Explores the interplay between art and cuisine during the Italian Renaissance. This book considers the many, often surprising, ways that cooks and artists converged and drew from each other's worlds. It also considers the significance of culinary images in Renaissance art.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior art form ('of lesser genius than painting').

Finally in paperback - the award-winning collection of Leonardo's exquisite notebooks, featuring over 1000 of his original sketches chosen from more than 7000 pages of his writings and drawings found in rare archive sources.

National Gallery Guides.

Leonardo never lost his awe of the wonders of natural design and this ground-breaking book communicates a comparable sense of wonder through the continued grandeur and freshness of Leonardo's incomparable vision. This title presents a study that illuminates the fundamental aspect of Leonardo's work - how he thought visually.

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before ...

The history of northern Renaissance art, from the late 14th to the early 16th century, drawing on a rich range of sources to show how northern European art dominated the visual culture of Europe in this formative period

During the sixteenth-century, Venice was the setting for some of the most admired churches in the whole western canon. This title focuses on the direct relationship between architectural design and sacred music in Renaissance Venice.

The Italian Renaissance is a pivotal episode in the history of Western culture. This book discusses a range of works from across Italy, examines the issues of materials, workshop practices and artist-patron relationships, and explores the ways in which visual imagery related to contemporary sexual, social and political behaviour.

Takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence. This title focuses on Renaissance Florence's celebrated art and culture by examining the city's architectural and artistic achievements in their political, intellectual, and religious contexts. It explores how the Florentine culture formally registers in specific works of art.

Takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence. This title focuses on Renaissance Florence's celebrated art and culture by examining the city's architectural and artistic achievements in their political, intellectual, and religious contexts. It explores how the Florentine culture formally registers in specific works of art.

This opulent celebration of the life and art of the Renaissance genius presents Sandro Botticelli's complete paintings and offers a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date study of his work.

Presents an analysis of the materials and techniques used on thirty eight of the V&A's Renaissance frames. This book teaches the reader to recognise frame style, structure and surface decoration of the period, as well as additions and alterations and later frames in the style. It is illustrated with 100-plus commissioned colour photos.

This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Leonardo expert Martin Kemp.

The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture. The only book to include the restored Sistine Chapel and last judgement paintings along with Michaelangelo's complete sculpture, painting, and architecture.

Looks at the major events in Leonardo's life: from his early childhood to his apprenticeship with Verrocchio and then the setting up of his own workshop in Florence, before leaving for Milan where his patron was Ludovico Sforza ('Il Moro' - the Moor).

The Italian Renaissance was an unparalleled era of creativity, particularly in the field of painting. It witnessed the rediscovery of naturalistic techniques and new interest in portraiture and landscape. This book reproduces many paintings by artists such as Raphael and Titian.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. Including details of Leonardo's masterworks, this publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.

Patronage has been established as one of the dominant social processes of pre-industrial Europe. This collection examines the role it played in the Italian Renaissance, focusing particularly on Florence.