Jost Amman's Renaissance Woodcuts CD-ROM and Book


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The only Jost Amman collection available in any form, this set draws primarily from the Renaissance woodcut master's most important works: Book of Trades and A Little Book of Art. Over 280 intricate images of knights, Turks, printmakers, sensual females, mythological figures, peasants, clergymen, and more offer definitive representations of Renaissance trades and professions.




European Drawings


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Anatomical and Medical Illustrations


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This outstanding collection offers a fascinating, visually encyclopedic exploration of the body and the healing arts. In addition to hundreds of outstanding anatomical engravings, it features images from the general realm of medicine, including diseases and treatments. Artists, designers, students, medical professionals, and historians will find it an indispensable reference.










The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal


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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 18 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 18 includes articles written by Anthony Cutler, David A. Scott, Maya Elston, Ranee Katzenstein, Ariane can Suchtelen, Klaus Fittschen, Peggy Fogelman, and Catherine Hess.







Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft


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244 representations, symbols, and manuscript pages of devils and death from Ancient Egypt to 1913. Fascinating graphics depict demons, witches, and warlocks, more. Works by Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, Rembrandt, others.




Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter


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In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best appreciated in the context of humour.