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Advanced Korean by Ross King; Jaehoon Yeon; Chungsook Kim
Category: Travel
Advanced Korean offers a complete, systematic, and streamlined third-year course in Korean. It is ideal for university students and adult learners with plentiful reading texts and written exercises, all in Korean Hangul. Concise Korean grammar notes in English, extensive glossaries, and an answer key m ...Show more
Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary by Ross King
Category: Art and Design
From how to look at works by great masters to explaining key movements, styles, and techniques, this monumental book is the quintessential visual guide to more than 2,500 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures.DK
BRUNELLESHI'S DOME HOW A RENAISSANCE GENIUS REINVENTED ARCHITECTURE by KING ROSS
Category: Architecture
An Independent Bestseller By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man-even by the generous standards according to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. He also designed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa ...Show more
Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence by Ross King
Category: Fiction
Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter person ...Show more
Brunelleschi's Dome : The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence by Ross King
Category: Biography & Memoir
Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter person ...Show more
Elementary Korean: 2nd Edition + Free MP3 Audio CD inclulded by Ross King Ph.D
Category: Reference
This is a comprehensive and detailed introductory Korean textbook and language learning package.Korean is now the 15th most popular language taught at American universities. This new edition of Elementary Korean, the most comprehensive and detailed introductory Korean textbook available, offers beginnin ...Show more
Florence - The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King; Anja Grebe
Category: Exhibition Catalogues
The most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence -- with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches -- is now available in a practical and elegant paperback format. From the paintings on display at the Uffizi Gallery, to the Pitti Palac ...Show more
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King
Category: Art and Design
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis is the most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence ever undertaken, with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches-produced in the same manner as BD&L's The Louvre and The Vatican. Every painted work th ...Show more
Judgement of Paris by Ross King
Category: History
In 1863, the French painter, Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity. Taking the parallel careers of Meissonier and Manet, this book uses them as a lens for their times. It shows that their paintings was not just about Art, ...Show more
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
Category: Art and Design
While the Last Supper is an image familiar to everyone, the story of its execution is not. In Leonardo and the Last Supper, the best-selling author of Brunelleschi's Dome tells that extraordinary story. Milan, 1496 and forty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci has a reputation for taking on commissions and ...Show more