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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardback. Condition: New. The singular Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) led a deliberately idiosyncratic life: he chose to live in squalor and ate nothing but boiled eggs, which, according to Vasari's famous biography, he cooked fifty at a time in water used to prepare his painting glue.Sarah Blake McHam delves into the social, cultural and literary backdrops of this artist's life. She shows how Piero became the favourite of sophisticated patrons, who were eager to decorate their residences with pagan Greco-Roman mythological subjects. Piero's vividly imagined portrayals led to his cornering the market on these commissions. At the same time his more orthodox, but never ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings won the admiration of leading Florentine families. This original, richly illustrated account explores the fascinating life of one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing figures.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This book is an original, cogent account of the singular Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522), providing a concise survey of his life within his social, cultural and literary backdrop. Delving into the artist's deliberately idiosyncratic life, the book shows how Piero chose to live in squalor, and eat nothing but boiled eggs, which (according to Vasari's famous Lives of the Artists) he cooked fifty at a time in his painting glue. This book shows how the artist became the favourite of sophisticated patrons, who were eager to decorate their residences with pagan Greco-Roman mythological subjects. Piero's vividly imagined portrayals led to his cornering the market on these commissions. At the same time his more orthodox, but never ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings also won the admiration of leading Florentine families. An original, accessible survey of Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condition: New. The singular Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) led a deliberately idiosyncratic life: he chose to live in squalor and ate nothing but boiled eggs, which, according to Vasari's famous biography, he cooked fifty at a time in water used to prepare his painting glue.Sarah Blake McHam delves into the social, cultural and literary backdrops of this artist's life. She shows how Piero became the favourite of sophisticated patrons, who were eager to decorate their residences with pagan Greco-Roman mythological subjects. Piero's vividly imagined portrayals led to his cornering the market on these commissions. At the same time his more orthodox, but never ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings won the admiration of leading Florentine families. This original, richly illustrated account explores the fascinating life of one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing figures.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 239 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. Renaissance Lives Series. Tight, clean copy. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "The singular Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) led a deliberately idiosyncratic life: he chose to live in squalor and ate nothing but boiled eggs, which, according to Vasari's famous biography, he cooked fifty at a time in water used to prepare his painting glue. Sarah Blake McHam delves into the social, cultural and literary backdrops of this artist's life. She shows how Piero became the favourite of sophisticated patrons, who were eager to decorate their residences with pagan Greco-Roman mythological subjects. Piero's vividly imagined portrayals led to his cornering the market on these commissions. At the same time his more orthodox, but never ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings won the admiration of leading Florentine families. This original, richly illustrated account explores the fascinating life of one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing figures." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction; Mythologies; Legendary subjects; Portraits; Altarpieces; Private devotional paintings; Piero's artistic legacy; Conclusion. Size: 8vo. Collectible.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine condition, tiny bumping on corners. 76th edition of the Artibus et Historiae journal produced by the Institute for Art Historical Research. Print run 600 copies.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -An accessible biography of the celebrated early Netherlandish painter, now in paperback. In his lifetime the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch was famous for his phantasmagoric images, and today his name is synonymous with the infernal. The creator of expansive tableaus of fantastic and hellish scenes--where any devil not dancing is too busy eating human souls--he has been as equally misunderstood by history as his paintings have. In this book, Nils Büttner draws on a wealth of historical documents--not to mention Bosch's paintings--to offer a fresh and insightful look at one of history's most peculiar artists on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death. Bosch's paintings have elicited a number of responses over the centuries. Some have tried to explain them as alchemical symbolism, others as coded messages of a secret cult, and still others have tried to psychoanalyze them. Some have placed Bosch among the Adamites, others among the Cathars, and others among the Brethren of the Free Spirit, seeing in his paintings an occult life of free love, strange rituals, mysterious drugs, and witchcraft. As Büttner shows, Bosch was--if anything--a hardworking painter, commissioned by aristocrats and courtesans, as all painters of his time were. Analyzing his life and paintings against the backdrop of contemporary Dutch culture and society, Büttner offers one of the clearest biographical sketches to date alongside beautiful reproductions of some of Bosch's most important work. The result is a smart but accessible introduction to a unique artist whose work transcends genre. 