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The Lost Battles
The Lost Battles
Written by Jonathan Jones
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307594754
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The Lost Battles
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Written by Jonathan Jones


Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $35.00

From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine... Read more >
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The Lost Battles
The Lost Battles
Written by Jonathan Jones
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307961013
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The Lost Battles
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Written by Jonathan Jones


Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $17.99

From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine... Read more >
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Sacred Trash
Sacred Trash
Written by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780805242584
Our Price: $26.95
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Sacred Trash
The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Written by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $26.95

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the...

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Master of Shadows
Master of Shadows
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307387356
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Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $17.00

Although his popularity is eclipsed by Rembrandt today, Peter Paul Rubens was revered by his contemporaries as the greatest painter of his era, if not of all history.  His undeniable artistic genius, bolstered by a modest disposition and a reputation as a man of tact and discretion, made him a favorite...

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Master of Shadows
Master of Shadows
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385532235
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Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster


Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $14.99

Although his popularity is eclipsed by Rembrandt today, Peter Paul Rubens was revered by his contemporaries as the greatest painter of his era, if not of all history.  His undeniable artistic genius, bolstered by a modest disposition and a reputation as a man of tact and discretion, made him a favorite...

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Dark Water
Dark Water
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780767926492
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Dark Water
Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
Written by Robert Clark


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00

Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.

Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the... Read more >
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The Unknown Hieronymus Bosch
The Unknown Hieronymus Bosch
Written by Kurt Falk
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556437595
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The Unknown Hieronymus Bosch

Written by Kurt Falk


Format: Trade Paperback, 116 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $29.95

The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) have captivated and confounded observers for centuries, leading to wildly varying conclusions on the artist’s spirituality. Kurt Falk presents the first analysis of Bosch’s inner life in light of a hitherto unknown—and now lost—version of one of his seminal works, The Last Judgment, found by... Read more >
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