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BERNINI 384 pages, hardcover 11 ¼ 5 9 ½ in $60.00 88-99765-56-9 isbn:ISBN 978-88-99765-56-9

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Bernini

edited by Andrea Bacchi and Anna Coliva

Gianlorenzo Bernini’s (1598–1680), architect, painter, but above all sculptor, had a career that spanned almost seventy-five years. He worked under six different popes and was instrumental in the making of Baroque Rome, from the colonnade of St. Peter to the fountains in piazza Navona and piazza di Spagna, from the many stunning sculptural groups in the churches and palaces of Rome to the dozens of “speaking portraits” of cardinals, popes, kings and intellectuals of his times. The Galleria Borghese, home of many works by Bernini, including some of his world-famous groups such as Apollo and Daphne, The Rape of Proserpina and the David, hosts a major exhibition on the sculptures of Bernini. Exceptional in scope and scholarship, the catalogue analyses many different aspects of Bernini’s output, focusing on the many innovations he introduced. It also devotes studies to the critical reception of Bernini and to his relationships with friends and patrons (a biographical dictionary at the end of the book).

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James Gordon Harper James Gordon Harper

James Gordon Harper

THE BARBERINI TAPESTRIES

THE BARBERINI TAPESTRIES Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome

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The Barberini Tapestries Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome with a text by Marlene Eidelheit, photos by John Taylor and Dianne Dubler

This book is the first treatment of the tapestries of the Life of Christ, commissioned by Pope Urban VIII’s nephew Cardinal Francesco Barberini. Covering over 2800 square feet, the series is one of the grandest monuments of 17th century Rome. A close reading of each panel sets the tapestries into a number of contexts, including the stylistic advances of the high baroque and the political and social agendas of the patron. The introduction lays out the context of Urban VIII’s Rome. Subsequent chapters reconstruct the history of Cardinal Barberini’s private manufactory and the activity of G. F. Romanelli, the designer of the set. The use and display of the series in the time of the Barberini are also treated, as is the transfer of the series to the US and its display in New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, against the backdrop of the history of collecting in America’s “gilded age.” The final chapter discusses technical aspects of the panels and recounts their recent conservation.

Federica Mancini dessins italiens du musée du louvre

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génoisdu xvie- xviie siècle

dessins génois xvi e -xviii e siècle

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Genoese Drawings 16th–18th century Since 1972, the Prints and Drawings Department of the Musée du Louvre has been publishing the catalogues raisonné of its Italian drawings. This volume is dedicated to Genoese drawings fro the 16th to the 18th century.

Genoa was an independent republic, open to trade and with a vigorous economy, and this condition allowed the birth of local art school permeated by a variety of foreign influences presente in the city. The renown of its school soon spread behind its borders and several Genoese painters had important careers in other cities.

The book catalogues and illustrates the 500 drawings held in the Louvre’s collections, with works—marked by an elegant and refined style spanning over three centuries—by Luca Cambiaso, Andrea and Ottavio Semino, Giovanni Battista Castello, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Giulio Benso, Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari, Bernardo Strozzi, Bartolomeo Biscaino, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Domenico Piola and the De Ferraris.

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Donatella Calabi

Venice and its Jews 500 Years since the Founding of the Ghetto Translated by Lenore Rosenberg

Donatella Calabi

VENICE AND ITS JEWS

500 Years Since the Founding of the Ghetto

208 pages, paparback 7.5 5 4.75 in 24 col. + 8 b&w illustrations $16.95 isbn:ISBN 978-88-99765-29-3 88-99765-29-3

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Venice: 500 years ago by order of the Senate the first ghetto was born. It was the first of many “Jewish enclosures”.

A place to confine, it soon became an important cosmopolitan and commercial center of the Republic. The architectural structure of its housing, which became extraordinarily high to accommodate the increasing number of inhabitants, is strictly interlaced with the history, economy and culture of Venice. The city played a crucial role in the Jewish world, in the exchanges throughout the Mediterranean and in Italian art and culture.The Venetian word geto. from gettare, to throw away, named the area of Venice where foundries’ scraps were accumulated.

