Taylor, 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 HOLHales, 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 HALWallace, 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 WALKing, 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 KINRowland, 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 ROWLeón, Vicki.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Company 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 KINSummary: "Conceived and produced in association with the Renaissance society of America, this work presents a panoramic view of the cultural movement and the period of history beginning in Italy from approximately 1350, broadening geographically to include the rest of Europe by the middle-to-late-15th century, and ending in the early 17th century. Each of the nearly 1,200 entries provides a learned and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America 1999
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Gilder, Joshua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 GILJones, 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 JonesKlein, Stefan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DA VINCI, LEONARDO KleinLev, 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 LEVRabb, Theodore K.
Summary: The stories of fifteen men and women, some familiar, others less so, that demonstrate the profound transformations of society that cut across and remade the realms of human conduct and custom and that are a part of the era with the name meaning "rebirth."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 920.04 RABStewart, Jeffrey C.
Summary: "A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOCKE, ALAIN STEStrathern, Paul
Summary: A meticulous account of Renaissance Italy during the turbulent decade around 1500, with emphasis on several important players: Alexander Borgia (also known as Pope Alexander VI) and his son Cesare, Machiavelli the philosopher-diplomat and author of The Prince, and Leonardo da Vinci--inventor, artist, and military engineer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.06 STRVenezia, Mike
Summary: Describes the life of the Italian Renaissance artist and examines some of his paintings and sculptures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine Artist MichelangeloReynolds, David S.
Summary: America experienced unprecedented expansion and turmoil in the years between 1815 and 1848. Historian David S. Reynolds illuminates the period's political story as well as the social and cultural movements that influenced it. He casts fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy Adams and James K. Polk, who expanded the nation's territory and strengthened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 REYKalman, Maira.
Summary: "Sheds light on the fascinating life and interests of the Renaissance man who was our third president"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JEFKrensky, Stephen
Summary: Discover the inspiring story of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, inventor, and engineer of the Italian Renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020