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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she ...Show more
Botticelli: Artist and Designer by Ana Debenedetti
34.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organisation of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable ...Show more
John Donne - In the Shadow of Religion by Andrew Hadfield
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Category: History | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne's life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions, and networks that influenced him. The book shows h ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci - Self Art and Nature by François Quiviger
39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan countryside befo ...Show more
Machiavelli - From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. "Machiavellian" can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine g ...Show more
Piero Della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
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Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity, and unparalleled subtlety to painting. In addition, Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveler, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron, and muc ...Show more
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