This was the area assigned to the Jews. The word, in the course of time, has become a synonym for segregation.

Donatella Calabi has been professor of History of the City and its Territory at the IUAV University of Venice for thirty years (1974-2014).

Renzo Mongiardino RENZO MONGIARDINO – ROOMSCAPES

RENZO MONGIARDINO

ROOMSCAPES

Roomscapes

“Leaving aside personal facts and clearing the field of memories, the subject of Mongiardino cannot be filed away amid the silence of the historians of architecture and the cult of the disciples. It is a necessary to have at hand the instruments that serve to avoid those superlatives that cover empty criticism.

Almost as if it were a master-key, the traditional praise of the artisans who, day after day, followed the career of the architect paved with success can no longer be used. Hand in hand with this success there was an exclusion from history, the like of which has no comparison. At most a mention among fashionable trends of the period. And what is the reason for this? No public buildings? No enlistment in the ranks of Rationalism, and of Postmodernism then? The sin of having worked in the houses of some of most powerful people in the world? Why did this not happen to Tommaso Buzzi? Or why is it not happening to Peter Marino? What a subject for a contemporary Francis Haskell.”

The Decorative Architecture of Renzo Mongiardino Preface by Giovanni Agosti

Mongiardino (1916–1998) is universally acclaimed as one of the greatest architects of interiors of the 20th century. His clientele included many distinguished families such as the Agnellis, Rotschilds, ThyssenBornemiszas, Radziwills, Zanussos, and modern couturiers like Versace, Valentino, and Jil Sander.

Roomscapes, originally published in 1993 and long out of print, is not only a beautiful testament to Mongiardino’s imaginific creations, the magnificent rooms he re-shaped and decorated in ancient Italian and Parisian palaces, English houses, New York apartments, but it is an important text that analyses space, function, decoration and lighting of rooms. It is meant as a guide to conceive spaces that are inhabited through time and by time. Sketches, drawings, and models by Mongiardino, next to the images of the finished rooms, make the creative process clear and showcase his extraordinary ability and taste.

Giovanni Agosti

RENZO MONGIARDINO ARCHITETTURA DA CAMERA

240 pages, hardcover with jacket 11.24 5 9 ½ in $60.00 isbn: 978-88-97737-76-6

“The mention of Mongiardino still elicits instant reverence. With his alchemic blurring of eras, the sheer scope and committment of his massive projects and insistence on valuing ambience above so-called authenticity, he attained mythic stature.”

The New York Times Style Magazine

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Robert J. Ross

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—bryan Christy, Director, Special Investigations Unit, National Geographic

A Long Way from Anywhere

The Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania is one of the last remaining great wilderness

areas in Africa. Encompassing more area than Switzerland and proclaimed a

UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, the Selous is Africa’s oldest and largest protected area and remains one of the continent’s greatest undisturbed ecosystems.

Teeming with life—including elephants, giraffe, more lions than any other protected area on the continent, large packs of wild dogs and vast herds of buffalo—the Selous

texts by Rolf D. Baldus, Waler R. Jubber, and Benson O. Kibonde

is a crown jewel of biodiversity and wilderness preservation.

The Selous in Africa: A Long Way From Anywhere by Robert J. Ross, features nearly 400 photographs of this extraordinary place. Not only the large mega-fauna

typically seen in a photographic book on African wildlife, but also the fantastic and often overlooked smaller creatures, birds, insects, and dramatic landscapes are captured in these breathtaking images.

Original essays on the history and ecology of the Selous as well as words focused on the clear and present threats facing the Game Reserve including elephant poaching and human encroachment are complimented by generous excerpts from Sand Rivers, Peter Matthiessen’s beautifully written book about a safari he undertook in the Selous. But the story of the Selous Game Reserve is best experienced through Ross’ photography. Culled from more than 100,000 photographs shot over four years, the images offer an intimate glimpse into the

