Renaissance art books

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo...  Read More >>

Art & War in the Renaissance, published to coincide with a major traveling exhibition, presents distinctive arms...  Read More >>

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders...  Read More >>

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient...  Read More >>

One of the best-known master inlayers of 16th-century Italy, the Dominican converso Fra Damiano Zambelli (Bergamo,...  Read More >>

Why did artists include prominent architectural settings in their narrative paintings? Why did they labour over...  Read More >>

This book retraces the essential early stages of Veronese's creativity in Venice, then goes on to discuss the following...  Read More >>

This highly-visual, full-color hardback provides a rich and accessible overview of art history, perfect for students...  Read More >>

Tracing the final 30 years of Michelangelo's career, this book examines how the great master used art and faith...  Read More >>

The present volume offers an extensive compendium of the late Professor David Rosand's writings on Titian through...  Read More >>

The work of the fifteenth-century Italian painter Pisanello has long proven resistent the interpretative procedures...  Read More >>

Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown...  Read More >>

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In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse,...  Read More >>

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This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came...  Read More >>

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary...  Read More >>

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary...  Read More >>

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This illustrated monograph offers new scholarship and a fascinating look into the life and work of the Renaissance...  Read More >>

For the first time, National Museums Scotland’s important collection of Renaissance jewellery from Scotland is considered...  Read More >>

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Illustrations in the now little-known genres of cosmographies and physiognomies coached early modern readers to...  Read More >>

As I sketched, I often thought of George Santayana’s words: “Great weathered works of architecture become part of...  Read More >>

In 2023, the Museo di San Francesco in Greve in Chianti (Florence) has dedicated an exhibition to the so-called...  Read More >>