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Leonardo: The Last Supper

By: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla; Marani, Pietro C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press: 2001

Seller ID: 030310

ISBN: 0226504271

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

458pp. Beige Cloth, black lettering. 382 color plates and 64 halftones. New in New Jacket, in pictorial slipcase. "Between 1494 and 1498, Leonardo da Vinci painted one of the great Western masterpieces directly onto the wall of the refectory of the Santa Maria Della Grazie church in Milan and it immediately started to deteriorate. Leonardo: The Last Supper documents the process by which, after nearly 500 years and various 'restorations,' conservators attempted to get the work as close as possible to its original state."
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Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia

By: Connolly, Thomas

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 022965

ISBN: 0300059019

Binding: Hardcover

xv, 365p. A fine copy, in a fine d.j.
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Lucian Freud. Naked Portraits. Works From the 1940s to the 1990s

By: Freud, Lucian

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Hatje Cantz: 2001

Seller ID: 028482

ISBN: 3775790438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

327pgs. color illustrations. New in new jacket, in original shrinkwrap. Text in German and English. Lucian Freud was the grandson of Sigmund Freud.The work explores the artist's focus on nude portraits of women and men. According to Edward Chaney, "The distinctive, recumbent manner in which Freud poses so many of his sitters suggests the conscious or unconscious influence both of his grandfather's psychoanalytical couch and of the Egyptian mummy, his dreaming figures, clothed or nude, staring into space until (if ever) brought back to health and/or consciousness. The particular applicatio...
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The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art

By: J. Michael; Princeton University; Childs

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Art Museu: 2003

Seller ID: 024977

ISBN: 0943012406

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

406pgs. French pictorial wraps. light corner wear.crease to lower left corner of rear panel. internally fine copy. "Understanding the phenomenon of combining human and animal elements into composite creatures is central to our knowledge of the Greek imagination. This landmark book is the first to investigate representations of these human animals in early Greek art (ca. 750-450 B.C.)."
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The Arthurian Handbook

By: Lacy, Norris J. And Geoffrey Ashe

Price: $32.00

Publisher: N.Y., Garland Publishing: 1988

Seller ID: 017033

ISBN: 0824079418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xiii, [xx], 455p. A very good copy, the top edges are spotted and the back cover is slightly dust-soiled, no d.j.
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Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts (Princeton Legacy Library)

By: Roston, Murray

Price: $50.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Princeton University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 025133

ISBN: 0691066833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

400pgs. black boards, silver lettering. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the insights such comparison offers.
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Jewish Women: A World of Tradition and Change

By: Roth, Joan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: No Place, Jolen Press: 1995

Seller ID: 019761

ISBN: 0942160126

Binding: Cloth

240p. A near fine copy, with an inscription (by no one connected with the book) on the front free endpaper, in a near fine d.j.
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Women's Interpreters of the Visual Arts, 1820-1979

By: Sherman, Claire Richter and Adele M. Holcomb (editors)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Westport, Conn, Greenwood Press: 1981

Seller ID: 021660

ISBN: 0313220565

Binding: Cloth

xxiv, 487p. A fine copy, in a good d.j. with a dime-sized tear at the top of the front cover.
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Smile: A Picture History of Olympic Park, 1887-1965

By: Siegel, Alan

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 028986

ISBN: 0813522552

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

176pgs. Stiff pictorial wraps. 100's of photos illustrations throughout. light corner wear, otherwise as new. "In Smile, Alan A. Siegel chronicles the evolution of Olympic Park from a den of hedonism and intoxication in the 1880s into Essex County's most popular family entertainment site in the 1950s and 1960s. Under the fifty-year reign of Newark brewer Henry A. Guenther, millions of men, women, and children passed under the signs Smile and Learn to Play into what the legendary beer baron called a little bit of Coney Island, the circus, an old-fashioned beer garden, and Monte Carlo rolled...
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