The new spellbinding and enchanting story set in Renaissance Venice, from the internationally acclaimed author of Tomorrow'A glorious, exuberant summer read; Damian Dibben's …
Discover the 2023 Winner of the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award – an atmospheric and suspenseful tale of intoxicating art and dizzying ambition, forbidden love and …
Pioneering art historian Jacob Burckhardt saw the Italian Renaissance as no less than the beginning of the modern world. In this hugely influential work he argues that the …
Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of …
Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of …
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get …
At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or …
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length …
'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.''The first art historian' explores genius and madness in Leonardo and other …
