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A decaying palazzo on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome makes a discovery that inspires a search for a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a revolutionary painter beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome, in and out of jail, all the while...
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"Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome, Storey tells of its creation as never before: through the eyes of Michelangelo's fiercest rival--the young, beautiful, brilliant painter of perfection, Raphael. Orphaned at age eleven, Raphael is determined to keep the deathbed promise he made to his father: become the greatest artist in history. But to be the best,...
3) Da Vinci
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Childrens Press
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c1989
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Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyses some of his paintings.
5) Michelangelo
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"Describes the life of the Italian Renaissance artist and examines some of his paintings and sculptures" -- Title page verso.
6) Caravaggio
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Caravaggio is variously labeled a uniquely gifted artist and an arrogant, rebellious, and dangerously violent murderer. But for all his wild behavior, he was a profoundly religious man. Caravaggio, the first artist to bring realism to painting, is considered by many to be the greatest Baroque painter of all. The Old and New Testaments are brought vividly to light by Caravaggio’s talent. Many of his paintings depict the grace of God as a...
7) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
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Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
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[2023]
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"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...
9) Botticelli
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Childrens Press
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c1991
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Examines the life and work of the Italian painter of the early Renaissance, describing and giving examples of his art.
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Random House
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cp2005
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Caravaggio was a master of Italian Baroque painting who rose from obscurity to fame and wealth, but whose personal demons led him to commit murder and flee Rome as a hunted man. Scholars believe that some of Caravaggio's masterpieces have been forgotten and lie hidden in some storeroom or parish church. Jonathan Harr's search for a long-lost painting known as The taking of Christ is both history and a detective story as he relates the circumstances...
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Malcolm Bull is university lecturer in fine art at the University of Oxford. His previous books include Anti-Nietzsche, The Mirror of the Gods, and Seeing Things Hidden.
How the philosophy of Giambattista Vico was influenced by eighteenth-century Neopolitan painting
Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded...
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In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as they are startling, sensual, and swan-necked. Modigliani's unique figuration corresponded to his own personal idea of beauty, but drew upon a rich variety of visual influences, including contemporary Cubism, African carvings, Cambodian sculptures, and...
15) Raphael Sanzio
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A brief biography of Raphael accompanies color reproductions and critical interpretations of many of his works.
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