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Albrecht Dürer - Art and Autobiography by David Ekserdjian
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An exploration of the life and works of German artist Albrecht Dürer and his self-obsession. The Italian Renaissance birthed the modern sense of self, and no artist from the period compares with Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) in terms of the almost obsessive interest he displayed in his own life. Dürer's wo ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D Garrard
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relati ...Show more
Blaise Pascal - Miracles and Reason by Mary Ann Caws; Tom Conley (Preface by)
Category: History | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Few people have had as many influences on as many different fields as true Renaissance man Blaise Pascal. At once a mathematician, philosopher, theologian, physicist, and engineer, Pascal's discoveries, experiments, and theories helped usher in a modern world of scientific thought and methodology. In th ...Show more
Botticelli: Artist and Designer by Ana Debenedetti
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organisation of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable ...Show more
Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity by Troy Thomas
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Now in paperback, an accessible and beautifully illustrated account of Caravaggio as a catalyst for modernity. Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would develop a radically new kind of psychologically expressive, realistic art and, in the sixteenth and ...Show more
Descartes - The Renewal of Philosophy by Steven Nadler
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A critical biography of René Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called the father of modern philosophy, René Descartes set the intellectual agenda for seventeenth-century philosophy, mathematics, natural science, and beyond. In this critical bi ...Show more
Filippino Lippi: An Abundance of Invention by Jonathan K. Nelson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The first monograph in a generation, and the first study in English in over 70 years of Renaissance master-artist Filippino Lippi. Offering particular insight into Filippino Lippi’s artistic problem-solving, an innovative look at the Renaissance master. The first monograph in a generation, and the first ...Show more
Giorgione's Ambiguity by Tom Nichols
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twenty-five works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as The Three Philosophers and The Tempest r ...Show more
Hans Holbein by Nuechterlein, Jeanne
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life, and the effects of new scientific discoveries. Most people have encount ...Show more
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy by Niccolò Guicciardini
Category: Biography | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
John Donne - In the Shadow of Religion by Andrew Hadfield
Category: Biography | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne's life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions, and networks that influenced him. The book shows h ...Show more