“The Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania is Africa’s oldest and largest protected area. Proclaimed in 1896, and bigger than Switzerland, the Selous is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Selous remains one of Africa’s largest and greatest undisturbed ecosystems, teeming with life including one of the two largest elephant populations remaining on the African continent, probably half of all of the wild dogs in Africa, vast herds of buffalo as well as more lions than any other protected area on the continent as reported

by National Geographic in August 2013. The game reserve is becoming more important by the day as the pressure on elephants and other species grows—problems that are addressed here in this book. New-York born photographer Rob Ross has spent much of the past four years photographing in this vast and difficult to access reserve. He has compiled more than 100,000 images showing all aspects of the reserves varied landscapes, seasons, flora and large and small fauna. The spectacular large-format photography book features a selection of the very best images including landscapes, wildlife portraits and behavior, night photography, impressionist style work and breath-taking aerials.

diverse landscapes, flora, and fauna to be found in this cherished reserve.

“The African elephant, an iconic symbol of Africa’s extraordinary natural wealth, is being liquidated across the continent by a corrupt few who seek profit from

an illegal ivory trade, which impoverishes us all. This bloody violence respects neither the sanctity of Africa’s National Parks nor the global importance of a

magnificent World Heritage Site such as the Selous. Enjoy this book and share it,

RobeRT J. Ross

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“The Selous was my very first Africa experience, and it remains my favorite.

Robert J. Ross’s extraordinary photographs take us into a natural world unlike any other on earth.

A world of elephants. Of wild dogs.

Of nature as it should be, can be, might be—if we keep these breathtaking images firmly in mind.

A triumph!” Bryan Christy, Director, Special Investigations Unit, National Geographic “Selous is also a record of what is at stake, a set of portraits of the extraordinary wildlife we are losing. One senses, more strongly than in other books of this kind, that Ross wants to bring us into a fast disappearing world and keep us there.”

The New York Review of Books “His (Ross’) stunning images inventory the magnificent biodiversity of the continent’s oldest protected wilderness as well as the threats it now faces.”

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for its message is important, and a reminder the natural world is ours to protect.”

—Alexander Rhodes, CEO, Stop Ivory

BURIED TREASURE

Ernest Beck and George E. Harlow

Buried Treasure

The Gillepsie Collection of Petrified Wood Preface by John Gillepsie, photography by John Taylor and Dianne Dubler

BURIED TREASURE

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This stunning book documents a collection of 66 extraordinary pieces of petrified wood, mainly from Western United States (Arizona, Oregon, Washington). Specially photographed they are shown in their entirety and in magnificent details. Petrified wood is formed from fallen trees that in absence of oxygen and microbes and with water containing minerals, through a replacement process called permineralization, slowly transform in visually spectacular fossils. But Nature often uses a paintbrush in its preservation magic, splashing the wooden canvas with an array of colors and hues before fixing it in matrix of hard durable quartz, thereby creating splendid works of art. Petrified wood has been found throughout the world, but actual petrified forests are truly noteworthy in the United States, the most famous being the Chinle Formation forest of Arizona.

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Laura Angelucci, Dominique Cordellier

L’Album des “Disegni di Antonio Pollaiuolo”

Dessins du musée du Louvre

L’album des « Disegni di A. Pollaiuolo (?) 1429 † 1498 »

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Marie-Pierre Salé

Eugène Delacroix | Carnet « des Pyrénées »

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Eugène Delacroix Carnet «des Pyrénées», 1845

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Eugène Delacroix

Carnet « des Pyrénées »

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Donated in 1922 to the Louvre by Léon Bonnat, these 23 drawings are one of the best ensemble of life studies of a model by a 15th-century Florentine artist. Despite being entitled after Pollaiuolo, modern critics have attributed it to Maso Finiguerra, goldsmith and niellist, but known to posterity for being credited by Vasari as the inventor of engraving. The booklet is reproduced here for the first time as a quasi-facsimile. The commentary that accompanies it presents the profile of the two artists and the relationship of the carnet to workshop practices. The analysis of the single drawings focuses on the images, materials and techniques.

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Eugène Delacroix, (1798-1863), France’s leading Romantic painter, spent the summer of 1845 in EauxBonnes, a little spa on the Atlantic side of the Pyrenees.

