Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISStanley, Diane.
Summary: A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MICWallace, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI WALMurdock, Catherine Gilbert
Summary: "This is the story of ... A kitten who becomes a cat. A hostage who becomes a champion. A reader who becomes a detective. An artist who becomes a thief. A soldier who becomes a builder. An inventor who leaves a mystery. A painter who changes the world. But mostly, this is a story about a boy and a girl who slip through time and history. A boy and a girl who follow that cat into an unforgettable...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MURKing, Ross
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Company 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 KINReid, Kathleen
Summary: "Rose Maning longs to wake up every morning in Florence, Italy, to a view of the Duomo and terra cotta rooftops dancing in the sunrise. So she flies across the pond with her best friend Zoey for a fun-filled house hunt. For the first time in her people-pleasing life, schoolteacher Rose uses her savings to do exactly what she wants to do: buy an apartment and pursue painting. Rose is passionate...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Köehler Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REISummary: Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist's loyalty is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SINHolub, Joan
Summary: Learn all about artists who changed history in this engaging and colorful board book perfect for creators-in-training!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD HOLRagionieri, Pina.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: High Museum of Art 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 RAGVenezia, Mike
Summary: Describes the life of the Italian Renaissance artist and examines some of his paintings and sculptures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine Artist MichelangeloUnger, Miles.
Summary: "The life of perhaps the most famous, most revolutionary artist in history, told through the stories of six of his magnificent masterpieces"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI UNGJones, Jonathan.
Summary: Recounts the Renaissance artistic competition between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the legendary "lost" masterpieces "The Battle of Anghiari" and "The Battle of Cascina" on the wall of the Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 JonesCoughlan, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time, inc. 1966
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 COUMurdock, Catherine Gilbert
Summary: Using a mysterious wardrobe that allows them to travel through time, two eleven-year-olds, Federico a boy from the Italian Renaissance and Bee a girl from present-day New Jersey, work together to prevent the bickering between two great artists from changing the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MURMichelangelo Buonarroti
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 851.2 MICCopplestone, Trewin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.45 COPMilande, Véronique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 1996