Category - Art
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Byzantine Art
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representation...
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What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, like...
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The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought. While the phil...
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Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as me...
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Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /An innovative study of Goya's unprecedented elaboration of the critical function of the work of art Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique probe...
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monaster...
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The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
HardcoverOriginal price $42.99Original price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon S...
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The Making of Juana of Austria: Gender, Art, and Patronage in Early Modern Iberia
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /Edited by art historian Noelia GarcÃa Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor...
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Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso's character long overlooked." --H...
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Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence's art world, he w...
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The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII"A delight-...
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Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A "brisk and entertaining" (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation t...
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts....
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Schoenberg: Why He Matters
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the futu...
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Venice: City of Pictures
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Enchanting, captivating, precious--Venice is one of the most cherished cities in the world. For centuries it was the heart of a global maritime pow...
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Botticelli Drawings
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /A landmark publication on the drawings of one of the giants of the Italian Renaissance Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445-1510) is one of the most belove...
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Victorian Animals Coloring Book for Adults: Victorian Fashion Coloring Book for Adults Animals coloring book grayscale Victorian Coloring BookA452P
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /★Victorian Animals Grayscale Coloring Book★Lovely animals in beautiful Victorian dresses and suitsThe coloring book includes A4 52 pages blank b...
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Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and images Tales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa,...
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Steampunk Fashion Coloring Book for Adults: Steampunk Coloring Book for Adults Victorian Dresses Coloring Book for adults
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /★Steampunk Fashion Coloring Book for Adults★A wonderful Coloring Book with Steampunk Fashion GirlsThe coloring book includes: 52 pages A4 black...
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Paris: A Color-Your-Own Travel Journal
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Color your way around Paris with this coloring-book-meets-travel-journal featuring 30 expertly curated sites to learn about, color, and record so y...
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Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, the occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the f...
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Baroquemania: Italian Visual Culture and the Construction of National Identity, 1898-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Itali...
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Frommer's Rome, Florence and Venice 2024
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /There is no better introduction to Italy than the classic itinerary of Rome, Florence and Venice. But it is not dummy-proof, which is why we enli...
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Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence's art world, he w...
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