Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Cesare Borgia•Raphael Sabatinis The Life of Cesare Borgia"Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; nonetheless, that cruelty united Romagna and brought it peace and stability. On careful reflection, he was more merciful than the Florentines, who, in...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
*Analyzes the Borgias' legacies and how it endured over the centuries.*Examines the legends and rumors surrounding the Borgias in an attempt to separate fact from fiction.*Includes pictures depicting the Borgias and important people and places in their lives. .*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes...
Catherine de Médicis et ses contemporaines à la Cour de France
Les Femmes de la Cour des derniers Valois Tome 2
Language: French
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Figure emblématique du XVIe siècle, Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589) est une reine souvent dépeinte comme une femme machiavélique, despotique et criminelle. Qu’en est-il vraiment ? Fût-elle heureuse ou malheureuse ? Quels fut réellement...
Basilica
The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peter?s Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two tumultuous centuries, challenge the greatest Renaissance...
Da Vinci's Ghost
Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world’s most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s most fascinating figures.
Deftly weaving together art,...
The Da Vinci Notebooks
A Dazzling Array of da Vinci's Celebrated and Inspirational Inventions, Theories, and Observations
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
“Here’s Leonardo, raw and unmediated, on art, color, anatomy, astronomy and much more**” (Los Angeles Times).**
Towering across time as the creator of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance...
Iberian Swordplay
Domingo Luis Godinho's Art of Fencing (1599)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
In 1599, during the period when the Portuguese crown was united to the crowns of Castile and Aragon, a Portuguese master-at-arms called Domingo Luis Godinho wrote a manuscript in Spanish entitled Arte de Esgrima (The Art of Fencing). Although Godinho's live is largely a mystery and his text was never...
Mona Lisa
The People and the Painting
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini,...
by Stella Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
by Craig Kallendorf
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
by Una Roman D’Elia
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian...
by Craig Kallendorf
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
The Book of the Courtesans
A Catalogue of Their Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2002
From Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author Susan Griffin comes an unprecedented, provocative look at the dazzling world of the West’s first independent women, whose lively liaisons brought them unspoken influence, wealth, and freedom.
While they charmed some of Europe’s most illustrious men honing...
Murder in the Garden of God
A True Story of Renaissance Ambition, Betrayal and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
On April 17, 1581, shots ring out in a Roman garden and a young man falls dead in an ambush. Within days, a powerful baron weds the lovely widow. Everyone knows the baron ordered the hit. But how much did the victim’s wife know? Vittoria Accoramboni, the most beautiful girl in Rome, chafed under...