Struck by the grandiose sight of the mountains incumbent on the Ossau valley, Delacroix reproduced the landscapes – amongst his best – with quick pencil sketches and, in some cases, with watercolors. On the same sketchbook, he drew the traditional costumes of the inhabitants. Finally, upon his return in Paris, alerted by the novelist George Sand, he discovered the Ojibwe tribe.

Eleven of his members had been brought to Europe by American painter George Catlin and Delacroix was portrayed them on several pages of this carnet in moving sketches. The Carnet des Pyrenées was acquired by the Louvre in 2004 and classified as a “national treasure”.

Xavier Salmon

Livre de Croquis de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Dessins du musée du Louvre

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Le « Livre de croquis de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin »

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De Jacopo Bellini à Eugène Delacroix, six cents carnets d’artistes et albums de collectionneurs, conservés au musée du Louvre, permettent de mieux comprendre le processus créatif des maîtres qui les ont exécutés et d’apprécier le goût des amateurs qui se sont attachés à les constituer. Ces œuvres précieuses et fragiles demeurent pour la plupart méconnues.

Certaines d’entre elles, reproduites pour la première fois dans leurs dimensions d’origine, accompagnées d’une étude inédite, invitent désormais le public le plus large possible au plaisir de la découverte.

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (Paris, 1724-1780) was “never seen without a pencil in his hand, intent in sketching all that appeared in front of his eyes.” His Livre de Croquis (sketchbook )is a veritable chronicle of Parisian life in the 18th century. Compiled between 1760 and 1778 it contains views of the streets and monuments of the ville lumière, scenes at the theatre or of a grand ball, portraits of young workers writing, sewing or playing an instrument. Saint-Aubin’s minute annotations are deciphered and explained in the commentary volume.

The sketchbook, acquired from the heirs of Saint-Aubin, was guarded jealously in a private collection - and was, therefore, almost unknown – until 1941 when it was acquired by the Louvre. It has never before been reproduced in its entirety.

Connu sous le titre de « Carnet Groult », du nom de son propriétaire au début du xxe siècle, le livre de croquis de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) est un des joyaux des collections du musée du Louvre. Acquis en 1941, il n’avait jusqu’à ce jour jamais été intégralement reproduit et n’avait donné lieu à aucune étude exhaustive. Tout le génie du merveilleux dessinateur que fut Saint-Aubin marque pourtant chacune des pages de ce petit ouvrage, véritable invitation à redécouvrir le Paris du xviiie siècle et ses figures demeurées plus ou moins familières.

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Peintre, 1760-1778

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2 volumes ne pouvant être vendus séparément i. « fac-similé » du carnet ii. étude par Xavier Salmon

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giuliano da sangallo

giuliano da sangallo

480 pages, paperback 10 5 8 in $55.00 isbn: 978-88-99765-20-0 texts in Italian, English, ISBNand 88-99765-20-0 French, German

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Giuliano da Sangallo edited by Amedeo Belluzzi, Caroline Elam, Francesco Paolo Fiore

Giuliano da Sangallo (1443–1516) was the head of a dynasty of Florentine architects which played a central role in the development of Renaissance architecture.

Giuliano introduced many innovations that were developed further by Bramante, Michelangelo and Palladio.

For Lorenzo il Magnifico he built the “humanistic” Villa of Poggio a Caiano, in which he was the first to employ the façade of a classical temple in a residential architecture, a model that will lasts for at least three centuries. His church of Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato remains one of the key examples of the central-plan Renaissance church. Giuliano’s buildings––fortresses, palaces, villas and churches––can be found in Savona, Pisa, Florence, Prato, Loreto, Rome and Naples. In the Eternal City, with the help of his nephew Antonio the Younger, he was instrumental in the building of the new basilica of St. Peter and of Palazzo Farnese.

Jefferson and Palladio JEFFERSON AND PALLADIO

Constructing a New World

edited by Guido Beltramini and Fulvio Lenzo Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), a cosmopolitan figure with rural roots, was a master of the knowledge of his time.

He drafted The Declaration of Independence (1776), and thus founded a new view of the proper relation between governed and government.

Jefferson was the architect of the new America, not just in a political sense, but in a literal sense as well. Architecture had an important place in his personal and public agenda.

