gillian malpass (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome's ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next. He also described ancient Roman rituals of birth, marriage, and death. Here translated into English and joined in a single volume for the first time, Palladio's guidebooks allow modern visitors to enjoy Rome exactly as their predecessors did 450 years ago. Like the originals, this new edition is pocket sized and therefore easily read on site. Enhanced with illustrations and commentary, the book also includes the first full English translation of Raphael's famous letter to Pope Leo X on the monuments of ancient Rome. lxiii, 285 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. First edition, first printing. Blue boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to jacket, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 6-Sept. 7, 2003, and travelling. Contents: Surveying genre in eighteenth-century French painting / Colin B. Bailey -- The theory of French genre painting and its European context / Barbara Gaehtgens -- "Sorti de son genre" : genre painting and boundary crossing at the end of the Ancien Re?gime / Martin Schieder -- Genre paintings in eighteenth-century collections / Thomas W. Gaehtgens -- Child's play / Katie Scott -- Exoticism and genre painting in eighteenth-century France / Marianne Roland Michel. ix, 412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. First edition, first printing. Black boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Well-illustrated and scholarly study of this important Renaissance patron. Contents: I. Introduction -- II. Artistic Education and First Commissions: The Decorative Arts -- III. Cose fuor de l'ordinario: The Secular Patronage -- IV. Alessandro and the Art of the Counter Reformation -- V. The Advisers -- VI. Conclusion. viii, 323 pages, illustrations (some colour). Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to cover edges, no annotations and binding tight. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. Rosso Fiorentino (Jacket Illustration); Gillian Malpass (Design) (illustratore). 326 pp. Over-Sized/Over Weight Book. Please note that large or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. Gillian Malpass (Design); 'Dr. Isaac Schomberg' by Thomas Hudson (Front Jacket Illustration); 'A Selection of Wigs' from M. de Garsault (Back Jacket Illustration) (illustratore). © 1993. 278 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, collectible gem! A wonderful copy and dust jacket. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Synopsis: England in the 18th century possessed a thriving portrait culture which was part of a network of visual communication that encompassed print-collecting, popular performance and figurative acts of speech. In this book, Marcia Pointon demonstrates how portraiture provided mechanisms both for constructing and accessing a national past and for controlling a present that appeared increasingly unruly. Through historical analyses of particular aspects of portrait representation - images of criminals, the fashions and rituals around the masculine culture of hair and wigs, the gendering of childhood in paintings like "Penelope Boothby" or "Pinkie" - Pointon establishes the ways in which portraiture signified 18th-century England. How "the head" was hung was determined by social rules of posture and decorum, by artistic convention and commerical practice, and literally by the ways in which patrons chose to hang in particular arrangements on walls - paintings that served ritual and symbolic as well as decorative functions.