A documentation of the incredible panoply of African jewelry and body adornment, surveying every major tribal style and every material used.

Africa Adorned

Fisher, Angela

Harry N. Abrams

African Warriors

Thomasin Magor

Giants

Literature & Fiction

Teale, Sarah

Mythology & Folk Tales

Bizarre Romance (UK edition)

NIFFENEGGER,AUDREY

Literary

Hard cover book, revised edition 1,617 illustrations. Large fully illustrated comprehensive art history book. Great coffee table book or gift.

Art History

Arts & Photography

Stokstad, Marilyn

History & Criticism

For sophomore/senior survey courses of Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. Long hailed as one of the most comprehensive and richly detailed chronologies of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy from c. 1200 AD to c. 1594 AD, this text focuses on the works of art, their creators, and the circumstances affecting their creation. This revision is designed to provide students with a more streamlined approach to understanding Italian Renaissance art without losing the enthusiasm and appreciation that Hartt demonstrated for this area and which earlier editions of this book conveyed so successfully to generations of students. The text is organized first of all chronologically, with individual chapters dedicated to developments in different areas or cities, such as Florence, Tuscany, Rome, Venice, and North Italy. There is a strong emphasis on understanding the works of individual artists as examples of their specific approach and style.

History of Italian Renaissance Art

FREDERICK HARTT

This lavishly illustrated, historically grounded book draws together key traditions from West, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa to present an informative and captivating survey of the most important royal arts in sub-Saharan Africa kingdoms from 1500 to the present day. Exploring the diverse ways that African rulers have employed art and architecture to define individual and state identity, it provides an overview of the major themes in royal African art and discusses what these arts reveal about the nature of kingship.Examines political, social, religious and historical concerns, and embraces issues that have root in a wide variety of disciplines, including art history, anthropology, philosophy and folklore. Offers original and provocative visual analyses, and discusses a broad range of topics, including palace architecture, women of the court, enthronement ceremonies, royal burials, and the importance of art in diplomacy and war. Introduces the central issue of divine kingship and themes of ambiguity in royal power identity.For art historians.

The Royal Arts of Africa: The Majesty of Form

Blier, Suzanne Preston

Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth—fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the political rivalries with other states, the taste for symbols and metaphorsÑthe myriad qualities that made Venice distinct and its art unique. Carefully interweaving art-historical analysis of individual works (both famous and little-known) with rich contextual discussions, she reveals a culture of high beauty, artifice, and craftsmanship.

Art and Life in Renaissance Venice

Brown, Patricia Fortini

Form & Decoration - Innovation in the Decorative Arts 1470 - 1870

PETER THORNTON

1st Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson 2005 hardcover edition 1st print fine condition book fine dw. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

One Christmas in Washington: The Secret Meeting Between Roosevelt & Churchill That Changed the World

History

Bercuson, David

Herwig, Holger

Americas

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