Shirin Neshat
 In Shirin Neshat's photographs, Persian calligraphic script is transcribed over black and white depictions of the exposed faces, hands, and feet of Iranian women. In her video works, swarms of women in black hijabs ululate, a man in a white dress shirt ... [... more]
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Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Works
This volume documents the complete works of Carlo Scarpa, one of the leadig Italian architects of the twentieth century. There are over two dozen essays by leading architects and architectural critics, including Bruno Zevi, Vincent Scully, Arata Isozaki, ... [... more]
$39.95
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The Lives of the Artists Volume 1
These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential ... [... more]
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On Painting (Penguin Classics)
Fundamental Insights on Art and Craftsmanship Alberti is one of the more readable of the 'classic' authors on Art, much less prone to gossip than Vasari and less convoluted than Cennini. That said, some of the text on geometry in book one can be a bit ... [... more]
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The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics)
The Book of the Courtier (1528) is a series of fictional conversations by courtiers of the Duke of Urbino that takes place in 1507, while Castiglione was himself attaché to the Duke. Today the Book remains the most reliable and illuminating ... [... more]
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Women's Hats: Il Cappello da Donna (Bella Cosa)
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Oriental Architecture / 1: India, Indonesia, Indochina ...
A pictorial "Ferrari" of history of architecture books A part of the series History of World Architecture originally published by Electa in Italian in 1971-7 under a general editorship of Pier Luigi Nervi, it was translated to English and ... [... more]
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Collezionisti e quadrerie nella Bologna del Seicento: ...
In this Italian language volume, seventy-seven previously unpublished inventories collected from the Archivio de Stato in Bologna demonstrate the trends in taste and patronage in Bologna from the 1640s to the early eighteenth century, while a detailed ... [... more]
$100.00
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Josef Sudek: Poet Of Prague (Aperture Monograph)
In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Josef Sudek, one of the masters of twentieth-century photography, created his own solitary world of shadow and light, of theme and variation. The more than one hundred images in this monograph convey the ... [... more]
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Earthly and Heavenly Journey of Simone Martini (Green ...
Recognized as one of the great living poets of Italy, and several times a candidate for the Nobel Prize, Luzi wrote this work in 1994, when he was eighty. In it the poet imagines the last voyage of the great painter from Avignon to his native Siena, in ... [... more]
$14.95
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Rome Houses (Designpocket)
Rome Houses. The streets of Rome may be filled with monuments to its imperial past but among the Renaissance palaces and Baroque basilicas, tombs and medieval bell towers, are several impressive examples of contemporary architecture and design. Packed ... [... more]
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Houses of Asia/Casas Asiaticas/Case Asiatiche (Internal ...
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