Jefferson was guided by his admiration for Palladio’s Four Books on Architecture, which provided him with key architectural forms and ideas. Palladio showed him how the admired building types of the ancient Romans could be adapted to modern purposes and provide a rational, harmonious framework for living and for building a new society.

This exhibition lets us see that Jefferson was not only an extraordinary political figure, but also a great and influential architect.

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Thomas Jefferson throughout his life practiced architecture, in the public domain (Virigina State Capitol, the University of Virginia campus) and private (Monticello, Bremo). Jefferson was guided by his admiration for Palladio’s Four Books on Architecture, which provided him with key architectural forms and ideas. Palladio showed him how the admired building types of the ancient Romans could be adapted to modern purposes and provide a rational, harmonious framework for living and for building a new society. The book shows us that Jefferson was not only an extraordinary political figure, but also a great and influential architect.

JEFFERSON AND PALLADIO constructing a new world

176 pages, paperback 11 5 8.25 in, 32 col. pl. and 114 b&w ill. $29.90

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“Jefferson’s Virginia Capitol in Richmond defines what will become the prototype of the seat of government in the New World: an ancient temple … remodeled as the space for the new democracy.”

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The Berenson collecTion aT i TaTTi

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The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti Cover: Giambono, Saint Michael Archangel (Pl. 41)

edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls

The Bernard and Mary Berenson collecTion of european painTings aT i TaTTi Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls

824 pages, hardcover 10 5 12 in, 400 col. ill. $145.00 isbn: 978-88-97737-63-6

The fully illustrated scientific catalog of the collection of Bernard Berenson, the major American art historian of the 20th century, held at Villa I Tatti.

Edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti surveys the 149 works assembled by the Berensons for their home in Florence from the late 1890s through the first decades of the twentieth century at the time that they were making their mark on the world as connoisseurs. The catalog presents a privileged window on the Berensons’ intellectual interests through the objects they owned. The entries, written by an international team of art historians, take full advantage of the extensive correspondence from the Berensons’ friends, family, and colleagues at I Tatti as well as the couple’s diaries and notations on the backs of their vast gathering of photographs. All the entries are lavishly illustrated with full scholarly and technical accountings of the objects. There are also 17 illustrated reconstructions of the original contexts of panel paintings. The catalog includes essays on the progress of the Berensons’ collecting, their love for Siena, the Sienese forger Icilio Federico Joni, the critic Roger Fry, and René Piot’s murals at I Tatti, as well as a listing of more than 100 pictures that were once at I Tatti including donations made to museums in Europe and America.

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a token of elegance

Martin Barnes Lorber and Rebecca McNamara

A Token of Elegance

A Token of Elegance: Cigarette Holders in Vogue showcases a select group of about 125 cigarette holders from the unique collection of Carolyn Hsu-Balcer. Rare, oneof-a-kind, exquisite and luxurious, these small gems of design represent the artistry of the finest artisans and jewelers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Cigarette Holders in Vogue

Fabergé, Cartier, Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels, Alfred Dunhill, Buccellati —all are represented here in specially commissioned photography by masters John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler that makes these diminutive objects pop off the pages with brilliant color and form. Within these pages are early nineteenth-century cigarette holders, Princess Margaret’s well-used enameland-amber cigarette holder; and disposable holders given as promotional gifts by the top nightclubs of Roaring Twenties New York.

photography by John Taylor and Dianne Bubler

a token of elegance cigarette holders in vogue martin barnes lorber – rebecca mcnamara ph oto g r a ph y by j o h n b i g e low tay lo r a n d d i a n n e d u b l e r

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192 pages, hardcover with jacket 9.75 5 10 in, 137 col. pl. and 43 ill. $50.00 isbn: 978-88-97737-62-9

“Designer and collector Carolyn Hsu-Balcer’s impressive and informative cigarette holder collection will get the recognition that it deserves” Artnet News

This book showcases a select group of nearly 140 cigarette holders from the unique collection of Carolyn Hsu-Balcer. Rare, one-of-a-kind, exquisite and luxurious, these small gems of design represent the artistry of the finest artisans and jewelers of the 19th and 20th centuries.Fabergé, Cartier, Tiffany, Buccellati—all are represented here in specially commissioned photography.

