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Florida

Michelangelo

#arthistory #memoir #nonfiction #signed #artist #hardcover 

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West Virginia

The Life of an American Artist *Signed*

In a striking combination of words and images, American landscape artist Robert O. Caulfield reveals the compelling story of his rise from childhood abandonment and poverty to his current status as one of the nation's best-selling artists. Told with brutal honesty and humor, the story of Mr. Caulfield's relentless drive to better his life, and to succeed as an artist against seemingly insurmountable odds, is one that readers of all ages will find inspiring and moving.

Ruggles Street, the Life of an American Artist

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Timothy Brook

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.

A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China-prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's. In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.

Vermeer's Hat

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Mike Venezia

New York

Frida Kahlo

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#paperback #nonfiction #cats #childrens #nonfiction #kids #art #arthistory #literacy #reading 

New Jersey

A Collection of Cats

Ohio

A Novel

Remembering the falling out that ended her friendship with fellow student Christine, stained glass artist Juno apprehensively attends her former friend's lecture and is horrified when the woman is subsequently murdered, an occurrence that forces Juno to confront emotional truths about her own life. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 45,000 first printing.

The Drowning Tree

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#hardcover #art #coffeetablebook #america #americanart #americana #arthistory #classic #traditional #artist 

Oregon

By Arthur L. Guptill, pref. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; biographical introd. by Jack Alexander.

Norman Rockwell, Illustrator

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Georgia

Eminently a genius of his time, the brilliant Flemish Renaissance, Pieter Bruegel the Elder has enjoyed both admiration and popularity for four hundred years. He belongs, with Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh, to that select company of artists who enjoy universal esteem in our time.

World of Art Series Bruegel

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America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures

In 1870 a group of wealthy and culturally ambitious New Yorkers founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon, America's new industrial tycoons began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, laying claim to works by Vermeer, Titian, Rembrandt and others. Cynthia Saltzman recounts the fierce competition to acquire some of the greatest paintings in the world and the boom in the market. A story of beauty, aesthetics, and taste; money, trade, and power.

Old Masters, New World

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Petra Larass

Christiane Weidemann

Melanie Klier

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North Carolina

This comprehensive survey of 50 influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world.

50 Women Artists You Should Know

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#paperback #massmarket #cozy #arthistory 

Pennsylvania

Jonathan Argyll has finally done something right-he’s sold an overpriced Titian to a well-endowed museum in L.A. Not bad for an art dealer who thinks selling paintings is the most unpleasant part of his job. And never mind that the Moresby Museum is known more for tackiness than for taste. Argyll’s just anxious for the deal to be done-and he’s come to L.A. to drop off the painting and pick up the check. But it turns out there are a few devils loose in the City of Angels. Like the sneaky art dealer whom Argyll suspects of smuggling a Bernini bust out of Italy. And the museum’s imperious owner, who’s got a lot more money than sense-and is murdered right before both the smuggler and the bust disappear…

The Bernini Bust

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Meg Moss

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Getting to know the world greatest artists

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Joanna Pitman

The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

Raphael's St. George and the Dragon is the work of a genius -- an exquisitely rendered vision of heroism and innocence by one of the greatest painters of all time. Yet the painting's creation is only the beginning of its fascinating story, which spans centuries of power play and intrigue, and has made it a witness to the rise and fall of the great powers of the Western world as it seduced its owners to ever greater heights of corruption and greed. Raphael's masterpiece was commissioned by Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, the ruler of Urbino, in 1506. Raphael was only twenty-three years old, but he had already begun to acquire a reputation as a painter who was as ruthless in his pursuit of money as he was talented. The duke sent the painting to England's King Henry VII as a thank-you for naming him a knight in the Order of the Garter. The painting then mysteriously disappeared for one hundred years until King Charles I saw it hanging in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke and acquired it for a book of Holbein drawings. After Charles was beheaded in 1649, his collection was broken up and the painting made its way to the private gallery of the third-richest man in France, where it was ensconced in its own special room. Thirty years later, the philosopher Diderot was instructed by Catherine the Great of Russia to buy it for her vast collection at the Hermitage. The heroic curators of the Hermitage protected St. George and the Dragon from fire, water, and the anarchists of the Russian Revolution, until Joseph Stalin sold it in 1930 to raise cash. The secret buyer was Andrew Mellon, Treasury Secretary of the United States, who in doing so blatantly violated a U.S. sanction against doing any business with Soviet Russia. Mellon eventually founded The National Gallery in Washington, D.C., where St. George and the Dragon rests to this day. Exceptionally written and breathlessly paced, The Dragon's Trail is a microhistory that touches on the rise of the Tudors, the downfall of a Stuart, the twilight of the French aristocracy, the terrors of the Bolshevik revolution, and the depths of the Cold War -- all witnessed by one painting that inspired the best and the worst instincts in its owners.

