Wallace, William E.
Summary: As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI WALAvi
Summary: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli which reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVITaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Who were the artists of the Renaissance? Why do we still learn from Renaissance art? Using an inquiry-based approach, readers are introduced to the Italian Renaissance as it was experienced by five of the world's most renowned artists: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. Readers will learn about the biographies of these Renaissance artists through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709 TAYHollingsworth, Mary
Summary: "The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones--from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.1 HOLSummary: Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two sons Cesare and Juan, and his daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORKing, Ross
Summary: "The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 KINHankins, James
Summary: "Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. "Men, not walls, make a city," as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 HANMorley, Jacqueline.
Summary: Surveys the history, culture, politics, and architecture of Florence during the Italian Renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: P. Bedrick Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 945.05 MORSchomp, Virginia.
Summary: Discusses how and why the Renaissance began in Italy, the cultural and intellectual achievements of the Italian Renaissance, and the lasting effects of these achievements on Western civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Benchmark Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 945.05 SCHStrathern, Paul
Summary: "By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 STRRowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake)
Summary: Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was a man of many talents—a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar—but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari’s extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill rather than an intellectual pursuit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VASARI, GIORGIO ROWSummary: The second season of Borgia "is a cauldron of intrigue, violence, murder, lust, politics, faith, incest, betrayal and redemption, a story as compelling and enlightening as the age in which it takes place"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BORPark, Jacqueline.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of the religious persecution and papal politics of the Italian Renaissance, the story of Grazia dei Rosi, heiress to a Jewish banking dynasty and lover of a Christian lord, unfolds through her secret diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSummary: Filmed on location and divided into three sections, this program examines how civic planning was tailored to suit the varying political agendas of Republican Florence, Ducal Milan, and Ducal Florence. By taking the viewer on a detailed tour of urban plazas and buildings, including the Piazza and Palazzo della Signoria in Florence and the Castello Sforesco in Milan, the program shows how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Lev, Elizabeth.
Contents: Prologue: Christmas cannons -- The education of an Amazon -- Childhood's end -- The countess-in-waiting -- Triumphal parade to Rome -- Courtiers and conspiracies -- The Riario dynasty -- The fairest in the realm -- The birth of Athena -- The lean years -- Center stage -- The retort at Ravaldino -- The spoils of war -- Fanning the flames -- Blinded by love -- Avenging fury -- Intrigue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SFORZA, CATERINA LEVForsyth, Kate
Summary: After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl. Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1512 and still inspiring him at the time of his death. She is at the center of Renaissance life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORHales, Dianne R.
Summary: "A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. No face has ever captivated so many for so long. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. This book rests on the premise that the woman in the Mona Lisa is indeed the person identified in its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 HALO'Farrell, Maggie
Summary: "A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC O'FASummary: This beautifully photographed program, filmed on location in Italy, pays tribute to this renowned Venetian architect, famous for combining classical and modern architectural forms. Scarpa's unique ability to successfully incorporate his own designs into historical renovation projects is shown at several locations, including the 15th-century Castelvecchio in Verona and Palazzo Abatellis in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Florentia, the "flowering" city: Under the Medici family, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi turned the city into an artistic center and awakened Italian Humanism. Even today the visitor feels the unique flair when strolling through the streets, past the Duomo Santa Maria del Fiore, the Piazza della Signoria, and the treasures of the Uffizi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.F. Ullmann 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 FlorenceGili, Oberto
Summary: An insider’s tour of the most creative and inspiring rooms belonging to tastemakers—artists, interior designers, craftspeople, collectors, and aristocrats—in Italy today. Italy has been a source of inspiration for generations of artists and lovers of beauty. In this book, Italians Oberto Gili and Marella Caracciolo Chia take us around the country and into the homes of some of its most stylish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 670 GILVasari, Giorgio
Summary: 120 full-color plates and 127 black and white illustrations. An extensive biography about the Italian Renaissance artists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaux Arts Editions 1986
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 GREHollingsworth, Mary
Summary: Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential queen of France. Their influence brought about an explosion of Florentine art and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books Ltd. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HOLKlein, Stefan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010