The book’s illustrated essay takes the reader through the history of smoking, but is mainly focused on smoking’s accoutrements as expressions of the day’s dominant design trends, from sinuous Art Nouveau to the costume jewelry craze to sleek midcentury black, and more.

The book’s illustrated essay written by Asian arts specialist Martin Barnes Lorber and rising art and design writer Rebecca McNamara—takes the reader through the history of smoking from its pre-Columbian roots in the Americas, where it was a sacred ritual, through to the present-day worldwide e-cigarette craze. Entertaining and informative, the essay keeps its artistic eye focused on smoking’s accoutrements as expressions of the day’s dominant design trends, from sinuous Art Nouveau to the costume jewelry craze to sleek midcentury black, and more.

Ursula Ilse-Neuman

Multiple Exposures Jewelry and Photography

Multiple Exposures is the catalog for the exhibition held at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York in 2014, the first to study the use of photographic images by jewelers.

256 pages, hardcover 10 5 11 in, 250 col. pl. and 10 b&w $49.95 isbn: 978-88-97737-29-2 ISBN: 978-88-97737-29-2

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The works included, both historical pieces and recent creations by over eighty international art jewelers, traverse a remarkably wide range, from traditional and even sentimental formats (such as the locket) to entirely new formats, realized with a great diversity of materials and innovative jewelry-making approches.

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Roy Lichtenstein Between Sea and Sky

Between Sea and Sky

112 pages, hardcover 8.25 5 11 in, 31 col. pl. and 60 ill. $40.00 isbn: 978-88-97737-66-7

In 1964, Lichtenstein began to explore the genre of seascape, using both paint, plastic, enamel, drawings, collage, print and even film to realize his various works.

Guild Hall hosted an extraordinary gathering of these work beginning with his Pop-inspired explorations of setting suns, a recreation of his since destroyed Super Sunset billboard commission (1967). Optical collages and films from the mid to late 1960s, his gently calibrated brushstroke water views in paintings and prints of the 1980s culminating with his 1990s water lily series in homage to the Nymphéas of Claude Monet.

The publication includes an interview to Lichtenstein’s assistant, James de Pasquale, on his recollections of working with the artist on his landscapes in his studio in Southampton.

Phyllis Tuchman

Robert Motherwell The East Hampton Years, 1944-1951

“An effective portrait of the artist … it posits Motherwell as an overlooked innovator rather than a follower” The New York Times

120 pages, hardcover 8.25 5 11 in, 40 col. pl. and 10 ill. $45.00 isbn: 978-88-97737-34-6

The book is a monograph dedicated to Robert Motherwell, pioneering Abstract Expressionist, who enjoyed early recognition: at 29 years, he had his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery; a year later he moved to East Hampton, New York. None of the exhibitions dedicated to Motherwell have focused on this period. He produced paintings, collages, and drawings that brought abstraction into the lingua franca of art created on the American side of the Atlantic. Motherwell possessed a Minimalist sensibility and many of his finest works from this period have only a few colors and shapes.

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Michele Paoli

De Paris et d’ailleurs

Il n’est pas facile d’identifier au premier coup d’œil l’élément caractérisant qui unifie, en une série construite et close, les photographies de Michel Paoli : leur sujet, leur cachet, leur tonalité chromatique, ou les angles, les cadrages.

Ce n’est qu’après les avoir observées attentivement l’une après l’autre et les avoir parcourues toutes plusieurs fois que l’on saisit un fait surprenant : cet élément caractérisant existe bel et bien dans les photos, mais il leur est extérieur, il est éloigné des images mais proche de celui qui les regarde, peut-être même dans les yeux de ce dernier.

photographies | fotografie | photographs 1985-2015

MICHEL PAOLI | DE PARIS E T D’AILLEUR S

Photographies | fotografie | photographies 1985-2015 preface by Edoardo Albinati

Non è a prima vista facile individuare il tratto che unifica, in una serie compiuta, le fotografie di Michel Paoli. Per soggetto o timbro o tono coloristico, per taglio o inquadratura.

