Product Description: The first monograph on one of the few women Realist painters, Colleen Browning, who painted streetscapes of Harlem, and Manhattan.

This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T. Spike surveys Michelangelo's early life from birth to his early thirties, probing the thinking, artistic evolution and yearnings of a young man thoroughly convinced of his own exceptional talent. Spike explores Michelangelo's involvement in the most troubling controversies of his age, and recreates Florence and Rome with vivid sketches of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Leonardo, Julius II and Machiavelli. This is a prodigiously informative and compelling account that will fulfil the need for a major Michelangelo biography for this generation and many to come.

Product Description: Every extant work by Caravaggio is reproduced in color in this lavish newly updated volume, the long-awaited result of more than 20 years of research by a leading authority on the artist.In an engaging and informed text, John T. Spike explores in detail Caravaggio's scandalous life and provocative work...read more

Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred full-color reproductions, a sweeping overview of Western art begins with the cave paintings at Lascaux, France, and continues through ancient cultures and medieval art right up to the Modernism movement of the last century.

Product Description: Catalogo della mostra allestita a Firenze, Palazzo Panciatichi, dal 16 al 25 gennaio 2004. "La Lydia Series di Antonio Ciccone e composta da ventisei disegni a carboncino (100x70 cm), compresi quattro trittici e un ritratto in acrilico (tela su tavola) che corona il tutto...read more

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Product Description: Near Fine, just a little rubbing along the covers edges. O/ W Gift condition. Contents are tight, bright and clean, free of any internal markings or personalizations. All books to US destinations include free tracking and are securely packaged to avoid damage.

Celebrates the life and career of the twentieth century realist who expressed radical views in his 1930's cityscapes as well as creating airy landscapes of Southhampton and Maine (view table of contents)

Product Description: Reclusive, proud and obstinate, the Bolognese painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665-1747) was one of the most independent and forceful personalities in Italian art during the first decades of the eighteenth century. Crespi was a "universal painter" who worked with ease in a wide range of subject matter...read more