The Dragon's Trail

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Deborah O'Brien

Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald

2002 reprint; The O'Brien Press Ltd. from Ireland. 

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Arizona

A Living Tradition

With an illustrated history of the Celts and their Art by Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald. Decorative arts in the Celtic culture are world-renowned for their beauty, intricacy and depth of meaning. Among the most famous examples are illustrated manuscripts such as The Book of Kells. This new book uses many of the ancient sources as inspiration, but brings a personal, modern interpretation to the motifs, creating new and exciting patterns and designs which will both inspire and encourage readers. PART ONE: History of Celtic Art from ancient times to today. Illustrated with photographs and drawings of wapons, manuscripts, silver and gold objects, embroidery and murals. PART TWO: New designs in lavish colour and black & white inspired by Celtic beliefs, traditions and decorative sources. Subjects covered include: infinity, love, trees, birds, fish, animals, water. Describes sources of inspiration, practical uses and symbolic significance.

Celtic Decorative Art

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Ross King

Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement.

Mad Enchantment

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Basquiat 

Frida Kahlo 

Hajo Düchting

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blane Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the First Abstract Watercolor of 1910. In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of color the rough the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colors." Kandinsky was the first to realize this and thus to influence a whole range of artists.

Kandinsky

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All of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portraits, With Excerpts from His Writings 

Vincent: A Complete Portrait

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Clare Clark

Iowa

Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries, where nothing is quite what it seems. It is home to Emmeline, a young art student; Julius, an art expert who loves paintings more than people; and Frank, a Jewish lawyer looking for a way to protect both his family and his principles as the Nazis begin their rise to power. Rachmann, a mercurial art dealer-- and newly discovered paintings by Vincent van Gogh-- will provide a scandal that turns all their lives upside down. -- adapted from jacket

In the Full Light of the Sun

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This is a First Edition book, the story of Bernini and Borromini and how their rivalry transformed Italian art and architecture. #nonfiction #art #hardcover #architechure #italian #history #arthistory #rome #homeschool #1stedition

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Bernini, Borromini, and the rivalry that transformed Rome

The genius in the design

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Malte Herwig

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Washington

Françoise Gilot on Her Life with and Without Picasso

Françoise Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions unscathed. Malte Herwig dropped by her ateliers in Paris and New York to chat with her about life, love, and art. She shared observations, her sharp sense of humor, and over ninety years of experience, much of it in the company of men who changed the world: Picasso, Matisse, and her second husband, the famous virologist Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine.

The Woman Who Says No

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John Fleming

Hugh Honour

Nikolaus Pevsner

The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture (4th Edition, 1991)

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James H. Beck

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Provides a critical analysis of the events, ideas, and individuals who influenced Michelangelo's personal and creative life, profiling the three men who had a profound impact on his art--his father Lodovico Buonarroti, Lorenzo di Medici, and Pope Julius I

Three Worlds of Michelangelo

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Michelangelo

Robert O. Caulfield; Craig Caulfield; Melissa J. Hayes (Editor)

Ruggles Street, the Life of an American Artist

Timothy Brook

Vermeer's Hat

Mike Venezia

Frida Kahlo

Maria Champion

A Collection of Cats

Carol Goodman

The Drowning Tree

Arthur L. Guptill

Norman Rockwell, Illustrator

Walter S. Gibson

World of Art Series Bruegel

Cynthia Saltzman

Old Masters, New World

Petra Larass; Christiane Weidemann; Melanie Klier

50 Women Artists You Should Know

Iain Pears

The Bernini Bust

Meg Moss

Georgia O'Keeffe

Joanna Pitman

The Dragon's Trail

Deborah O'Brien; Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald

Celtic Decorative Art

Ross King

Mad Enchantment

Leonhard Emmerling

Basquiat

Andrea Kettenmann

Frida Kahlo

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Kandinsky

Bernard Denvir

Vincent: A Complete Portrait

Clare Clark

In the Full Light of the Sun

Jake Morrissey

The genius in the design

Malte Herwig

The Woman Who Says No

John Fleming; Hugh Honour; Nikolaus Pevsner

The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture (4th Edition, 1991)

James H. Beck; Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Three Worlds of Michelangelo