- A beautifully illustrated and comprehensive work on Italian sculpture of the mature Renaissance, 1460-1520 - Written by some of the major scholars on the subject from Italy, France, Germany, the UK - A beautifully illustrated and comprehensive work on Italian sculpture of the mature Renaissance, 1460-1520 - Written by some of the major scholars on the subject from Italy, France, Germany, the UK This exhibition, being held at the musée du Louvre in Paris, and its catalog follow those dedicated to Florentine sculpture in the early Renaissance, 1400-1460, that took place in 2013-14 (Le Printemps de la Renaissance). The period scrutinized is 1460-1520 but the geographical coordinates are widened to include Northern Italy (Venice, Milan, Pavia, Padua, Bologna) and Rome as the artistic landscape of Italy becomes more complex. Some of the great sculptors, in fact, travelled and their style and their ideas influenced pre-existing local tradition. These new artistic languages share a common characteristic: the relationship to Greco-Roman Antiquity, especially in the representation of grace and passion: the expression of pathos and the theatrical quality of religious works, the symbolic richness of profane works and finally the development of a new and refined style which will find its highest expression in Roman classicism and in the work of Michelangelo. The catalog includes the works of, among others, Donatello, Antonio Pollaiolo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Giovanfrancesco Rustici, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Guido Mazzoni, Bartolomeo Bellano, Cristoforo Solari, Tullio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, and Bambaia, Sansovino, and Michelangelo. Text in Italian.

Il Corpo e l’Anima: Da Donatello a Michelangelo Scultura Italiana del Rimascimento

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

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• Iconographic apparatus with high quality images mainly taken by Luciano Romano\n• Analysis of pieces that have never before been catalogued\n• Unpublished archival research\n• New attributions of several artworks\nThe Galleria Borghese brings together an extraordinary collection of ancient and modern sculpture within a beautifully decorated villa. This volume, dedicated to modern sculpture (Late Renaissance to Baroque to Neoclassical), marks the start of a new general catalogue of the collection. The introduction narrates the history of the collection, from its creation by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in the 17th century to its sale to the Italian Republic at the end of the 19th century. The entries are full of chronological details, new attributions, information on restorations and account for the different historical settings thanks to an accurate study of the inventory records of the villa. They include world-famous masterpieces by Algardi, Bernini and Canova among others. The sale to Napoleon of many of its Antique works of art (now in the Louvre) was key to the Borghese's commission works of ancient inspiration, the analysis of which animates the pages of another section, based on the concepts of copy and remake. The catalogue closes with a section on restoration, that gives an account of the fundamental role of 16- to 18th-century sculptors in the maintenance and transformation of the archaeological collection in relation to the villa's display requirements. Text in Italian.

Galleria Borghese. General Catalogue: I. Modern Sculpture (Italian Edition)

Smith, Josephine

Ugo Mulas and Alexander Calder. A great photographer and a great artist bound by close friendship. The visible fruit of this relationship are the hundreds of photographs of the histrionic American artist, his family, his works, and his houses in Roxbury (USA) and Sache (France) taken by Mulas: a 'family album that showed the love for his work and the joy that his friendship gave me'. The carefully selected photographs presented, edited by Melina, Ugo Mulas' daughter and a well known photographer in her own right, evidences the role of unspoken art critic played by Mulas.As Argan writes, the photographer was able to capture 'with incredible delicacy the genetic affinity between the works and their creator, and at the same time their intimate contradiction, as if the lightness of the sculptures atoned for the sculptor's heavy bulk and their capriciousness matched his kind-hearted, unpredictable character, the nature of which is expressed by the tufts of his white hair, ever tousled by a non-existent wind'.Born into a family of artists, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) showed right from his infancy an approach to the manipulation of materials that was to change the course of modern art. An outstanding inventor of wire caricatures and animals (see, for example, his famous Circus), at the start of the 1930s Calder developed into the construction of abstract sculptures in which he soon included moving pieces. These sculptures, which he called mobiles, are among the most famous artworks of the twentieth century. In them, Calder 'took matter and transformed it into an image as light as a puff of air'. Ugo Mulas (1928-1973) was one of the greatest Italian photographers of the last century. His enormous interest in the world of art is attested by the photographs he took at the various Biennali in Venice between 1954 and 1972, and by his superlative recording of the art scene in New York, which he carried out in different stages between 1964 and 1967.