Solo dopo averle guardate attentamente una per una e scorse tutte insieme più volte, si coglie un fatto sorprendente: e cioè che quel tratto nelle fotografie esiste, sì, ma è esterno a esse, lontano dalle immagini ma assai vicino a chi le guarda, o forse nei suoi stessi occhi.

Michel Paoli’s eye records each and every manifestation of beauty it stumbles upon: from the visages of kids immersed in reading to the supine bodies of bathers, from the bales of hay on Tuscan hills to the fleeting legs of Parisian passersby.

This collection of 120 images focuses on Paris and Montmartre, Les Petites-Dalles and France, in a lesser measure, on Italy and other countries such as Brasil.

Michel Paoli, born in Montmartre (Paris) in 1966, is professor of Italian Literature and Civilizaton at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens. His main field of study is the Renaissance and he has written on Leon Battista Alberti and Ariosto.

At first glance, it is no easy task to determine what binds the photographs of Michel Paoli into a complete series, whether that link is their subject, tone, angle or framing. Only after having looked at them closely one by one and viewed them as a whole several times do we grasp a surprising fact: the link does exist in the photographs, but it is outside of them, far from the images but up close to the viewer, or perhaps in the their eyes.

Edoardo Albinati

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MICHEL PAOLI | DE PARIS E T D’AILLEUR S photographies | fotografie | photographs 1985-2015

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Thom Gilbert

Soul

Memphis’ Original Sound foreword by Dan Aykroyd

256 pages, hardcover 9.5 5 12 in, 167 col. and b&w pl. $65.00 isbn: 978-88-97737-47-6

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Photographer Thom Gilbert set up a photo studio at the Royal Studios in Memphis, home of the famed Hi Records that launched the careers of Al Green, Ann Peebles, and dozens of others, and photographed the soul music royalty. Bobby «Blue» Bland in his signature nautical cap, several of the Hodges brothers who make up the incomparable Hi Rhythm Section were on hand, Stax Records musicians Bobby Manuel, Lester Snell were actually recording, but pausing to have their portraits taken. He also shooted what seems like every living person related to Memphis soul music: from Rev. Jesse Jackson to Sam Moore of the indelible soul duo Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Steve Cropper, B.B. King, Bobby Rush, and many others.

Michèle Sacquin and Pierre Rosenberg

The Well-Read Cat A wonderful selection for all who love cats and books.

212 pages, hardcover 6.5 5 9.5 in, 135 col. pl. and 10 b&w $24.95 isbn: 978-88-89854-56-3

From medieval manuscript to Japanese prints, from Steinlen’s splendid drawings to 17th century prints, the author introduces the reader to the hundreds of books and manuscripts (belonging to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris) in which the lovely feline is represented. The cat has been the main character of many tales, but also the inhabitant of the most diverse books: from natural histories to household manuals, from medieval prayer books to famous writers’ manuscripts.

Paola Gallerani

The Menagerie of Pieter Boel Animal Painter in the Age of Louis XIV A great gift for animal lovers, this book presents 40 works of Pieter Boel (1626-1674).

88 pages, hardcover 11.8 5 9.8 in, 47 col. pl. and 3 b&w $29.95 isbn: 978-88-89854-74-7

Diane Lovejoy

Cat Lady Chronicles “This delightfully candid, witty memoir about cat love gone mad will appeal to readers of every stripe.”

Houston Pet Talk

160 pages, hardcover 6.75 5 9.5 in, 32 col. pl. and 12 b&w $21.99 isbn: 978-88-89854-98-3

Paola Gallerani (text) and Gabriella Gallerani (illustrations)

Alphacat “Beautifully rendered in full color” CatFancy.com “Impressive coffee table volume” Dayton Ohio Daily News 128 pages, hardcover 8.25 5 11 in, 28 col. pl. and 10 b&w $19.95 isbn: 978-88-97737-17-9

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Rab Hatfield was born in 1937 in New York City. He received his higher education at Harvard and the University of Munich. From 1966 to 1971 he taught at Yale and from 1971 to 2012 at Syracuse University in Florence. A three-time Fellow of Villa I Tatti, he has also been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His recent books are The Wealth of Michelangelo (2002); Finding Leonardo: The Case for Recovering the Battle of Anghiari (2007); and Botticelli and Herbert Horne, of which he was the editor and to which he contributed an essay on Botticelli’s Primavera (2009). He is also the author of a recent essay on Michelangelo’s fortifications that appeared in Michelangelo e il linguaggio dei disegni di architettura, edited by Golo Maurer and Alessandro Nova (2012). Now retired, Professor Hatfield lives outside of Florence.

