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The seven business novels translated in this collection represent a genre in Japan keizai-shosetsu that is extremely popular among Japanese businessmen their wives students and other professionals. It is aimed at students and business counterparts in the West.... Lees meer.

Understanding Art is a two-volume fully illustrated work that strives to explain and discuss four important periods in the history of western art--the Romanesque Gothic Renaissance and Baroque. It aims to create a sense of understanding recognition and appreciatio... Lees meer.

The discovery of an unknown collection of old master paintings is today a rare occurrence. This volume catalogues and illustrates more than sixty Italian French German and Netherlandish paintings of outstanding quality from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centu... Lees meer.

Collects masterpieces created by some of the most well-known Baroque artists including Paul Rubens El Greco and Jan Vermeer... Lees meer.

This book provides a comprehensive historical overview of Sienese painting from its beginnings in the mid-1200s to the Baroque period 1600 and explains how the idea of a separate Sienese school came into being. In text and colour illustrations the authors trace the... Lees meer.

This book examines visual representations of the public ministry of Christ in scenes unique to the Gospel of Luke. Scenes depicting the birth and suffering of Christ no doubt dominated the visual repertoire of medieval and renaissance artists. Nonetheless the miracles... Lees meer.

Masterpieces by Nicolas Poussin Claude Lorrain Domenichino Giambattista Tiepolo and Francesco Guardi feature in this detailed catalogue of Baroque and later paintings in the Ashmolean Museum. The collection of Italian French and Spanish works from about 1600 onwards... Lees meer.

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For almost 500 years from the late Middle Ages into the 17th century the Italian city of Siena was a thriving center of trade learning and fine art. This magnificently illustrated book is the first to celebrate Siena s influential and impressive artistic heritage.In... Lees meer.

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Seventeenth-century Genoa was a fabulously wealthy cosmopolitan city with a rich and diverse artistic tradition. Its trade links reached across Europe and Genoa s patrician bankers who came to dominate international finance decorated sumptuous palazzi and churches. In... Lees meer.

Between Renaissance and Baroque is a stunning achievement the first book to be written about the original painting commissions of the Jesuits in Rome. Offering a uniquely comprehensive and comparative analysis of the paintings and stuccoes which adorned all of the Jes... Lees meer.