in the years following 1986 which discuss both specific examples of sculpture, such as Donatello's Madonna, or broader surveys of a particular sculptor or style.

Effigies and Ecstasies: Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in the Age of Bernini

By Charles Avery and Timothy Clifford

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Paperback:

9780903598835 | Natl Galleries of Scotland, September 1, 1998, cover price $50.00

Bernini: Genius of the Baroque

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By Charles Avery, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and David Finn (photographer)

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Hardcover:

9780821224656 | Bulfinch Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $85.00

David Le Marchand 1674-1726: An Ingenious Man for Carving in Ivory

Product Description: Book by Avery, Charles, Le Marchand, David

By Charles Avery, British Museum (corporate author), David Le Marchand, Leeds (England) City Art Gallery (corporate author) and National Gallery of Scotland (corporate author)

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Paperback:

9780853316862 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Book by Avery, Charles, Le Marchand, David

Donatello: An Introduction

Product Description: This concise illustrated survey of the life and work of Donatello, the greatest sculptor before Michelangelo and the most influential artist of the 15th century, provides coverage of Donatello's sculpture in different media and in different cities of Italy and discusses his importance and influence...read more

By Charles Avery

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Hardcover:

9780064303118 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1994, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This work is a short survey of the life and work of Donatello - the greatest sculptor before Michelangelo - who was the most influential individual artist of the 15th century.

Paperback:

9780064309813 | Westview Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | also contains The Collector's World of Inkwells | About this edition: This concise illustrated survey of the life and work of Donatello, the greatest sculptor before Michelangelo and the most influential artist of the 15th century, provides coverage of Donatello's sculpture in different media and in different cities of Italy and discusses his importance and influence.

The Good Church Guide: Over 1,000 of the Best Churches to Visit in Britain

Product Description: For centuries, as well as being places of worship and refuge, churches have provided permanent and reliable signposts for passing travellers and students of history. In making his selection of the 1000 churches throughout England, Scotland and Wales that he considers most worth visiting, David N...read more

By Charles Avery (illustrator) and David N. Durant

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9780091772147 | Trafalgar Square, July 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For centuries, as well as being places of worship and refuge, churches have provided permanent and reliable signposts for passing travellers and students of history.

Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture

Product Description: Giambologna (1529-1608) was the foremost sculptor of the age of Mannerism, his work recognizable by means of his seductive and strongly distinctive style, who worked in the half-century following the death of Michelangelo in 1564...read more

By Charles Avery

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Hardcover:

9780918825391 | Moyer Bell Ltd, December 1, 1987, cover price $95.00

Paperback:

9780714829531 | Reprint edition (Phaidon Inc Ltd, January 1, 1994), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Giambologna (1529-1608) was the foremost sculptor of the age of Mannerism, his work recognizable by means of his seductive and strongly distinctive style, who worked in the half-century following the death of Michelangelo in 1564.

Renaissance & Baroque Bronzes in the Frick Art Museum