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This book on the Golden Age of Art explores the methods and materials used by the great masters from both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It focuses on the most difficult subject on earth to paint, the human face. These pages are the accumulation of knowledge gained through observation and countless visits to art museums and hundreds of books on the subject in a quest to find the secrets of successfully painting the human face in the style of the great masters. Without the benefit of any formal education in art, I have spent my last forty years on a mission to answer the question "How did they do that?" What is represented here is what I wish I could have read before I picked up my first brush.

"This book is the first comprehensive study of images of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Pâeter Bokody examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing produced in kingdoms (Sicily and Naples) and city-republics (Florence, Siena, Lucca, Bologna, and Padua). While misogynistic endorsement characterized many of these visual discourses, some urban communities condemned rape in their propaganda against tyranny. Such representations of rape often link gender and aggression to war, abduction, sodomy, prostitution, pregnancy, and suicide. Bokody also traces how the new naturalism in painting, introduced by Giotto, increased verisimilitude, but also fostered imagery that coupled eroticism and violation. Exploring images and texts that have long been overlooked, Bokody's study provides new insights at the intersection of gender, policy, and visual culture, with evident relevance to our contemporary condition"--

The book illustrates three enamel triptychs with a sacred subject, conceived as a painting but shining like jewellery, produced in Limoges in the 16th century.

This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities that was especially advanced in the urbanised territories of Italy and Flanders. For this reason, the portraits in this book are by Netherlandish and Italian painters. They are simultaneously illustrative of the emancipation of the genre from its medieval idiom, and of the responses to the matrix of patriarchy, under which society was organised. Patriarchy is an androcentric structure that places women in a paradoxical situation of legal and social disenfranchisement on the account of purported psychophysical inadequacy, whilst making them the catalysts, through arranged marriages, for the success of the spheres of power, which are controlled by men. Thus, these portraits are also a window into women¿s lives in this structure. This book is the first systematic study of their sign-system and of the feminine experience of seeing and being seen, at the intersection of disciplines that include art history, anthropology, legal history, philosophy. The surprising results suggest new interpretations of form and function in female portraiture, women¿s active role in the imaging process and the early instances of a pro-women ideology.

February, 1623.Nine months after Matthew Lock established his legend - and avenged his family - sinister forces are once again on the move.The Raven has expanded his powers, and seems hellbent on seizing Lock for his insidious ends. Meanwhile, from the shadows, the enigmatic Black Prince watches and waits, his Masks never far away.To unravel the complex mystery surrounding his family, Captain Lock enlists in a new army, loyal to Frederick, the outlaw who was once the second most powerful man in the Holy Roman Empire.But in this Thirty Years' War, trustworthy allies are difficult to find, and treacherous Rogues lurk where they are least expected.Matthew Lock must answer for his crimes.He must confront the sins of his father.He must channel the rebel within.Matchlock and the Rebel is the second instalment in a historical fiction series, brought to you by Zachary Twamley, host of When Diplomacy Fails Podcast.

The Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre (from the French language), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning representatives fromall walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. They were produced as mementos mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life.Our Museum book are a fine reproduction of a complete engraved title-page and 44 engravings in the text (complete with the 2 full-page plates "Memento mori" and the transformation portrait showing the death of Dives), all finely colored in a contemporary hand.From a XVII century edition Published by Matthäus Merian the Elder. A work preserving a visual record of the famous Basel wall-paintings depicting a Dance of Death cycle. Dating from the 15th century, they had undergone restoration in the 16th and early-17th centuries.Merian added the "Memento mori" plate as well as the famous final "puzzle" engraving which can be viewed from two directions.Our book presents all the text of the plates in English, French and Italian language.

While on his deathbed, King Henry VII knighted Thomas Overby, son of Shropshire landowner Sir Edmund Overby. By the dying King's command, Sir Thomas was immediately thrust into service, becoming Royal Standardbearer to the new King Henry VIII. However, Sir Thomas's position, which gave him anonymity even with its constant visibility, was merely a cover for his emergence as one of Henry's most trusted spies. As time goes on, Sir Thomas becomes a close confidant and envoy of the Crown and is heavily involved in the construction of Henry's favorite ship, Mary Rose. Constant proximity to Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, impacts both Sir Thomas and his wife, Lady Joan, in ways that neither of them expected before moving from their Shropshire estate to Greenwich Palace in London.

This beautifully illustrated compendium brings the Bard's timeless tales to life for a younger generation, with wit and panache. Shakespeare's plays have been beloved for so many years that his characters and words have shaped our world today. This collection has adapted these works for younger readers, introducing them iconic characters such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. Sam Newman's cleverly reworked text retains many of Shakespeare's own inimitable turns of phrase, while simplifying and clarifying the language to make stories accessible to children. The opulent full-color illustrations by award-winning illustrator Khoa Le's will delight young and old alike. Stories include: - Antony and Cleopatra - As You Like It - Comedy of Errors - Hamlet - King Lear - Love's Labour's Lost - Macbeth - The Merchant of Venice - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Much Ado About Nothing - Othello - Romeo and Juliet - The Tempest - The Winter's Tale - Twelfth Night

One of the funniest yet also the most tragic of books, Don Quixote chronicles the marvelous adventures of the self-appointed knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha.

40 unique coloring pages of woodcuts from the 16th century depicting Landsknecht soldiers and camp followers.

The Death of Shakespeare imagines how the plays and poetry attributed to William Shakespeare were written. Unlike the outpourings of contemporary biographies about Shakespeare, the novel is based mainly on fact. Since it is not customary to add footnotes or endnotes to works of fiction, the Reader's Companion tracks the chapters in The Death of Shakespeare and explains what is supported in the historical record and what is not. In essence, the Reader's Companion is an ancilla, literally "an aid." Jon Benson could say, as did Moses Hadas in the introduction to his Ancilla to Classical Reading (Columbia University Press, 1954): "Long preoccupation with a subject begets curiosity about matters essentially peripheral or even irrelevant to its main issues, and I have thought that others interested in ancient books might enjoy such partial satisfaction of similar curiosity as I am able to offer."The Reader's Companion has two sections: the first identifies the principal sources used by the author in writing The Death of Shakespeare, and the second provides facts of note germane to the novel.

When the death of Cosimo de Medici spurs power-hungry aristocrats into action, can a young Florentine stop his birthplace from plunging into chaos? Florence, 1464. Nico Argenti is glad to be home. Returning with a Doctor of Law degree, he eagerly awaits his introduction to the guild so he can start a promising career. Surprised to be summoned to the Chancellor, he's even more shocked when the erudite official asks for his assistance in defeating a violent plot to topple the government. Recruited for his innate astuteness and reputation as a superior scholar, Nico compensates for his inexperience by going undercover to collect information. But he must rely on more than his quick wits when his proximity to shadowy villains puts him in life-threatening danger. Can the idealistic lawyer prove he's the man to save an entire city? The Laureate is the intriguing first book in the Nico Argenti historical mystery series. If you like driven characters, suspenseful plots, and accurately portrayed Italian society, then you'll love Ken Tentarelli's award-winning page-turner. Buy The Laureate to crush a Renaissance conspiracy today!