Alexander Calder: Sculptures

Argan, Giulio Carlo

A vast survey focusing on the birth of the altarpiece in France and its development from the 12th century to the late gothic period (early 15th century). Text in French.

Les premiers retables (XII-début du XV siècle) Une mise en scène du sacré (French Edition)

Le Pogam, Pierre-Yves

Religious

This publication focuses on Messerschmidt's famous character heads, which rendered, with great precision, his distorted face and whose expressive intensity places them amongst the masterpieces of 18th century sculpture.

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism

Individual Artists

<ul><li>A great gift book for animal lovers</li></ul>
<ul><li>A perfect book for shops in museums, including natural history museums and zoos</li></ul>
Painter and draftsman of animals for Louis XIV, Pieter Boel (1626-1674) is now widely recognized as one of the best animal painters of the past.
This large-size book presents 40 paintings and drawings of this extraordinary observer of nature. Boel’s pieces were particularly lively because he was inspired by the living birds and mammals he was able to observe in the Versailles Menagerie, established by Louis XIV in 1664 and soon a model for all the European courts.
The studies were used as models for animals reproduced in the foreground of the famous Gobelins tapestries, which decorated several royal mansions. They are replete with details of the animals, seen from different viewpoints, and are admired for the quasi-tactile rendering of fur or feathers. The drawings included show Boel's keen eye for rendering movement.

The Menagerie of Pieter Boel: Animal Painter in the Age of Louis XIV

Paola Gallerani

This catalogue analyses a field of art history that only recently has been given renewed attention with the translation in French, English, and Italian of Julius von Schlosser's 'History of Portraiture in Wax, originally published in German a century ago.

Waxing Eloquent: Italian Portraits in Wax

Trevi, Emanuele

Guerzoni, Guido

Ricci, Giovanni

Sculpture

• A poetic story of a cat and a red fish• The original edition was the 2008 winner of the Prix Lux/ /Grafika in the children category, Quebec's award for illustrated booksThe Sea tells the story of a cat and a red fish. A hungry cat and a red fish, who doesn't want to end up as a snack... to escape, the fish has a long way to go...A fantastic pursuit that starts in a glass bowl and doesn't even stop on the Moon, giving wings to the fish and to fantasy. A silent voyage, where every stroke of the pencil evokes a sound - the air amidst the clothes hanging out in the sun, the rustling of leaves - and the eloquent glances that better than words translate the feelings of pursuant and pursued.

The Sea

Children's Books

Dubuc, Marianne

Animals

The metafictional tale of a little pig's adventurous train trip unfolds as she, her surroundings and companions are being drawn by the author.

All Aboard with Johanna!

Schärer, Kathrin

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<li>A perfect gift for all cat-loving readers</li>
<li>Illustrations are high quality and unique. A great way to learn about cat breeds (each has a short description)</li>
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 Alphacats are an elite breed: they are cats with a pedigree (well, most of them ) and painted almost hair by hair by scientific illustrator Gabriella Gallerani and here honored in alphabetical order. Beautifully rendered in full color, to each, their own letter - around which to climb, hide, stretch, play, yawn or simply show off. Thus, A for Angora, B for Bengal, C for Ceylon, D for Devon Rex - But Alphacats are also the cats that have made history - literature, movies, cartoons, music and the happiness of writers, scientists, kings and politicians. The names of over 300 "alpha" cats, with just as many witty stories and feline anecdotes, creates a repertoire of the unique and memorable characters that make each cat worthy of a name. From Boise, Hemingway's favorite, to Pulcinella, who inspired Scarlatti's Cat's fugue sonata, from Brillant, Louis XV's beautiful Angora to Socks, the Clintons' pet during their White House tenure, each letter of the alphabet has many inspiring names.

Alpha Cat

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gallerani, Paola

Pets & Animal Care

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