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Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st English-language ed.
Physical Desc
605 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shows and describes Vatican paintings in chronological order, from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, including works by Giotto, Bellini, da Vinci, Caravaggio, Poussin, Titian, and Michelangelo.
7) Raphael
Author
Series
Publisher
Scala
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
79, [1] p. : col. ill., col. ports. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel of mystery and deceit set in the Victorian art scene journeys into the underworld where forgeries are made, careers hinge on the success and failure of exhibitions, and art critics sometimes turn up murdered.
10) Michelangelo
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the Italian Renaissance artist and examines some of his paintings and sculptures.
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
English-language ed., 1st ed.
Physical Desc
496 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 44 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Illustrated collection of scholarly essays that provides commentary on both the history of Venice and the bequest of paintings it left to the world"--Provided by publisher.
12) Mantegna
Author
Series
Publisher
Scala
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
79, [1] p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. ports. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
13) A month in Siena
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
130 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he has had with works...
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