New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

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La Sala delle Carte geografiche
in Palazzo Vecchio
“Capriccio et invenzione
nata dal Duca Cosimo”
edited by Alessandro Cecchi
and Paola Pacetti
This edition shows the world as it was known
in the 16th century through the maps and images
of the Map Room in the Florentine Palazzo
Vecchio. Multidisciplinary studies examine the
53 panels depicting various countries as well as
the large central globe. The volume also refers to
various selections of marvelous or peculiar images
in the room’s decorations, which reflect the
cosmological view of the world and its history
during the time of Cosimo Medici I. Italian text.
288p, col illus, hardback, 9788856400458,
$53.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008,
La Reggia di Cosimo 1.
Histoire de l’histoire
de l’art septentrional
edited by Michèle-Caroline Heck
French text.
Content sections: I. L’art septentrional vu
par les théoriciens du Nord. II. Regards Croisés
– L’art septentrional vu de France et d’Italie. III.
L’art septentrional entre théorie et histoire
224p, 150 b/w illus, paperback, 9782503530932,
$95.00, Brepols Publishers, July 2009,
Art Theory (1400-1800).
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Auctions, Agents and Dealers
The Mechanisms of the Art Market 1660–1830
edited by Jeremy Warren and Adriana Turner
Paperback reprint edition. English, French and Italian text.
Contents: The Art Trade and its Urban Context; The Auction Duty Act of 1777;
The second-hand art market in Spain; The Market for Netherlandish Paintings
in Paris, 1750–1815; Le tableau et son prix à Paris, 1760–80; The System
Governing Appraised Value in Ancien Régime France; A case-study of an 18thcentury
Parisian auction; Pierre Sirois (1665–1726); Dr Richard Rawlinson
(1690–1755); Picture dealers in 18th-century London; Sir Godfrey Copley as
Patron and Consumer, 1685–1705; The career of Michael Bryan (1757–1821),
picture dealer extraordinaire; The German art market and connoisseurship in the
18th century; Il mercato artistico tra Venezia e Londra.
173p, illus, maps, tbls, paperback, 9781903767108, $50.00(s), Archaeopress, April 2009, Studies in the History of Collections III.
Elisabetta Rogai
Anatomie dell’anima
edited by Alice Barontini
This exhibition catalogue presents all of the works by Elisabetta
Rogai held by the city of Fiesole, showing the artist’s journey towards
both personal and professional maturity. Rogai’s paintings
and sketches depict a feminine universe of poetic individuality.
Italian and English text.
96p, col illus, paperback, 9788859605201, $26.50(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008.
New in paperback!
Caravaggio in Holland
Musik und Genre bei Caravaggio
und den Utrechter Caravaggisten
edited by Gabriel Dette, Bastian Eclercy and Jochen Sander
Caravaggio’s (ca. 1571–1610) spectacularly new way of painting was also
enthusiastically received by his Dutch contemporaries and inspired them
to new illustrative inventions. This catalog demonstrates how his followers
in Utrecht developed a new type of musicians’ portraits through dialog
with its Italian model. German text.
192p, 61 col pls, 61 col & 22 b/w illus, paperback, 9783777480657, $59.00(s),
Hirmer Verlag, June 2009.
Opus Incertum
Anno II, numero 4: Palazzi fiorentini del Rinascimento
edited by Brenda Preyer
Articles presented at the conference on Florentine Renaissance palaces held at the State Archives in Florence in 2005.
Various articles deal with architecture, façades, interior design, politics and style, all in relation to Renaissance palatial
edifices in Florence. Papers in Italian and English.
128p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788859605263, $30.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009