Authors
- Julie Summers
- Ian Hislop
- Brian Harris
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £29.95
Price: £18.57
Review Remembered: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission / Merrell Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-07-01
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.53
Review Out of This Century: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
Edition: 6Rev Ed
Publication date: 2003-10-02
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.19
Review The New Home Plans Book / Ebury Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1991-03-28
Dewey code: 709.035
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.34
Review Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 729
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.43
Review Architectural Interiors: Hotels (Architectural Interiors) / Rotovision:
Publication date: 2004-06
Dewey code: 728.5
RRP: £18.95
Price: £8.40
Review Hip Hotels Beach (Hip Hotels) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-04-25
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £35.00
Price: £17.99
Review England's Lost Houses (From the Archives of "Country Life") (From the Archives of "Country Life") / Aurum Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-05-08
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.65
Review Brunelleschi's Dome / Vintage:Filippo Brunelleschi's design for the dome of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence remains one of the most towering achievements of Renaissance architecture. Completed in 1436, the dome remains a remarkable feat of design and engineering. Its span of over 140 feet exceeds St Paul's in London and St Peter's in Rome, and even outdoes the Capitol in Washington DC, making it the largest dome ever constructed using bricks and mortar. The story of its creation and its brilliant but "hot-tempered" creator is told in Ross King's delightful Brunelleschi's Dome. King has already established himself as an accomplished novelist, author of Domino, Ex-Libris, and the story of both dome and architect offer him plenty of rich material. The story of the dome goes back to 1296 when work began on the cathedral but it was only in 1420, when Brunelleschi won a competition over his bitter rival Lorenzo Ghiberti to design the daunting cupola, that work began in earnest. King weaves an engrossing tale from the political intrigue, personal jealousies, dramatic setbacks and sheer inventive brilliance that led to the paranoid Filippo, "who was so proud of his inventions and so fearful of plagiarism" finally seeing his dome completed only months before his own death. King argues that it was Filippo's improvised brilliance in solving the problem of suspending the enormous cupola in bricks and mortar (painstakingly detailed with precise illustrations) that led him to "succeed in performing an engineering feat whose structural daring was without parallel". He tells a compelling and informed story, ranging from discussions of the construction of the bricks, mortar and marble that made up the dome, to its subsequent use as a scientific instrument by the Florentine astronomer Paolo Toscanelli. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-09-10
RRP: £30.00
Price: £16.50
Review A Life of Picasso: 1881-1906 v. 1 (Pimlico) / Pimlico:
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £40.00
Price: £24.31
Review Adam Houses: From the Archives of "Country Life" / Aurum Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 620.11
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.17
Review Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment / Princeton Architectural Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-03-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.71
Review Caravaggio / Phaidon Press Ltd:Catherine Puglisi's magnificent book on Michelangelo Merisi, better known simply as Caravaggio begins with Caravaggio's beguiling self-portrait as Bacchus, painted around 1594 when the artist was in his early twenties. This is then dramatically contrasted with the devastating self-portrait of the artist as the severed head of John the Baptist, painted only 15 years later in 1610, the year of Caravaggio's untimely death. These two pictures frame the incredible career of one of the most brilliant and complex of all Baroque artists, which is comprehensively analysed in Puglisi's wonderful study. The book moves with great lucidity from Caravaggio's early success in Rome, to his exile in Malta and Sicily and his later astonishing religious paintings, undertaken in the dark years prior to his untimely death. Puglisi argues that Caravaggio was not the socially alienated painter that tradition has assumed, but that his highly innovative work took place within a deeply self-conscious awareness of contemporary developments within the composition of still life, portraiture, and devotional painting. What is so persuasive about Puglisi's argument is that, rather than diminish our sense of Caravaggio's originality, it only heightens our understanding of his brilliance in both composition and the use of light and colour. The final section of the book is particularly compelling in its account of Caravaggio's approach towards the composition of his work, as well as offering perceptive comments on the biographical assumptions which have grown up around the painter. Throughout, Puglisi's passion for the paintings shines through; the book is beautifully produced, with nearly 200 wonderful illustrations, most in colour, a fascinating appendix of contemporary documents on the painter's life, and a checklist of all of Caravaggio's work. Caravaggio is a splendid book, which is undoubtedly destined to become the standard work in English on one of the greatest painters of Renaissance Italy. -Jerry Brotton.
Authors
- Peter Neufert
- Ernst Neufert
- Nicholas Walliman
- Bousmaha Baiche
Publication date: 2002-07-01
Dewey code: 721
RRP: £47.99
Price: £41.43
Review Architects' Data / WileyBlackwell:
Authors
- Eddy Krygiel
- Greg Demchak
- Tatjana Dzambazova
Publication date: 2008-09-10
Dewey code: 720.2840285536
RRP: £31.99
Price: £18.71
Review Mastering Revit Architecture 2009 (Mastering) / Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd):
Publication date: 2007-11-19
Dewey code: 760
RRP: £22.95
Price: £6.00
Review The Fundamentals of Digital Art (Fundamentals) / AVA Publishing SA:
Authors
- Colin Michael Hines
- Keith Chetham
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.07
Review Art Deco London / Park House Press:
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Dewey code: 721
RRP: £30.00
Price: £19.80
Review The Book of the Edwardian and Inter-war House / Aurum Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-01-09
Price: £14.99
Review Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens / BBC Books:
Creator: Prince of Wales HRH Charles
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-02-03
Dewey code: 914.20486
RRP: £30.00
Price: £18.79
Review History and Landscape: The Guide to National Trust Properties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland / National Trust Books:
Edition: Taschen's 25th Anniversary Ed
Publication date: 2007-10-05
Dewey code: 712
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.00
Review Japanese Gardens (Taschen 25th Anniversary) / Taschen GmbH:
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