208 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -An accessible biography of the celebrated early Netherlandish painter, now in paperback. In his lifetime the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch was famous for his phantasmagoric images, and today his name is synonymous with the infernal. The creator of expansive tableaus of fantastic and hellish scenes--where any devil not dancing is too busy eating human souls--he has been as equally misunderstood by history as his paintings have. In this book, Nils Büttner draws on a wealth of historical documents--not to mention Bosch's paintings--to offer a fresh and insightful look at one of history's most peculiar artists on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death. Bosch's paintings have elicited a number of responses over the centuries. Some have tried to explain them as alchemical symbolism, others as coded messages of a secret cult, and still others have tried to psychoanalyze them. Some have placed Bosch among the Adamites, others among the Cathars, and others among the Brethren of the Free Spirit, seeing in his paintings an occult life of free love, strange rituals, mysterious drugs, and witchcraft. As Büttner shows, Bosch was--if anything--a hardworking painter, commissioned by aristocrats and courtesans, as all painters of his time were. Analyzing his life and paintings against the backdrop of contemporary Dutch culture and society, Büttner offers one of the clearest biographical sketches to date alongside beautiful reproductions of some of Bosch's most important work. The result is a smart but accessible introduction to a unique artist whose work transcends genre. 208 pp. Englisch.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. This book is a study, reference, or reading copy only. The book has some shelfwear, edge wear, corner curling, cover creasing. Some sparse highlighted passages: most pages are clean. ; Height: 11.0236 Inches, Length: 8.54329 Inches, Weight: 2.2156457331 Pounds; 304 pages.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -An accessible biography of the celebrated early Netherlandish painter, now in paperback. In his lifetime the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch was famous for his phantasmagoric images, and today his name is synonymous with the infernal. The creator of expansive tableaus of fantastic and hellish scenes--where any devil not dancing is too busy eating human souls--he has been as equally misunderstood by history as his paintings have. In this book, Nils Büttner draws on a wealth of historical documents--not to mention Bosch's paintings--to offer a fresh and insightful look at one of history's most peculiar artists on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death. Bosch's paintings have elicited a number of responses over the centuries. Some have tried to explain them as alchemical symbolism, others as coded messages of a secret cult, and still others have tried to psychoanalyze them. Some have placed Bosch among the Adamites, others among the Cathars, and others among the Brethren of the Free Spirit, seeing in his paintings an occult life of free love, strange rituals, mysterious drugs, and witchcraft. As Büttner shows, Bosch was--if anything--a hardworking painter, commissioned by aristocrats and courtesans, as all painters of his time were. Analyzing his life and paintings against the backdrop of contemporary Dutch culture and society, Büttner offers one of the clearest biographical sketches to date alongside beautiful reproductions of some of Bosch's most important work. The result is a smart but accessible introduction to a unique artist whose work transcends genre.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Light tanning to closed edges. Contents Fine.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 432 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Color Plates -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- Ch. 1 "Go, Go, Become a Saint": The Making of St. Anthony of Padua in Biography and Cult (starting p. 7) -- Ch. 2 The Redecoration's Joint Sponsorship by Church and State: The Franciscan Order and the City of Padua (starting p. 17) -- Ch. 3 History of the Chapel's Redecoration: the Relief Cycle of St. Anthony (1470-c. 1530) (starting p. 29) -- Ch. 4 History of the Relief Cycle of St. Anthony (1530s-1570s): the Advent of Tuscan Influence (starting p. 51) -- Ch. 5 The Chapel's Architecture and the Altar-Tomb (starting p. 65) -- Ch. 6 The Design of the Redecoration and Its Sources (starting p. 92) -- Ch. 7 Conclusion (starting p. 122) -- Notes (starting p. 135) -- Chronology of the Redecoration (starting p. 193) -- Document Appendix (starting p. 196) -- Bibliography (starting p. 249) -- Index (starting p. 265) -- Figures (starting p. 273) Subjects: Anthony of Padua, Saint 1195-1231 Art. Basilica di Sant'Antonio (Padua, Italy). Marble sculpture, Renaissance Italy Venice. Chapels Italy Padua. Architecture Italy Renaissance (c.1400-1600). 1 Kg.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Oversized softcover, xv + 287 pages including 26 drawings and 113 black-and-white Figures throughout; edges rubbed and corners bumped, spine creased, otherwise gently used, very clean and unmarked. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listings for for Frederick Hartt's History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (Second [2nd] Edition), and for Italian Paintings Before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection.…