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Product Description: In no other period of Western art history was the creation of copies from great masterpieces of the past as important as in late Republican Rome and throughout the Imperial Age. Certain Greek and Roman sculptures were established as canonical, their prestige so high and their acquisition so impossible that their reproductions--even on a small, portable scale--became sought-after commodities among the well-read populace of ancient Rome and modern Europe...read more
Hardcover:
9788887029611 | Bilingual edition (Fondazione Prada, November 24, 2015), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: In no other period of Western art history was the creation of copies from great masterpieces of the past as important as in late Republican Rome and throughout the Imperial Age.
Hardcover:
9780674035720 | Belknap Pr, October 25, 2010, cover price $49.95
Paperback:
9780674072275 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, May 6, 2013), cover price $29.50
Product Description: American artist Bill Viola (born 1951) is one of the most renowned video artists in the world, a major figure standing somewhat apart from others whose artistic expression is enabled by--and inseparable from--New Media technology...read more
Paperback:
9788836623570 | Bilingual edition (Silvana, April 30, 2013), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: American artist Bill Viola (born 1951) is one of the most renowned video artists in the world, a major figure standing somewhat apart from others whose artistic expression is enabled by--and inseparable from--New Media technology.
Hardcover:
9788824803441 | Slp edition (Antique Collectors Club Ltd, March 16, 2011), cover price $980.00 | About this edition: The Scuola Grande di San Rocco, considered the Sistine Chapel of Venice, houses the most acclaimed works of the city's greatest painter, Jacopo Tintoretto, as well as the masterpiece of Italian carving, the magnificent wooden choir-stalls by Francesco Pianta.
Hardcover:
9788882908584 | Slp blg edition (Franco Cosimi Panini, July 1, 2008), cover price $980.00 | About this edition: Explores the history of the palace of the Duke of Ferrare=am whgich is adorned by one of the most famous fresco cycles of Renaissance Italy.
Product Description: The birth of condensed matter physics in Italy is linked to a small number of very distinguished scientists. Mario Tosi, Professor of Physics of Matter at the Scuola Normale Superiore, is unquestionably among the leading figures, a true founder of the theoretical activity in the country and a true catalyst of novel research directions internationally...read more
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9788876421709 | Springer Verlag, July 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The birth of condensed matter physics in Italy is linked to a small number of very distinguished scientists.
Product Description: Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to our 'classical' past, starting with post-modern American skyscrapers and working his way back through our cultural history to the attitudes of the Greeks and Romans themselves...read more
Hardcover:
9780745635989 | 1 edition (Polity Pr, October 27, 2006), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity.
Paperback:
9780745635996 | 1 edition (Polity Pr, August 21, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity.
The original Getty Museum, housed in a replica of a Roman Villa on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is one of Los Angeles's most treasured landmarks. Closed for almost ten years while renovations were made to the building and the site itself was transformed into a center for the study of antiquities and conservation, the Getty Villa is now set to open late in 2005. The Getty Villa is a lively history of the Getty Museum, its renowned antiquities collections, and its growth from a small museum in a ranch house in Malibu to its first home in a building designed to replicate what we know of the Villa dei Papiri, an ancient Roman villa partially uncovered in Herculaneum. Most engagingly, this book records the ten-year adventure in reconfiguring a beautiful, but topographically challenging, site into one that could continue to accommodate the splendid Museum building and also provide for an outdoor theater, laboratories for conservation work and research, offices for staff and visiting scholars, and an education program for adults and children. This is a story of architectural imagination, geographical challenges, and legal hurdles, all of which have resulted in a truly unique and beautiful site. The story is an enlightening and rewarding one for anyone interested in architecture and in the difficulties posed by building on a grand scale in the twenty-first century. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book includes 250 reproductions of works of art, photographs of both the old and the new Getty Museum, site plans, and architectural elevations.
Hardcover:
9780892368389 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, January 28, 2006, cover price $65.00
Paperback:
9780892368419 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, January 28, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The original Getty Museum, housed in a replica of a Roman Villa on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is one of Los Angeles's most treasured landmarks.
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Paperback:
9780892365050 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, March 18, 1999, cover price $50.00
Product Description: The Tempest is Giorgione's most enigmatic painting. It is a depiction of Giorgione's own family, of the "family of man" tale from Boccaccio, or of the myth of Apollo's birth? In this remarkable study, Salvatore Settis uses the mystery of the painting to shed light on the relationship between artist, patron, work, and critic...read more
Hardcover:
9780226748931 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The Tempest by Giorgione is one of the most enigmatic paintings of the Renaissance.
Paperback:
9780226748948 | Reissue edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Tempest is Giorgione's most enigmatic painting.
Product Description: The Tempest by Giorgione is one of the most enigmatic paintings of the Renaissance. This remarkable work examines the hypotheses and arguments which have surrounded this painting over the centuries. From the sixteenth century to the present day, commentators have tried to fit the elements of The Tempest into a symbolic scheme...read more
Hardcover:
9780745604435 | Polity Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Tempest by Giorgione is one of the most enigmatic paintings of the Renaissance.
Paperback:
9780935748598 | Scala Books, July 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Marisa Bonamici, Riccardo Francovich, Renata Grifoni Cremonesi, Andreina Ricci, Leonardo Rombai
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