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THE THREE MONA LISAS

In this study Rab Hatfield provides a thorough, no-nonsense analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or La Gioconda. The book begins with a consideration of the generally known sources and documents and a careful look at the painting as we know it now. There follow discussions of rarely examined laboratory photographs and of a recently discovered annotation by Ser Agostino Vespucci in a book he owned of letters by Cicero, from which we learn that Leonardo left a portrait of “Lisa del Giocondo” unfinished no later than October 1503.

The book concludes with a hitherto unknown letter written in 1515 by Filippo Strozzi to Lorenzo de’ Medici, Captain General of the Florentine Armies and soon to become Duke of Urbino, describing some supposed advances these two men made to Mon(n)a Lisa. The laboratory photographs and newly discovered sources make it clear that the Mona Lisa has probably been reworked twice, that it in fact depicts Mon(n)a Lisa del Giocondo, and that it would be better if we spoke of it as La Gioconda rather than the Mona Lisa.

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What do we really know about Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or La Gioconda?

Why is it known by two different names? Does it show the likeness of a real person?

If so, do we really know who she is and why Leonardo should have painted her?

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Rab Hatfield

Waxing Eloquent

Italian Portraits in Wax

Saint Anne

The Three Mona Lisas

edited by Vincent Delieuvin

A new reading of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece La Gioconda, certainly the most famous painting in art history.

“Fascinating exhibition...[The] busts are so realistic that they appear unreal... as if escaped from a scene of Barry Lyndon” Le Figaro

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Ultimate Masterpiece

edited by Andrea Daninos

Books in French Giotto e compagni edited by Dominique Thiébaut dessins du louvre

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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt edited by Guilhem Scherf and Maria Pötzl-Malikova

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Parmigianino

Dessins du Louvre

edited by Dominique Cordellier

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Méroé

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Catherine Loisel

Dessins bolonais du xviie siècle 576 pages, hardcover $135.00 isbn: 978-88-89854-88-4

Anne Varick-Lauder

Battista Franco 416 pages, hardcover $140.00 isbn: 978-88-89854-45-7

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Françoise Viatte

Masques Mascarades Mascarons

320 pages, hardcover $110.00 isbn: 978-88-89854-63-1

edited by Françoise Viatte, Dominique Cordellier and Violaine Jeammet

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Baccio Bandinelli

SOCCER

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GIORGIO MARTIGNONI ROBERTO RONCHI

SOCCER

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Giorgio Martignoni (text) and Roberto Ronchi (illustrations)

Libby Gleeson (text) and Freya Blackwood (illustrations)

A Surprise for Lady Lily

Look, A BOOK!

Watch: Soccer 144 pages, hardcover 7.5 5 11.5 in $29.95 isbn: 978-88-97737-43-8

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A threatening shadow looms over the piglets Squiggly and Piggly and the bunnies Hip and Hop as they play in the farm…

It’s Howie, the wolf-cub, looking for friends “for snack time”!

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Howie

A story full of suspense that unfolds to reveal that wolves aren’t always big or bad!

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He wakes up late, he falls asleep in school and his favorite pastime is taking an afternoon nap: who is he? A dormouse? A bat?

No, it is Howie, a little wolf who doesn’t want to go to sleep… at night!

What keeps him awake, and, more importantly, how to convince him to go to sleep when the moon shines in the night sky?

The animals in the forest are desperate, a good idea must be found…

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All Aboard with Johanna!

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Amélie Galé (text) and Jack Tow (illustrations)

Amélie Galé (text) and Jack Tow (illustrations)

Up All Night with Howie

Who’s Afraid of Howie?

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